THE Sydney-Canberra air route is open to competition from today as Virgin Blue resumes flights between the two cities. The airline, which withdrew from the...
China's red flag was seemingly everywhere on the Australian leg of the Olympic torch relay, a nationalistic display that swamped protesters' efforts to draw attention to human rightsissues in Tibet and elsewhere. Critics said the demonstration of...
: Australia's most populous city, Sydney, is running out of cemetery space as rising land values and urban sprawl squeeze out potential new areas, a government report said Sunday. In about 40 years there...
SYDNEY, Australia - A sixth person died Thursday of injuries suffered when a fishing trawler collided with an overcrowded boat in Sydney Harbor, authorities said. Five people on the boat, all in their late teens or early 20s, died when the vessels...
SYDNEY, Australia - A portrait of Hollywoodstar Heath Ledger painted weeks before his death has won an Australian art award. The painting features a bare-chested Ledger staring from the canvas as two images of the actor whisper into his ears. On...
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THE Queensland Government has put the controversial $1.7 billion Northbank development in Brisbane on hold after a public outcry. The proposed development, which involved the construction...
SIX staff at a Queensland government building in Brisbane's CBD have been diagnosed with cancer in the past four years, raising fears of another cancer cluster. Public Works Minister Robert Schwarten said Queensland Health had been asked to undertake...