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 Opinion polls Saturday showed Kevin Rudd's Labor Party maintaining its
clear lead over Prime Minister John Howard's ruling coalition with just
a week to go before Australia's November 24 general election.
Support for Labor is steady at 54 per cent with the conservatives
on 46 per cent, according to an opinion poll in The...
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A Sydney coroner claimed Friday that Indonesian troops deliberately
killed five Australian-based journalists to prevent news getting out
about the 1975 invasion of the former Portuguese colony of East Timor.
Dorelle Pinch said the death of those who have become known as the Balibo Five could constitute a war crime.
Her finding...
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 A great white shark attacked an Australian woman at a
popular tourist beach while she was riding her surf ski on Monday. The woman
fell into the water and fought off the shark.The victim, Linda Whitehurst told local television she
suffered only small lacerations on her right arm in the fight with the
2.5-meter (eight-foot) shark,...
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 Today, September 4 we commemorate one year from the death of
naturalist Steve Irwin.
Steve passed away last year when a stingray barb pierced his
heart as he was filming an underwater documentary.
That day Australia
went into mourning.
In Queensland's
parliament, State Premier Peter Beattie paid tribute to Mr. Irwin,...
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 over
Australia
can finally calm down now that the Equine influenza viral disease epidemic that
swept the country is nothing to worry about.
The ban was lifted this afternoon, making Western Australia the
first state to allow the movement of horses, mules and donkeys following a
scare of equine influenza.
19 horses have...
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 Australian authorities filed charges against an Indian doctor on Saturday in connection with the failed car bomb attacks in Britain.Mohammed Haneef was arrested on July 2 in Brisbane while he was waiting for a flight to take him back in homeland India. He is accused of providing support for the men that tried to bomb Glasgow...
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 When no one expected it, Australia
decided to adhere to a world-wide policy of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and
outline once more the tremendous amount of clean energy provided by nuclear
power.
The announcement was made Sunday by Prime Minister John Howard,
the same person that stressed a month ago the importance of...
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A New Zealand woman on an oxygen machine died after her electrical power was cut off by the supplier because of her unpaid bills. The power company, Mercury Energy, said it had been unaware of the woman's condition, but the police said they were investigating the circumstances of Mrs Muliaga's death.However, the woman's family has quite...
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 David Hicks, the Australian man who became the first to be convicted of terrorism-related crimes by the U.S. military tribunals at Guantanámo Bay, Cuba, was flown to Australia. He is to be transferred to the Yatala Labor Prison, where he will be confined in a high-security block for the remainder of his sentence, which ammounts to nine...
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New Zealand passed today a new law that outlaws child beating but does not criminalise parents who use “inconsequential force”. Previous legislation allowed “reasonable force” to be used by parents to discipline a child. This formulation left room for much interpretation that sometimes allowed abusing parents to be left unpunished.The...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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