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Australian English Usage
Draft comparison of Australian, English and American vocabulary

Interesting English etymologies
Draft list of interesting etymologies in English

Britain makes countries confusing
Britain makes countries confusing

Approximations
Draft notes on approximation algorithms

Administrative regions
List of administrative regions by administrator

Australian manufacturing

 * Cars
 * Toyota makes some medium-large cars (such as Camry) in Altona, Victoria.
 * Holden and Ford make large cars at various factories around Australia.
 * Cleaning products
 * The Geelong Brush Company makes brooms and other brushware-- (in Geelong?).
 * Velvet soap is made by Unilever in ....
 * Solvol soap is made by the WD-40 company in ....
 * Clothing
 * See above
 * 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.
 * Dulux plant at Rocklea, QLD
 * Wattyl: Footscray, Vic, and Kilburne, SA. as of 2004.
 * Whitegoods
 * Electrolux makes make large refrigerators in Orange, New South Wales, under brands such as Westinghouse (licensed from Westinghouse Electric (1998)), Simpson and Kelvinator.
 * 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.
 * GlaxoSmithKline (Opium poppy)
 * Pfizer Australia (Three Australian manufacturing plants export $AUD835 million anually
 * Sigma (makes Herron brand; Victoria )
 * Sunscreen (Ego, Hamilton)
 * The following also "manufacture":
 * 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

Convergence proof techniques
Canonical forms of convergence proofs