51.  The NRA regards the laws of many Australian states, which require a license from the police to own a gun, as too restrictive.

52.  The premiers of the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Albania, Slovenia, Armenia and the Australian state of Victoria attended.

53.  The timber workers, who came from all six Australian states, blocked each of the six entrances by parking timber trucks across access roads.

54.  Two-time champion Queensland suffered its fifth straight defeat and the Australian state is out of semifinal contention.

55.  Western Australia was the only Australian state to have a trade office in India, Cowan said, and the first to open an advisory office in Madras.

56.  A second Australian state Monday disclosed a crack down on paedophiles in the classroom.

57.  An Indonesian ban on meat from the Australian state of New South Wales could be lifted as early as Thursday, state Agriculture Minister Richard Amery said Wednesday.

58.  Assisting a suicide is against the law in all Australian states and in Queensland the crime carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.

59.  Australian states were already competing to welcome the heroes home as Prime Minister Paul Keating congratulated the team.

60.  But she says guns easily obtainable in Tasmania could be easily transported between the Australian states.