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LOWITJA O'Donoghue says her 60 years of struggle for Aboriginal people has been more than compensated by the experience and opportunities life has given her.

QUEENSLAND Health Minister Paul Lucas says swine flu deaths are inevitable, as 16 Queenslanders remained in hospital with the illness.

IFLA is relocating its 2010 World Library and Information Congress from Brisbane, Australia, to Gteborg, Sweden, citing the troubled global economy.

Featured Article Main Category: Melanoma / Skin Cancer Also Included In: Genetics ; Cancer / Oncology ; Dermatology Article Date: 06 Jul 2009 - 9:00 PDT A consortium of European and Australian scientists doing a genome-wide association study found three gene variants were strongly linked to melanoma risk: two of them had previously been linked to ...

How have landscapes transformed by drought in Australia impacted people's perceptions of climate change? I'm traveling through Brisbane and Melbourne at the moment, researching how the consequences of drought have transformed the landscape , and the subsequent cognitive processing of climate change.

Tuesday, 7 July 2009, 11:09 am Press Release: New Zealand Government Super portability on agenda for Australian visit Finance Minister Bill English will meet Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan in Brisbane on July 16 to discuss the portability of retirement savings between New Zealand and Australia.

The globe's tropical zone is expanding rapidly and by the end of the century, Sydney's climate will be more like Brisbane's is today, Australian experts say.

By Julian Linden Brisbane - Australia accused South Africa's rugby players of eye-gouging, biting and spitting during their Tri-Nations clash on Saturday.

Australian authorities said as many as 70 prisoners in the northeastern state of Queensland may have contracted swine flu, after five inmates in two jails tested positive for the H1N1 virus in a week.

It's an oldie but a goodie. The perks of politicians as they try and disguise the real earn from being an MP are resurrected regularly in slow news times.

The researchers also found that many of these DNA variations also are involved in bipolar disorder but not in several non-psychiatric diseases.

Brisbane, Australia - Briton Ben Southall said he'll miss his mom's Sunday roast as he began what's been dubbed the "Best Job in the World" - a six-month contract to serve as caretaker of a tropical Australian island.

By Diana Taylor Brisbane - Australia's Great Barrier Reef risks choking to death on fertiliser-soaked silt thanks to the clearance of wetlands and rainforests along the neighbouring Queensland coast, scientists said on Wednesday.

'Fresh start': new Opera Australia head Lyndon Terracini. Map: Sydney 2000 After a four-month international search, Opera Australia has found a new artistic director - Lyndon Terracini, the CEO and artistic director of Major Brisbane Festivals.

Mandurah and Bunbury in WA are the only regions outside Queensland that have experienced high levels of internal migration, the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows.

A SENIOR Maritime Union official who took part in port security meetings allegedly assisted a crime gang as it tried to smuggle $170 million worth of drugs into Australia.

NEW technology has been used to develop the first Australian batch of a new vaccine against the H1N1 swine flu virus.

Australia has reported its third swine flu fatality today. The latest influenza A sufferer who succumbed to complications is a Victorian woman,aged 50.

A Brisbane-based ensemble called Elision is performing a contemporary opera in Moscow, as part of the Chekhov International Theatre Festival.

AUSTRALIANS are in two minds about multiculturalism, a long-term survey has found.