Australian Green Party Leader: U.S. Climate Denial Machine Being Directed ...
Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:35:06 -0800

By Stephen Lacey on Dec 8, 2011 at 12:30 pm If President Obama needs a role model for his stance (or lack thereof) on climate change, he should look no further than the Deputy Leader of Australia's Green Party, Christine Milne. ...

Series win in Australia the benchmark: Dravid
Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:22:03 -0800

Mumbai: Rahul Dravid has admitted the form he has been in during 2011 has set him up strongly for a final tour to Australia , where India are set to play four Tests against a different-looking home side than they have encountered in the past. ...

Sehwag warms up for Aust tour
Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:20:09 -0800

Martin Guptill, Jesse Ryder and friends may be lulling Australia into a false sense of ability. When it's Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag at the other end of the pitch in a couple of weeks, life is likely to be different for the Australian bowlers ...

HECS minus $400 million means Australia is a nation of dunces
Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:02:15 -0800

australia'S ambition to become the "clever country" is in tatters because it cannot produce enough experts in the two most critical disciplines - mathematics and science. Top scientists and mathematicians, furious about the Gillard government's $400 ...

Australia's ANZ, NAB cut mortgage rates
Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:26:39 -0800

By Narayanan Somasundaram SYDNEY, Dec 8 (Reuters) - National Australia Bank and Australia and New Zealand Banking Group cut their variable mortgage rate by 25 basis points, bowing to political pressure to pass the central bank's rate reduction earlier ...

Australia's move: A lesson for US and Europe
Fri, 09 Dec 2011 05:32:03 -0800

It is the Australian equivalent of a Mexican standoff. Up and down Martin Place in central Sydney, the country's big banks are eyeing each other following the Reserve Bank of Australia's decision to cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points. ...

Hotels accuse Costello of pokies hypocrisy
Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:06:30 -0800

The Australian Hotels Association (AHA) has written an open letter to World Vision Australia head Tim Costello requesting he retract his criticism of a Sydney priest. The priest in question, Father Chris Riley, is fronting a campaign against the ...

Cricket Australia board is pale, male and stale, says cricket writer Malcolm Conn
Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:03:21 -0800

MELBOURNE: The Cricket Australia board is pale, male and stale and lacks the courage of its players, says cricket writer Malcolm Conn. Referring to the Crawford-Carter Report, Conn says the report has been scathing about the current board's lack of ...

Australia 'playing games' at climate talks
Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:00:44 -0800

As world climate talks enter their final tense day in South Africa, Australia has been accused of "fudging it" at the Durban meeting. Delegates at the UN conference are trying to work towards a new set of targets to replace those that expire in 2012 ...

Bounty doubled for Australian bushman murder suspect
Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:35:00 -0800

Sydney the bounty on an accused Australia murder and survival expert, who has avoided capture for six years, was more than doubled by police Friday. Malcolm Naden has eluded police since disappearing in June 2005 from his grandparents' home, ...

Taskforce to investigate feasibility of taxing Australian online shoppers
Fri, 09 Dec 2011 05:46:02 -0800

The online shopping boom has led to Australia Post delivering its first profit increase in four years. With busy schedules and boatloads of free shipping offers shopping online is a handy option, but hackers are hungry for consumers' sensitive data. ...

India, Australia making up for lost time
Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:54:40 -0800

NEW DELHI: With the "uranium irritant" out of the way, India and Australia are scaling up defence and security ties. Australia may rejoin the high-profile Malabar naval exercises with India, the US and Japan in the near future as well as working in ...

Australia's Worst Jobs Gain in 15 Years Raises Rate-Cut Chances
Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:45:16 -0800

8 (Bloomberg) -- Australia is headed for its worst year of jobs growth in 15 years, boosting prospects central bank Governor Glenn Stevens will extend interest-rate cuts into 2012 as inflation pressure eases. Payrolls gained 44700 through the first 11 ...

Australia's missions of delicacy when the travel bug bites back
Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:01:02 -0800

A passport is issued in Australia on average every four seconds of every working day. And, as the old saying goes, there is one born every minute. Put these together, and what you get is a lot of Australians travelling overseas and a good chance a few ...

Hockey: Black Sticks to take it to Australia
Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:22:40 -0800

There are few tougher assignments in world hockey than to beat Australia at a top-level tournament but it's exactly what the Black Sticks need to do tomorrow (Sat) if they are to have any chance of making Sunday's Champions Trophy final against the ...

Scottish News: Scots granny's horror as she discovers bodies of murdered ...
Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:36:34 -0800

Police said the gory crime scene in Port Denison, Western Australia , was one of the worst they had ever seen. It's thought that Heather Glendinning, 46, killed her daughters Jane, 12, and Jessica, 10, before taking her own life. ...

Australian woman gored to death by rare pygmy elephant named
Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:31:29 -0800

A pygmy elephant fatally gored an Australian tourist in a remote Malaysian wildlife reserve on Borneo island, an official has said. Jenna O'Grady Donley died of injuries from the attack yesterday at the Tabin Wildlife Reserve - the first known fatal ...

Australian retailer placed in administration after 93 years
Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:18:45 -0800

By IANS, Brisbane ( Australia ) : Australian clothing retailer Fletcher Jones has been put in administration after 93 years in business, becoming the latest victim of the national retail gloom, the Australian Retailers Association (ARA) said Thursday. ...

Ministry To Study Australia's Model For Teaching English Effectively
Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:08:50 -0800

PERTH, Dec 9 (Bernama) -- The Education Ministry will study Australia's intensive English language course with a view to making it a model in strengthening the teaching of the language in Malaysia, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said. ...

Australia's Worst Jobs Gain in 15 Years Raises Rate-Cut Chances
Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:45:16 -0800

8 (Bloomberg) -- Australia is headed for its worst year of jobs growth in 15 years, boosting prospects central bank Governor Glenn Stevens will extend interest-rate cuts into 2012 as inflation pressure eases. Payrolls gained 44700 through the first 11 ...