Canberra, Australia News

Went to Canberra due to the lack of snow in Thredbo and to see the sites! The first visit was the War Memorial which is something that everyone should see at least once.

TOO little, too late and far too slow. When all is said and not done, that is the problem with existing government plans to save the stricken lower reaches of the Murray River, according to water management ...

Sun and surf seem to deliver glowing health to women on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, while WA's wheatbelt women come a close second on the list of who leads the nation in the life expectancy stakes.

Australia is to sign a new disaster response accord with Japan and the United States.

PROPONENTS call it a win-win idea, and even the unions have dropped their opposition, but a plan to have Pacific Islanders picking fruit and vegetables on seasonal visas in fields and orchards across Australia ...

Lynton Crosby co-heads the Australian firm John Key is using to polish his strategy and media image.

Australia and Japan have traded barbs ahead of a meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Santiago, Chile.

THE Gippsland by-election was described by Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson today as a "significant" result which sends a clear message to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

Treasury Secretary Ken Henry and his wife will soon begin a five-week stint looking after a group of the northern hairy-nosed wombats, newspapers reported Friday.

ISPE , a global, not-for-profit Society of 25,000 pharmaceutical science and manufacturing professionals, has named Douglas Ellsworth its International Regulatory Affairs Advisor, effective 15 July.

Another case of alleged child neglect emerged today as state governments defended their handling of a woman charged with leaving five children in squalor in Adelaide.

Main Category: Primary Care / General Practice Article Date: 24 Jun 2008 - 5:00 PDT President of the Rural Doctors Association of Australia and Vice President of the Rural Doctors Association of South ...

By Rob Taylor Reuters Thursday, June 19, 2008; 10:59 PM CANBERRA - Australian Aboriginal children remain vulnerable to sexual abuse a year after the government sent in police and soldiers to clean up their ...

Where can you find the best fish n chips in Canberra? I have been to the fish n chip shop in O'Connor which was pretty darn pricey.

Lawmakers fail to gag celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay By ROD McGUIRK The Associated Press Jun 19, 2008 CANBERRA, Australia -- A Senate panel rejected calls Thursday to ban certain swear words on Australian TV ...

Map: Weston Creek 2611 Three people have been arrested for an armed robbery at the Weston Creek Labor Club in southern Canberra earlier this year.

Where every utterance was once a pearl, every quip a side-splitter, today your insights rarely make the news and the journos just sneer.

THE director of Australia's quarantine has taken the fall for last year's horse flu disaster, standing aside after an investigation blamed the service for the breakout.

SENIOR Indonesian political leaders are looking to Kevin Rudd to restore the warmth in bilateral relations felt under the previous Labor prime ministers Gough Whitlam and Paul Keating, but they expect Canberra ...

TELSTRA has slammed claims the price it would charge consumers to use the proposed national broadband network would be 15 per cent higher than other suppliers.