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proposals in the 2008 Australian Federal budget included a A$3 billion increase in tax on alcopops?
the 1999 Sydney hailstorm is the costliest natural disaster in Australian history, causing over A$1.7 billion in insured damages?
the proposed Doncaster railway line, Melbourne, first planned in 1890, would cost around ten times as much to build now as the A$41 million estimated in 1972 when the route was decided?
when Townsville financial advice company Storm Financial collapsed in 2009, victims included cricketer Andrew Symonds, who lost at least AU$1 million?
in order to attract new residents to the town, the community of Greenethorpe, New South Wales, has developed a farmhouse rental scheme offering houses for rent at AU$1 per week?
during the first six years of the Australian edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? nobody won the top prize of one million dollars?
political donations in Australia up to $1500 were made tax-deductible in 2006?
businessman John Young migrated to Australia as a Ten Pound Pom, but was worth AU$184 million in 2006, although the company that made him rich is now insolvent?
despite $170m spent on security, Australian comedy group The Chaser managed to enter the restricted zone of the 2007 APEC Summit in a fake motorcade?
Australian Broadcasting Corporation cult film reviewer and war correspondent John Hinde (pictured) bequeathed AU$1 million to start a new Australian literary prize?

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