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`Terrorists can hit $300 bn Australian oil rigs`

American investors fear that Australia`s USD 300 billion worth of oil and gas rigs are vulnerable to...

Will lead Labour Party in 2013 polls: Gillard

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Sunday said she will lead the party in next year`s polls....

Oz’s Gina Rinehart becomes richest woman in world

Western Australian mining tycoon Gina Rinehart is now the richest woman in the world after her wealt...

‘Assange stands good chance to win Oz elections if runs for Parl’

Wiki Leaks founder Julian Assange is believed to stand a good chance of winning an upper house seat ...

Australia: International student numbers rising

Over 183,000 international students were granted Australian visas in the nine months to March 31.

Australian man graduates at 97, again!

A grandfather of 12 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren, Stewart from Tea Gardens now plans to r...

Rock defects below earth surface impact quakes

Defects in rocks lying below the earth`s surface can modify the impact of seismic waves generated by...

Australian woman wins case for injuries during sex

An Australian woman has won a court battle to seek workers` compensation after being injured while h...

Influential Australian Greens leader to quit politics

Bob Brown`s resignation stunned Greens lawmakers, but will not affect their agreement to support the...

Australian military hit by sex scandal

The Australian military has been rocked by a sex scandal after a 23-year-old soldier was arrested ...

Australian military faced with another sex scandal

The Australian military is facing another sex scandal just weeks after it handed down wide-ranging r...

Snake on plane: Pilot forced to land

An Australian jet pilot was forced to make an emergency landing shortly after takeoff as a snake a...

Woman finds maggots in Qantas snack

An Australian woman said on Monday how she was horrified to discover live maggots in a snack she wa...

Oz announces changes to student visa regime

Faced with dwindling international enrollments, Australian govt has announced a slew of changes to ...

WikiLeaks` Assange plans bid for Australian Senate

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is fighting extradition to Sweden, where he`s wanted over sex crime...

Aussie birds `declining faster`

Australian birds are declining faster than elsewhere in the world, and would have been worse if not ...

Oz PM reshuffles cabinet after leadership battle

Australian Prime Minister unveiled changes to her cabinet on Friday, appointing former state leader ...

‘Afghan troop boasts of shooting Australians’

An Afghan soldier who opened fire on Australian troops at a remote base last year has claimed he an...

Australian PM stumbles before angry protesters

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard stumbled and was caught by a security guard.

Saudi Arabia pardons Aussies charged of blasphemy

An Australian man was sentenced 500 lashes and a year in jail in Saudi Arabia for blasphemy.

Japan to release 3 Oz activists who boarded whaler

Australia maintains the annual whale hunts violate Japan`s international obligations and is seeking ...

Seven injured as turbulence hits Qantas A380

The Airbus superjumbo was three hours from Singapore when it hit a storm over Indian airspace.

`Activists detained on Japan whaling vessel`

US-based Sea Shepherd is tailing Japan`s whaling fleet as it heads towards the Southern Ocean to try...

Indian surrogacy brings twin delights to Oz couple

IVF is a process in which egg cells from a woman are fertilised with sperms outside her body and lat...

Aussie kidnapped in Philippines seeks $2 mn ransom

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has said that her government has established a task force to...

Australian tourist found dead in Jaipur hotel

Ramganj police station SHO Narendra Singh said that the girl, Kathleen Adam Brook, was a resident of...

Ex-Oz PM decries India uranium ban decision

Former Australian prime minister Malcolm Fraser on Monday strongly criticised Julia Gillard for am...

Saudi: Oz man to get 500 lashes for blasphemy

Mansor Almaribe, was charged with blasphemy last month while participating in the Hajj, a pilgrimage...

China jails Australian businessman for 13 years

A Chinese court on Tuesday jailed an Australian businessman for 13 years on bribery and embezzleme...

Oz minister rules out uranium export to Pak

Stephen Smith has ruled out uranium export to Pakistan, citing its poor proliferation record.

Oz: Over 200 asylum seekers taken into custody

The boats were carrying 110 and 103 passengers, according to an AAP report.

Australian teen electrocuted in Bali

Jake Flannery was out celebrating on the well-known Kuta strip when he received the electric shock a...

Murdoch son denies lobbying Australian senator

Rupert Murdoch`s eldest son denied that he was present when a former Australian senator alleges a ...

Australian boy, 14, sentenced in Bali for drugs

The teen was vacationing on Bali with his parents when he bought the drugs.

Australian police probe News Corp allegations

News Corp stood to profit from the legislation failing.

Julia Gillard regains lead as preferred PM: Poll

Tony Abbott`s rating as preferred prime minister fell five points to 35 percent - the lowest in nine...

Australian leaders welcome Danish royal couple

The couple and their four children landed in Australia on Saturday and spent the next two days in Sy...

Pakistan must do more to counter terrorism: Aus PM

Julia Gillard said Australia would adjust its Afghan troop contribution when the primary training in...

Australian PM flags early end to Afghan mission

Australia has 1,550 troops in Afghanistan, the largest force provided by any country outside NATO.

Rogue Afghan soldier shoots three Australians

Two Afghan soldiers were also wounded before the man fled in an Afghan Army vehicle.

Australian Senate OKs carbon tax on big polluters

The Australian Senate on Tuesday passed bills that will make the nation`s 500 largest polluters pay ...

Australian PM makes surprise visit to Afghanistan

During her stop-over in Afghanistan on her way back from Cannes, Gillard also met Afghan President H...

Oz Police probe suspected sabotage of Qantas jet

Qantas said that engineers noticed several wires were cut on the in-flight entertainment system of a...

Australian police name Texas man shark victim

George Thomas Wainwright of Texas was the man who was killed by a great white shark on Saturday whil...

US President to address Australian Parliament

Australian PM says Parliament will be recalled from a recess to hear US President speak on November ...

Apple wins Samsung tablet ban in Australian court

An Australian court slapped a temporary ban on the sale of Samsung Electronics` latest computer tabl...

Australian parliament approves carbon tax

Australia`s lower house of parliament passed a contentious new tax on carbon pollution to combat cli...

Aussie soldier claims sex assault at Afghan base

Australia`s Department of Defence has confirmed it was investigating the alleged incident last month...

Qantas cancels Australian flights due to strike

Qantas Airways said 8,500 domestic and international passengers will have their flights disrupted by...

Australian lawmakers flag changes to racial laws

Aborigines argue the laws protect them from being persecuted by the media.

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