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From today's featured article  Sekai Holland, a prominent opponent of the centre during the 1970s, pictured in 2010 The Rhodesia Information Centre (RIC) represented the Rhodesian government in Australia from 1966 to 1980. As Australia did not recognise Rhodesia's independence it operated on an unofficial basis. The centre's activities included lobbying politicians, spreading propaganda supporting white minority rule in Rhodesia and advising Australian businesses on how they could evade the United Nations sanctions that had been imposed on the country. These activities violated United Nations Security Council resolutions. The RIC had little impact, with Australian media coverage of the Rhodesian regime being almost entirely negative and the government's opposition to white minority rule in Rhodesia hardening over time. The Australian government made several attempts to force the centre to close, all of which were unsuccessful. The Zimbabwean government shut the centre in May 1980 after the end of white minority rule and later established an official embassy in Australia. (Full article...)

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Ongoing:  Recent deaths&#58;   On this day September 4  Damage from the Canterbury earthquake in Christchurch <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"> <ul><li>Maria of Castile ( d. 1458)</li><li>Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester  ( d. 1588)</li><li>Konstantin Kalser  ( b. 1920)</li><li>Yoani Sánchez  ( b. 1975)</li></ul> More anniversaries: <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/> <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/> <h2 id="mp-tfl-h2" class="mp-h2">From today's featured list <div class="thumbinner mp-thumb" style="background: transparent; border: none; padding: 0; max-width: 173px;"> Tasmanian devil There are seventy-two extant dasyuromorphs, species in Dasyuromorphia, an order of mammals comprising most of the Australian carnivorous marsupials. Members include quolls, dunnarts, the numbat, the Tasmanian devil (example pictured), and the thylacine. They are found in Australia and New Guinea, generally in forests, shrublands, and grasslands, but also inland wetlands, deserts, and rocky areas. The seventy-two extant species of Dasyuromorphia are divided into two families: Dasyuridae, containing seventy-one species divided between the thirteen genera in the subfamily Dasyurinae and the four genera in the subfamily Sminthopsinae; and Myrmecobiidae, containing the numbat. There is additionally the family Thylacinidae, containing the extinct thylacine. (Full list...) Recently featured: <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/> <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/> <h2 id="mp-tfp-h2" class="mp-h2">Today's featured picture <h2 id="mp-other" class="mp-h2">Other areas of Wikipedia <h2 id="mp-sister" class="mp-h2">Wikipedia's sister projects <templatestyles src="Wikipedia's sister projects/styles.css" /> Wikipedia is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer projects:
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