Feeds
Energy giant PetroChina Co. Ltd. has pulled out of a $40 billion deal to buy natural gas from a project off Australia, leaving Woodside Petroleum Ltd. looking for new customers.
Angry farmers wearing broad-brimmed hats and cracking kangaroo-hide whips rallied outside Parliament Monday as one of their colleagues continued a hunger strike to demand compensation for Australian climate change policy.
Authorities declared two flooded farming regions in southwestern Australia natural disaster zones Monday as residents in one town nervously watched a river peak without breaking its levees.
Residents returned Thursday to nearly 40 homes razed in Australia's most destructive wildfires in almost year, which left four people injured.
Trouble struck paradise this week when a British man who has the "Best Job in the World" as the caretaker of a tropical Australian island was stung by a potentially lethal jellyfish.
Little more than three months after gaining her citizenship, Russian-born speed skater Tatiana Borodulina was among the first two athletes selected for Australia's team for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Formerly conjoined twin sisters Trishna and Krishna were discharged from an Australian hospital Monday, five weeks after their separation surgery and just in time to celebrate their third birthday.
Australia's economy, insulated from the worst of the global downturn by lavish government spending, slowed in the third quarter as the boost from the first phase of the stimulus faded.
Australia plans to introduce an Internet filtering system to block obscene and crime-linked Web sites despite concerns it will curtail freedoms and won't completely work.
Australian scientists have discovered an octopus in Indonesia that collects coconut shells for shelter — unusually sophisticated behavior that the researchers believe is the first evidence of tool use in an invertebrate animal.
Three-time Olympic swimming champion Libby Trickett is retiring from top competition at the age of 24.
Australian and Chinese officials urged two bamboo-munching giant pandas on Sunday to consider reproducing during their 10-year residency Down Under.
A massive iceberg edging slowly toward Australia's southwestern coast is breaking up into hundreds of smaller icebergs as it drifts into warmer waters, creating potentially hazardous conditions for ships trying to navigate the region, a scientist said Tuesday.
Australia's prime minister threatened legal action against Japan on Friday if it does not stop its research whaling program that kills up to 1,000 whales a year.
Australia was accused of censorship Tuesday for denying visas to North Korean artists whose works are on display in a regional exhibition, but the government says the art comes from Pyongyang's propaganda machine and its creators are not welcome.
Australians thought they were prepared for wildfires. Until Black Saturday.
Two stars of the reality TV show "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here" have been charged with animal cruelty after allegedly killing and cooking a rat to eat during filming.
A man dove face-first into an extremely venomous, peanut-sized jellyfish in waters off northeast Australia and medics flew him to a hospital intensive care unit to treat the potentially fatal sting, officials said Friday.
Nicole Kidman is using her star power to help Australia's bid to host the World Cup in 2018 or 2022.
Australia's Senate on Wednesday defeated the government's plan to implement a carbon pollution trading system to fight global warming, dashing hopes of setting an example for other nations at U.N. climate change talks next week.
Two giant pandas from China were welcomed to Australia on Saturday with gifts of bamboo and a city party before settling into their new home, a 25-acre (10-hectare) natural enclosure at the Adelaide Zoo.
President Barack Obama will meet with the Australian prime minister at the White House on Monday.
Australian authorities plan to corral about 6,000 wild camels with helicopters and gun them down after they overran a small Outback town in search of water, trampling fences, smashing tanks and contaminating supplies.
Formerly conjoined twin sisters Trishna and Krishna are enjoying a favorite DVD and trying new foods as they continue their recovery from marathon separation surgery, doctors said.
Australia's opposition leader Tuesday pledged his party's support for contentious legislation proposed by the government aimed at curbing the country's greenhouse gas emissions.
Gay adoption inaction riles rights groupsLegal experts and human rights groups have slammed the New South Wales Government over its decision not to allow same-sex couples to adopt children.
Police smeared in Indian newspaper as 'Ku Klux Klan' AUSTRALIAN police have been likened to members of the Ku Klux Klan in an inflammatory cartoon published in an Indian newspaper in the wake of the death of Nitin Garg in Melbourne.
Australian uni experts: "Protecting US prestige the only reason to stay in Afghanistan"Experts: "Various pretexts have been offered for Australia's continuing occupation of Afghanistan eight years after it began. All but one have collapsed... Protecting US prestige the only reason to stay in Afghanistan "
Female toads inflate to avoid sexWhen it comes to choosing a mate, female toads may have more control than previously thought, say scientists.
Darwin revealed as world's broken jaw capitalA Northern Territory surgeon says Darwin has the highest rate of broken jaws in the world and that can be attributed mostly to alcohol-related violence.
Iraqi granted bail after alleged attackAn Iraqi refugee accused of dragging a woman from a Brisbane park into his house and raping her twice has been released from custody.
Ram raid on high seasSEA Shepherd's latest mission is called Operation Waltzing Matilda and the aim is to sink Japan's illegal whaling industry not literally, but economically.
Mutant toads have experts hopping A concernng number of deformed cane toads with extra limbs and missing digits have been found by researchers in Central Queensland.
Watson set to become millionaire through endorsements in IndiaMELBOURNE: Cricket-mad India is set to make Shane Watson a multi-millionaire as the in-form Australian all-rounder is poised to land lucrative sponsorship deals in the country besides getting a massive hike in his central contract.
Whalers sink Sea Shepherd boatThe anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd says one of its boats has sunk in the Southern Ocean after being hit by a Japanese vessel.
What a difference a day makes. This time last night me and Tens of millions of Pakistani Cricket fans were feeling great. We were finally on the verge of a long awaited win versus Australia. That all changed with the first hour of play today. Absolute disaster.
Google's Nexus One skips AustraliaSearch giant Google has left Australia off the list of countries whose residents will be able to order its self-branded mobile handset based on its Android platform.
Bega doctor faces more sex assault chargesThe trial of former Bega doctor Graeme Reeves onmore than 100 sexual assault and fraud charges has been put off because of new charges laid last month.
Abandoned little girl and body in boot of carThe sight of little Qian Xue standing alone, abandoned at a busy Melbourne railway station by her father who left her and walked away without even a backwards glance was a scene that shocked most New Zealanders. By Andrew Koubaridis
Police say boy threw girl on to freewayA 14-YEAR-OLD boy has appeared before a children's court in Brisbane over allegedly throwing a seven-year-old girl on to a freeway. The boy appeared in court at Richlands in Brisbane's south-west yesterday.
Westpac customers walk over rate riseANGRY Westpac customers appear to be voting with their feet. Australia's largest mortgage broker, AFG, says a ''large proportion'' of its business in December came from Westpac customers switching to other lenders in protest at Westpac's outsized December rate rise.
Flying foxes zap power supplyThousands of Country Energy customers lost power last night after a colony of flying foxes flew into a supply line on NSW's north coast.
Seven people remanded over alleged Melbourne kidnappingsTHE kidnapping of three men freed in a series of early morning raids today resulted from a drug deal gone wrong, a city court hearing has heard.
Woman sues Lutheran church for $95,000 over old pencil injuryTHE Lutheran Church of Australia is being sued for almost $100,000 by a woman who injured her finger while a student at one of its parochial schools more than a decade ago.
Teen accused of throwing girl, 7, onto Australian highwayA 14-YEAR-OLD boy appeared in Childrens Court at Richlands in Brisbane's southwest charged with a shocking attack on a seven-year-old girl.
Digital TV boost for rural AustraliaThe Federal Government has announced measures which will give all Australians access to every free-to-air digital television channel.
Second man charged over toddler's death in police car chase A SECOND man has been charged over the death of a two-year-old girl during a Sydney police chase on New Year's Eve.
Sex charge hearing startsA BENDIGO man described by police as one of the worst child sex offenders in Victoria spat at members of the media after leaving the first day of his committal hearing yesterday.
Virgin Blue flight hit by laser near BrisbanePOLICE are investigating an incident in which a laser was shone at the cockpit of a Virgin Blue flight carrying 153 people south of Brisbane.
Log In | Register
