CAMBIA, a research centre in Canberra, points out, the sequence of many individual rice genes has been known for years, but little has been done with them since the necessary tools have not been available.

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But Canberra is Australia's capital city and the centre of the country's political activity.

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Canberra has courted controversy at home by stationing a detention centre for asylum-seekers on the island - part of its policy of keeping refugees at arm's length.

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