Tag: Western Australia

The 83-year-old woman from Western Australia contracted coronavirus in mid-April and died in her home two weeks later.

A message in a bottle claimed to have been discovered on a beach in Western Australia has been confirmed as being authentic and the world's oldest, but some doubt lingers over the find by "renowned ambush marketer".

The Western Australia state election is set to be close, with Pauline Hanson's One Nation potentially taking the balance of power in the upper house. WA overseas voters are being encouraged to have their say.

Road trip planning should definitely start with some research about the area you will be travelling in. Research the attractions you may be interested in visiting, make a list, and then create a realistic time frame for seeing those places.

WATCH: A beautiful, big, Aussie 'woah' moment to brighten your day.

Residents told to flee deadly bushfires raging in Western Australia that have already claimed four lives.

Battery on your EV running low? No worries, a network of electrical charging stations dotted throughout Western Australia's South-West now forms the country's first extended road route for electric vehicles.

Dusty enjoys dog treats, sleeps with other dogs and rides around with them on the back of his owner's truck. Dusty the kangaroo is convinced that he is a dog.

Only in Australia: Car broken down, no worries mate take your plane to the pub.

A recent poll revealed the top ten Australian destinations. Here's what to add to your Australian travel bucket list.

Prime minister calls the Western Australian ban of the 140-year-old opera depicting smoking “political correctness gone crazy.”

An Australian funeral director endured a 4 hour-long road trip with a portly body in her hearse. Her hefty companion then had to spend the night in her hearse after a morgue turned her away saying he would not fit in their fridge.

As an extensive search in the Western Australian bushland ends positively for a British national who went 'walk about' during a music festival police have started a search for the second missing Brit.

Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia is considered Australia’s family friendly alternative to the Great Barrier Reef. Explore the reef at your own pace while you watch frolicking dolphins and whales.

A journalist for The Australian has been kicked out of a press conference announcing Clive Palmer's candidates for the re-run Senate election in WA.

Fire-starters should be classed as "urban terrorists", according to WA's emergency services minister

Killing sharks in WA waters to protect beachgoers will dent tourism says billionaire entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson.

Ricky Gervais has put his celebrity weight behind the campaign against WA's shark kill policy.

Queensland Premier Campbell Newman is in talks with the federal government to get more immigrants and refugees to settle in regional areas.

POSTCARDS FROM AUSTRALIA | Broome gave us our first glimpse of the west coast of Australia, and I have never been more grateful to see the ocean again

British comedian Simon Pegg has been talking up the delights of Perth on Twitter where he is currently filming an Australian crime thriller Kill Me Three Times.

POSTCARDS FROM AUSTRALIA | An inland detour takes us through a part of Australia we rarely see - with long sweeping valleys and row-upon-row of vineyards - as we drive from Maryborough to Toowoomba.

Don MacLeod, the Australian man who saved Kiwi Ryan Blair from a six-metre crocodile that had stalked him for a fortnight on Western Australia's West Governor Island, has plenty of similar tales.

Australians and Poms who have family in both the UK and Western Australia are being invited to take part in a major new memories project which links the University of Hertfordshire and the University of Western Australia in Perth.

POSTCARDS FROM AUSTRALIA | 16,000kms into the trip we look down the barrel of another 11,000 of red dirt and blue highway home. We have fantasised about dumping the car on the spot and flying home. Still, we drive on.

A giant radio telescope which has been switched on in remote WA will give scientists a better look at the beginnings of the universe.

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.

The Western Australia’s European Office celebrated the founding day of Western Australia by hosting a WA wine tasting event at the Australian High Commission last week.

Perth shock jock Howard Sattler will pursue legal action against Fairfax radio after he was sacked for asking prime minister Julia Gillard whether her partner is gay.

Western Australian shock jock Howard Sattler has been suspended from the airwaves after asking PM Julia Gillard if her partner is gay during an interview.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has hit back at the Newman government’s ban on federal Education Minister Peter Garrett visiting schools in the state by ordering all Labor MPs to stand outside school gates and push the Gonski reforms to parents that are dropping off and collecting their children.

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.

Billionaire resource magnate Clive Palmer has won a court battle worth millions of dollars, which centred around a single word in a contract.

As late evening sets over the wheat paddocks of Western Australia, one reader snaps this shot to share a little piece of home with us here in the UK.

The hit Aussie film Red Dog has just opened in the UK after making over $20 million at the Australian box office last year and being hailed as a critical and commercial success.

THE HARD NOSED TRUTH: Make the most of the Aussie property market now.