Tag: Australia in world news

Reports that Midnight Oil have been offered a significant amount of money to reform for the US festival circuit.

The Australian government is currently awaiting a response to a proposal it has presented to the international community, which would create protected marine areas in East Antarctica and establish reserves that would ban fishing and hunting.

The 23-year-old Australian woman gored at Pamplona's Running of the Bulls festival over the weekend has been named as New South Wales resident Jessica Escarlet.

A Sydney man currently serving 20 years in Bulgarian jail for murder has had his application to serve the remainder of his sentence in Australia rejected.

A 24-year-old Australian identified only by the initials ‘J.C’ was treated for minor injuries sustained on the weekend at the Running of the Bulls festival in Pamplona, Spain.

Tourists have been advised “not to bother” travelling to Perth in a scathing review of its value as a holiday destination following a Tourism Australia industry event in city last month.

Sensitive documents leaked by NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden have revealed that several Australian facilities are actively contributing to a controversial American intelligence collection program.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is in Indonesia for talks with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on the asylum seeker issue and trade.

The federal government has warned hundreds of Australian travelers to reconsider trips to Egypt following increased tension in the political state of the country.

Japan is set to tell the UN’s top court that its whaling program — opposed by Australia — is “carefully conceived and planned and sustainable”.

The Australian government has contributed $700,000 to refurbishing the Franco Australian Museum in Villers-Bretonneux. The museum honours the contribution of Aussie diggers on the Western Front during World War One.

She's been cast out of Labor's top job by her caucus colleagues, but Julia Gillard is always welcome in New Zealand.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange today claimed that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden had contacted the Assange legal team and that he was “healthy and safe” despite not showing up for the flight that he was expected to take to Cuba earlier today.

A piece of Western Australia's remote East Kimberley region will be able to be seen from the top of the Eiffel Tower when an enormous artwork by an Aboriginal artist is unveiled on a Paris museum's rooftop.

A United Nations treaty co-authored by Australia and designed to restrict the sale of illegal arms in the global marketplace has been signed by Junior Defence Minister Mike Kelly in New York City earlier this week.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has rejected Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s accusation that Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop had “embarrassed the nation” by claiming that the Indonesian government supported the Coalition’s policy to turn back the boats of asylum seekers if elected later this year.

Gruen Sweat, a four-part spin off from the original Gruen Transfer, has won a prestigious Rose d’Or award for Best Entertainment Show in Brussels.

Australia has been voted as the best country in the world to live and work for the third year running in the OECD Better Life Index.

Three of the ‘big four’ Australian banks have made the top 100 of a global survey of the world’s most valuable brands. The Brandz survey credits Australia’s strong economy for contributing to the growing value of Australian brands.

A protester has interrupted the annual dawn service at Anzac Cove at Gallipoli this morning, claiming that Australian police were trying to kill him.

Two Australian soldiers will take part in a charity expedition across the Antarctic to the South Pole with Prince Harry later this year to raise money for wounded soldiers.

Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart, 59, who believes “beauty is an iron mine”, is included in Time Magazine’s List of the 100 most influential people. She is listed alongside Barack and Michelle Obama, Steven Spielberg, Kate Middleton, Jay Z and Beyonce.

Radical Australian preacher Feiz Mohammad has reportedly been cited by Boston bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, with a YouTube user by that name believed to have shared videos of the controversial Muslim cleric online.