|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Australians warned of 'catastrophic' fire danger
Sydney - More than 1,000 of Australia's volunteer firefighters were in action Saturday as crews battled 60 of forest blazes in the sweltering south-east where a decade of drought has left tinderbox conditions. A total ban on open fires was declared i...
[Posted on :
] Category : [
Environment ]
|
Surprise fall in unemployment signals economic improvement
Sydney - Australia's jobless rate fell 0.1 per cent in September in a move that surprised economists and signaled a recovery in the Australian economy. Economists had expected the September figures to show unemployment rise from 5.8 per cent to 6 per...
[Posted on :
] Category : [
Business ]
|
Grey nomads: Australia's roving retirees
Sydney - Early morning in South West Rocks on the east coast of Australia: James and Mary carefully sweep out and clean their Roadstar Dreamtime camper and enjoy a coffee on their camping chairs. The view of the white beach and the deep blue Pacific ...
[Posted on :
] Category : [
Homes (General) ]
|
|
|
|
|
Central Australia: nothing, to write home about
Alice Springs, Australia - Fly from Sydney towards Alice Springs and you start with lots and end with almost nothing: the city, its suburbs, then bigger and bigger farms give way to desert so harsh and unyielding it has mostly been left alone. That's...
[Posted on :
] Category : [
Travel (General) ]
|
Firefighters use mud to battle burning oil rig
Sydney - Firefighters battled to put out a fire at an oil-and-gas rig in the Timor Sea north of Australia Tuesday by pumping thick mud into the well to plug the leak. The fire broke out Sunday with flames and smoke rising hundreds of metres into the ...
[Posted on :
] Category : [
Australasia (World) ]
|
Political furore over drowned refugees in Australia
Sydney - A heated debate broke out in Australia Tuesday over the government's refugee policy after a boat carrying 39 asylum seekers sank in the Indian Ocean with 12 feared drowned. Australian rescue planes and vessels raced to the remote site in the...
[Posted on :
] Category : [
Australasia (World) ]
|
|
|
Twenty feared dead as boat sinks in Indian Ocean
Sydney - About 23 people were feared drowned Monday after a boat thought to be carrying 40 asylum seekers sank in remote waters of the Indian Ocean. A search plane was launched from western Australia to join the search for survivors after a liquid na...
[Posted on :
] Category : [
Australasia (World) ]
|
Australia says no more troops for Afghanistan
Sydney - Australia told its ally the United States Thursday that it would not increase the size of it military deployment to Afghanistan. Defence Minister John Faulkner told senior US officials in Washington that Australia would not be adding to the ...
[Posted on :
] Category : [
Australasia (World) ]
|
|
|
Truck crash kills 500 sheep in Australia
Sydney - More than 500 sheep were killed when a truck carrying them to an abattoir overturned on a bend in Australia's south-east. Victoria Police Sergeant Nick Buenin said Friday that the truck with 750 sheep on board hit a guard rail and slid on it...
[Posted on :
] Category : [
Australasia (World) ]
|
France's Henry tops rogue's gallery, Australian paper says
Sydney - Thierry Henry's self-confessed handball to secure France a win over Ireland and a place in next year's World Cup has shot him to the top of sport's rogue's gallery, Australia's Daily Telegraph said Saturday. It claimed Henry had outplayed s...
[Posted on :
] Category : [
Sports ]
|
Vintage athletes put a smile into sport - Feature
Sydney - Nova Batman, who won a hockey gold for Australia at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and was a 400-metre runner at the Sydney Games four years later, is living proof that age wearies sports stars but does not a...
[Posted on :
] Category : [
Sports ]
|
|
|
|
|
Gold galore for Masters Games golden girl
Sydney - Australia's Ruth Frith, the undisputed golden girl of Sydney's World Masters Games, won her sixth gold Sunday. This medal will just go in the draw with all the others, the 100-year-old great-grandmother said before skipping the games closi...
[Posted on :
] Category : [
Sports ]
|
|
|
Fiji expels New Zealand and Australian diplomats
Wellington - Fiji's military ruler Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama gave the senior diplomats of New Zealand and Australia 24 hours to leave the country on Tuesday and ordered his country's high commissioner in Canberra to return home. In a televised add...
[Posted on :
] Category : [
Australasia (World) ]
|
|
|
