Tag: News in Australia

Fire services were called to a Vodafone shop in Canberra after a new iPad air exploded.

Qantas says it's committed to doing most of it's maintenance in Australia, despite closing its Avalon facility and send the work offshore.

Australia is experiencing record low death rates, as the average life expectancy cracks the 82-year mark for the first time.

Plans for a sculpture of Tony Abbott’s head, to be displayed with other Prime Minister’s heads, are being finalised.

Adelaide, has been named as ‘a top 10 city to visit in 2014’ by Lonely Planet.

People smugglers in Indonesia have formed a “super syndicate” as Australia’s new resettlement policy sees demand for their services from asylum seekers plummet.

I'll get a large quarter pounder meal, six nuggets, an apple pie, and all your money. A man convicted of the armed robbery of a KFC in Darwin has been extradited to SA to face similar charges.

People smugglers are reported to be offering to put asylum seekers in shipping containers to get them to Australia or New Zealand.

A new report has revealed six out of ten Australia adults are too fat to be healthy, and even the slimmest area in Australia has weight problems.

UK audiences have a lot to look forward to, after the first episode of Chris Lilley's new show Ja'mie: Private School Girl screens in Australia.

A triumphant Fire Commissioner has said strategic planning and aggressive back burning has paid off, and the major fire threat authorities had anticipated in the Blue Mountains has been averted.

Doctors have expressed concerns over the increasing rates of Aboriginal people in remote indigenous communities contracting sexually transmitted diseases.

The federal opposition has questioned a directive that immigration staff refer to boat people as “illegal” arrivals.

Three top-level emergency warnings have been declared in NSW affecting residents in the Blue Mountains and Southern Highlands.

Queensland police have apologised to a man after questioning him over a t-shirt featuring the insignia of a fictitious TV bikie gang.

One man has died and hundreds of homes have been feared lost as firefighters labour to control some of the worst blazes NSW has ever seen.

Hundreds of properties are feared lost in bushfires around NSW, and it will be a miracle if no lives are lost says Premier.

Former Attorney-General Nicola Roxon is not to be messed with. She has delivered a scathing attack on Kevin Rudd, calling him a "bastard" and asking him to resign from parliament for the sake of the Labor Party.

Crime figure turned author Mark 'Chopper' Read has been remembered as a family man at a small private funeral in Melbourne.

Labor’s shadow frontbench includes 11 women and six new faces as Opposition Leader Bill Shorten seek a new direction for his party.

Labor will need Tanya Plibersek’s skills as a communicator and her popularity with colleagues as it tries to unite after a devastating election loss.

Australian crime figure, Mark ‘Chopper’ Read, has died in Melbourne after a long battle with liver cancer.

A beer-swilling pig who made worldwide headlines with his drunken antics in Western Australia has been found dead after being hit by a truck.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott will persevere with controversial measures aimed at stopping the flow of asylum seeker boats to Australia

A funeral in Hobart has heard terror victim Ross Langdon had his greatest achievement ahead of him — the birth of his baby daughter, who was also killed in the Kenya mall attack.

The shooting of Angelina Jolie’s new film Unbroken in NSW is expected to inject millions of dollars into the local economy.

Crocodiles have always enjoyed a healthy respect in the Northern Territory but high season has just begun for an even deadlier creature: the box jellyfish.

Australia’s corporate regulator insists it carried out through investigations into corruption allegations linked to the Reserve Bank of Australia.

A boat bound for Australia, carrying 120 asylum seekers sinks off the coast of Indonesia, leaving 20 dead, mostly children.

For only the second time in the past six years, the Australian Navy intercepted a boat and handed the asylum seekers back to Indonesia.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has issued a communications clampdown on his frontbench, ordering all ministers obtain the approval of his office prior to speaking to media.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has defended his government's first days in office, saying his ministers are "hard at work" but not rushing decisions.

Following London Fashion Week, English model and serial party-goer Cara Delevingne is crowned 'Fashion Royalty' on the cover of Vogue Australia.

State of Origin streaker Wati Holmwood has successfully appealed his three-month prison sentence at a Sydney court.

Another community march is being planned to remember Melbourne woman Jill Meagher, who became the public face of Victoria’s parole system failures.

The Abbott government insists it will honour its election promise to stop asylum seekers arriving by boat despite Indonesian opposition to its controversial plan to turn back vessels.

Environment Minister Greg Hunt has abolished the Climate Commission and begun work on getting rid of the Climate Change Authority, in what has been described as a black day in the fight against global warming in Australia.

Sydney radio station 2Day FM is seeking to prevent the media watchdog from finding it committed a criminal offence last year.

Tony Abbott sacked three department heads within minutes of being sworn in as prime minister but one of the nation's most influential public servants, Martin Parkinson, defied speculation and retained his job.

Liberal frontbencher Sophie Mirabella has lost her Victorian seat of Indi to grassroots independent Cathy McGowan.

Bill Shorten may have the majority support of the ALP caucus for the party's federal leadership but he's going to have a tough fight winning over NSW rank and file members.

Anthony Albanese and Bill Shorten have begun their leadership pitch to Labor members voting in a historic ballot.

Dozens of special-edition London cabs have arrived in Fremantle, Perth to be trialled for use on Australian roads.

Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott has tried to head off accusations the coalition government has gone backwards by not being able to appoint more than one woman to cabinet.

Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott has announced his new cabinet and ministry line-up in Canberra, and has come under fire for including only one woman — Julie Bishop — on the team.

Australian man Tom Denniss has become the fastest person to circumnavigate the world on foot after running on average a marathon a day, every day, for 622 days. The 26,000 km charity run raised money for Oxfam.

Labor’s rank and file will help choose the party leader in Canberra with Anthony Albanese standing against Bill Shorten.

A British-Australian man, Gary Tweddle, who went missing in the Blue Mountains has been farewelled at a service in Sydney, with his father paying tribute to those who searched for him.

The Liberal candidate dubbed the “Where’s Wally” of the 2013 Australian election, Jaymes Diaz, has made a surprise appearance on the ABC’s comedy sketch program The Hamster Decides.

Former union boss Bill Shorten will stand for the Labor leadership but he could still face a challenge from Anthony Albanese.