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Australian English Usage

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Draft comparison of Australian, English and American vocabulary

Interesting English etymologies

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Draft list of interesting etymologies in English

Britain makes countries confusing

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Britain makes countries confusing

Approximations

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Draft notes on approximation algorithms

Administrative regions

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List of administrative regions by administrator

Australian manufacturing

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  • Cars
  • Cleaning products
  • Clothing
  • Food: Many staples are still manufactured in Australia. However many manufactured products such as sauces are imported.
  • Hardware
    • Some Dulux paint is made in Wellington.[1]
    • Dulux plant at Rocklea, QLD
    • Wattyl: Footscray, Vic, and Kilburne, SA. as of 2004.
  • Whitegoods
  • Pharmaceuticals
    • CSL has a plant in Parkville (doubled in capacity for $60 million in 2002) which makes CSL Biotherapies products such as Gardasil and Afluria, and a CSL Bioplasma plant in Broadmeadows which makes Q-Vax (for Q-Fever) and blood products. [3]
    • GlaxoSmithKline (Opium poppy)
    • Pfizer Australia (Three Australian manufacturing plants export $AUD835 million anually [4]
    • Sigma (makes Herron brand; Victoria [5])
    • Sunscreen (Ego, Hamilton)
    • The following also "manufacture":[6]
      • Symbion (Nature's Own; Queensland)
      • American Pharmaceutical Partners
      • Apotex
      • Apothecus Pharmaceutical Corp
      • AstraZeneca
      • Barakat Pharmaceutical Industries
      • Biovale Pharmaceuticals
      • Boehringer Ingelhiem
      • Bradley Pharmaceuticals
      • Cangene Pharmaceuticals
      • Chattem
      • Chemists' Own
      • Douglas Laboratories
  1. ^ "Dulux investing $28m in Hutt factory".
  2. ^ "Manufacturing - Electrolux and Geoff Hort Engineering". Orange City Council. Retrieved 30 January, 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  3. ^ "CSL Anual Report 2008" (PDF). Retrieved 7 March 2010.
  4. ^ http://www.pfizer.com.au. Retrieved 7 March 2010. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ "Herron to close Brisbane factory". Retrieved 7 March 2010.
  6. ^ "yahoo search". Retrieved 7 March 2010.

Convergence proof techniques

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Canonical forms of convergence proofs