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Tourism Australia has snubbed the Gold Coast in it's recent tourism campaigns, local community driven portal hopes to put the Gold Coast back on the map, web 2.0 style, with it's google maps mash up, local business and accommodation directory along with community forums and classifieds. [via Bulletin]
Australian Prime Minister John Howard pledged on Sunday to establish a national carbon trading scheme by 2012 to cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions, calling it the most momentous economic challenge of our time.
A Slight By Any Other Name

Exclusivity of any kind has always made me nervous enough that I want to throw up: segregation by skin color, religion, sex, or sexual orientation. So as a gay person, I was doubly disappointed to discover that The Peel Hotel, a nightclub in Melbourne, Australia that caters mostly to homosexual men, was recently granted the right to refuse entry to
Ericsson and Telstra have successfully completed the world's first live network trial for next-generation 40Gbps optical transmission technology in Australia.
Terri Irwin hopes her daughter Bindi will "infiltrate the world" with her new conservation-themed television series in which she stars with her late father, Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin.
EXTRAORDINARY though it seems, it was not until 1967 that Australian Aborigines were recognised as citizens of their own country. Before that they were classified as native wildlife, along with kangaroos and koalas.
Muslim taxi drivers are regularly refusing to carry blind passengers with guide dogs ΓΆβ;¬" including Australia's Human Rights Commissioner. The treatment of the blind by Sydney cab drivers has been exposed by Human Rights and Disability Discrimination Commissioner Graeme Innes, who is himself blind and reliant on hi
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Japan and the U.S. plan to expand a joint study on missile defense by adding Australia amid concerns about North Korea 's weapons program, a news report said Tuesday.
CANBERRA, Australia - Authorities said Monday they want to shoot more than 3,000 kangaroos on the fringes of Australia's capital, noting the animals were growing in population and eating through the grassy habitats of endangered speciesThe Defense Department wants to hire professional shooters to cull the kangaroos at two of its properties on the o
The sleepy town of Geraldton in Western Australia is best known for its busy fishing port that also exports natural resources to Asia.
Last year 13,500 Victorians - the equivalent of 260 a week - were charged with an offence that no longer exists in most Australian states and territories. Public drunkenness was decriminalised in NSW, Western Australia, South Australia, the Northern Territory and the ACT in the 1970s and 1980s.
The Kangaroos are unstoppable. It was proved once again when the crushed Sri Lanka by 53 runs in the final to win the World Cup for a record third time in a row.
When the timer pings, Emma Kendall-Marsden knows that her four minutes in the shower are up. In her native Northamptonshire she loved to linger under a powerful hot jet. But this is Brisbane, and the water is running out.
PM John Howard warned that irrigation of much of the nation's farmland will be banned unless there is heavy rainfall in the next month. Irrigators are already warning that if they cannot water their land, there will be huge crop losses & consumers will face large price rises. He said there was no choice, and he described the situation as grim.
Australia's most expensive home could soon be built in an exclusive Perth suburb after an Indian family paid $22.7 million for a series of prized riverfront blocks.
Profligate shower-takers may find their water supply cut to a trickle as country endures a long drought made worse by global warming.
The Australian government has announced plans to outlaw material that advocates terrorism - a move designed to tighten its already strict censorship rules.
Australia plans to nearly double its forces in Afghanistan, Prime Minister John Howard said Tuesday, describing the dispatch of 450 soldiers as an attempt to check the swelling Taliban insurgency.
Australia is to deploy a 300-member special forces task group back to Afghanistan to help counter the expected Taliban summer offensive, Prime Minister John Howard has announced.
The European Union accused the United States and Australia on Monday of hampering international efforts to tackle climate change.
Australia's largest city dimmed on Saturday night as businesses and homeowners switched off the lights to draw attention to global warming.
An environmental group said Tuesday it had captured a "monster" toad the size of a small dog.
The first Guantanamo detainee to be formally charged under the new military commission rules, David Hicks, has alleged in a court document filed here that during nearly 5 years in American custody he has been frequently beaten during interrogations, and that as a result he "cooperated" with his interrogators.
More than 50 reptiles, including a crocodile, were stolen from an Australian animal education center established to continue the work of wildlife crusader Steve Irwin. The haul from the Wildlife Wonderland near Melbourne, included a 60-centimetre (2 feet) freshwater crocodile, two pythons and three bearded dragons, all requiring an owner's license,
Australia's prime minister declined Saturday to commit to a timeline for withdrawing his country's forces from Iraq , but insisted that steady progress was being made.
Camels hit Australia hard. After rabits, bullfrogs, yet another introduced animal creates problems in Australia.
From the article: "The prime ministers of Japan and Australia have signed a security pact designed to enhance military co-operation between the two nations.Japan's PM Shinzo Abe said the pact would help to stabilise the region. The defence deal - Japan's first with a country other than the US - includes co-operation on border security, counter-terrorism and disaster relief."
Sylvester Stallone has been charged with trying to bring vials of a muscle-building hormone into Australia, where it is restricted. Lawyers for Stallone, the 60-year-old star of the "Rocky" and "Rambo" movie franchises, represented him in a Sydney court on Tuesday where he faces a charge of importing a banned substance.






