"Epics are made of these things," claimed Nicole Kidman this week before the first showing of Australia, Baz Luhrmann's new and spectacularly bloated film - a project so immodest that it has been named after the country it claims to describe. I have ...
19 Nov 2008
In this Nov. 18, 2008 photo released by Getup shows former Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks who released a video message through a political group pleading for Australian police to stop restricting his life, in Sydney, Nov. 20, 2008. The 33-year old ...
19 Nov 2008
Two of the tallest animals at Auckland Zoo have left home on the first and only big OE. Young giraffes Forrest, 12 months, and his half sister Ntombi, 16 months, were loaded into separate 4.2 metre high cages at the zoo today and onto trucks to be ...
19 Nov 2008
Japan says it has received assurances from Australia that it will seek a diplomatic solution to an emotionally charged dispute on whaling and avoid the use of force. Japan's fleet set off on Monday to the Antarctic Ocean with plans to slaughter ...
19 Nov 2008
Australia is in a good position to defend itself against the global economic crisis despite a bleak report that forecasts a possible recession in 2009, according to the central bank chief. Countries with tight monetary and fiscal policy settings are ...
19 Nov 2008
First 4K HD Video Signal delivered into Australia by AARNet Sydney, AUSTRALIA – 20 November 2008 – Australia's Academic and Research Network (AARNet) delivered its first 4K Super High-Definition video stream, which was four times the resolution ...
19 Nov 2008
Australia will put together a rival bid to host the next World Cup in 2013, which is set to be expanded to 12 teams.
20 Nov 2008
Australia's Paul Sheehan birdied the 18th hole for a bogey-free four-under-par 67 to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Dunlop Phoenix men's golf tournament.
20 Nov 2008
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australian police on Thursday said they will stop restricting the movements and communications of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee after he broke his long media silence to ask them to let him "get on with" his life.
19 Nov 2008
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Torrential rain triggered flash floods and evacuations in Australia's third-largest city, as the southeast of Queensland state was hit by the second major storm this week.
19 Nov 2008
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Australia will step up diplomatic efforts to halt Japan's annual whale hunt, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said, as the country's fleet heads toward Antarctic waters to begin harpooning the mammals.
19 Nov 2008
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Australia won't seek to renew a curfew and other security controls on former Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks when they expire next month, police said.
19 Nov 2008
God bless Baz Luhrmann. There are few directorial talents with the energetic potential he brings to his projects. Danny Boyle comes to mind. On good days,
19 Nov 2008
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19 Nov 2008
Fiji man jailed in Australia. Thursday, November 20, 2008. Update: 3:40PM A 29-year-old Fiji man has been sentenced to nine years after a court in Adelaide found him guilty of rape. Nilesh Prasad was found guilty of one count of choking ...
19 Nov 2008
Australia is in a good position to defend itself against the global economic crisis despite a bleak report that forecasts a possible recession in 2009, according to the central bank chief.
19 Nov 2008
Somebody Think Of The Children is a blog about censorship and moral panic in Australia, with a focus on Internet censorship.
19 Nov 2008
"I think that it's high time Australia and New Zealand express some disatisfaction with the way things are being done over here instead of supporting the regime to do what they want to do and they do it in the dictatorial manner as ...
19 Nov 2008