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BRISBANE, March 7 AAPAustralia has seen its second wettest summer on record and above average rainfall is expected to continue.

"Nationally we averaged 354.7mm - 70 per cent above normal and second only behind the infamous summer of 1973-74 when 419.8mm was recorded," Weather Channel meteorologist Tom Saunders said in a statement.

He said one of the strongest La Nina events on record was to blame and all states and territories recorded above average falls.

Victoria has never seen a wetter summer since records began 111 years ago and it was

Western Australia's second wettest.South Australia had its third wettest

summer, NSW its 5th, Queensland its 6th and the Northern Territory it's 8th. But in Tasmania, the summer just gone was well off record levels (17th).

"After a decade of drought, the Murray-Darling Basin also recorded its third wettest summer on record," Mr Saunders said.

"Looking ahead into autumn, the La Nina is now past its peak and has been weakening since early January.

"However, until the Pacific Ocean returns to neutral in winter we can expect above average rain to continue over most of the country."

CANBERRA, March 12 AAPAustralia will send a team of emergency workers and sniffer dogs to help Japan cope after the massive earthquake and tsunami.

Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd said search and rescue personnel and sniffer dogs f rom NSW would be joined by sniffer dogs from Queensland and would be sent to Japan af ter it was rocked by a 8.9-magnitude quake on Friday afternoon.

D efenc e wou ld f ly t he t ea m out , hopefully by Saturday evening, Mr Rudd told reporters at a press conference in Canberra.

"Australia is ready to throw anything as is required (to help in this emergency).... We will throw everything at it," he said.

Mr Rudd said contact had been made with all prefectures except Miyagi, where the danger and damage has been the greatest.

Communications in Sendai, where the tsunami hit, were severely degraded, the foreign minister said.

There were 54 Australians registered as living in Sendai but there were probably hundreds of Australians living in the area, Mr Rudd said.

"The reason being is that it is a place where Australian language teachers have gone to work," he said.

The scale of devastation in the wake of the tsunami rivalled the pictures that came out of Aceh in 2004, Mr Rudd said.

"The pictures are awful and they are stomach turning in terms of the level of destruction and the force of nature," he said.

"Therefore we are deeply worried about the impact and the loss of life on the local Japanese communities in that area, as we are about the numbers of Australians who are registered as being in Sendai and the additional number we believe to be resident in Sendai as well."

The number of Australians there and affected were likely to "bounce around a lot" but the government would work step by step to account for all Australians.

SYDNEY, March 8 AAPA vaccine linked to a spate of child deaths in Japan does not pose the same risk in Australia, officials say.

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) said Australia's supply of the Prevenar vaccine did not come from the same batch currently at the centre of a probe in Japan.

Japanese health authorities have ordered a temporary halt on the use of two vaccines - Prevenar made by Pfizer and ActHIB made by Sanofi-Aventis - while they are being investigated.

Prevena r protec t s ch i ld ren against meningit is and pneumonia while the ActHIB f ights against Haemoph i lus influenzae type b bacteria.

The investigation follows the deaths of four infants after they were given the shots alone, or in combination with other drugs, from March 2-4.

A TGA spokeswoman said the Act-HIB vaccine was not in use Australia and

assurances had been given surrounding the nation's stocks of Prevenar.

"The TGA is aware of these reports from Japan," a spokeswoman said on Tuesday.

"The vaccine Prevenar is available in Australia but the sponsor has assured the TGA that batches of the Prevenar implicated in the adverse reactions in Japan have not been supplied in Australia.

"The TGA is working closely with the Japanese Regulatory authorities and the manufacturer to obtain detailed information about these cases."

The Japanese babies who died were aged between about six months and two years.

In addition to the four deaths in March, another infant died in November after receiving his second shot of the ActHIB vaccine.

American authorities have also noted the probe in Japan but said there were no "new safety concerns or unusual reporting patterns" relating to use of the vaccines in the US.

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CANBERRA, March 11 AAP The secret to losing weight is eating grapes, says Australian swimmer Geoff Huegill.

The multiple Olympic and Commonwealth Games medallist made an amazing comeback to his sport at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, after a six-year battle with depression and bad eating habits saw him balloon to 138kg.

Emerging from retirement to lose more

than 45 kilograms in just 15 months, the butterfly king snared double gold and silver at last year's Commonwealth Games.

He attributes the weight loss to reaching for grapes instead of a sausage roll, and is now involved in a campaign aimed at promoting the benefits of Australian table grape varieties.

"Grapes are 80 per cent water so they help keep you hydrated , while their natural

fructose provides energy and vital ity," Huegill said in a statement on Friday.

According to a recent Newspoll survey, Aussie men are most likely to snack on sausage rolls and meat pies, while women are more likely than men to snack on fruit and sweet biscuits.

The online survey of 1209 adults, aged 18-64, found 64 per cent of respondents snacked on chocolate or lollies as a morning

or afternoon snack, with those aged 50 to 64 more likely to snack on fruit than younger generations.

"Because we're all so busy it's easy to slip into the habit of grabbing something that's not good for us when we're peckish," Huegill says.

"That's where grapes have a bunch of benefits - they're low on the Glycemic Index but a real nutritional punch, they taste great and they're convenient.

"Because there's no peeling or cutting, you can take them anywhere and store them easily."

SYDNEY, March 11 AAPRuper t Murdoch is the world's most influential Australian.

And as of Friday he may also be the world's most influential 80-year-old.

Power lists usually have him ahead of everyone on earth bar people like Bill Gates and the leaders of America, China, Russia, Germany and Britain.

The only other octogenarians who hold as much sway are probably the 83-year-old Pope and the 86-year-old King of Saudi Arabia.

Murdoch's media offerings are consumed by the vast majority of the planet 's population.

Fellow Australian tycoon Frank Lowy, by

comparison, is also 80 and owns almost as many billions as Murdoch.

But shopping centres don't give him the Murdoch muscle.

And while Lowy is finally handing the reins of his empire to his sons, Murdoch is doing nothing of the sort.

Associates say he is "80 going on 18".He still thrives on business, and the power

that comes with it.Murdoch is not the only businessman in the

world who regularly has the ear of prime ministers and presidents.

But he doesn't go to them; they usually come to him.

He has helped to make more than a few of them.

He reportedly has met every US President since, and including, Harry Truman.

He endorsed Barack Obama in 2008, saying: "He is a rock star. I am anxious to meet him. I want to see if he will walk the walk."

Murdoch was close to Republican presidents such as Ronald Reagan and George W Bush, with his Fox News becoming the chief flag-waver for the Iraq war.

But he has also had excellent relations with the other side of politics.

The closeness of his relationship with British Labor prime minister Tony Blair and their secret meetings to discuss national policies became a political issue.

He was also close to Conservative PM Margaret Thatcher, which helped during the battle of Wapping, when he famously took on and clobbered the British print unions.

In the land of his birth he famously threw his weight behind Gough Whitlam in 1972, only to incense his own journalists by the way he pulled the rug out three years later.

He once described Kevin Rudd as "too sensitive for his own good" and "more ambitious to lead the world than to lead Australia".

Murdoch recently won a media dispute with Silvio Berlusconi when a judge ruled the prime minister's media arm had prevented News Corp's Italian unit from buying ads on its television networks.

As a final measure of influence, Murdoch has been portrayed on The Simpsons, and he didn't need anyone to voice him.

He did it himself.

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