1.  AN AUSTRALIAN state has proposed the country adopt a bill of rights and replace the Queen as head of state with an Australian president.

2.  Eastern Energy, the distributor that Texas Utilities is buying, is the third of five electricity companies to be sold this year by the Australian state of Victoria.

3.  Her campaign there was for uniformity in gun laws in all Australian states, as well as a ban on semiautomatic rifles and shotguns.

4.  In addition, power markets are forming in New Zealand, the Australian state of Victoria and the Canadian province of Alberta, Ruff said.

5.  In Australia, they exist not only in the sparsely settled Northern Territory but also in the far north of the Australian states of Queensland and Western Australia.

6.  It was Bideau who persuaded Freeman to move far south to Melbourne from Brisbane, the capital of the Australian state of Queensland in northeastern Australia.

7.  It would also include offshore facilities and a plant to supply gas to the Northern Territory and nearby Australian states.

8.  PowerNet Victoria, in the Australian state of Victoria, serves customers in an area slightly bigger than the state of Utah.

9.  Squads from five other Australian states are working with the local brigades, and offers of help have come from as far away as the United States.

10.  The couple will join finalists from other Australian states in the Miss Australia competition.