New South Wales, Australia News

Centre for Environmental Risk Management of Bushfire, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia.

A British broadcaster has been convicted of animal cruelty after two reality show contestants skinned, cooked and ate a rat during filming in Australia.

Health authorities should emphasize the positive message that the most successful method used by most ex-smokers is unassisted cessation, despite the promotion of cessation drugs by pharmaceutical companies and many tobacco control advocates.

Bureau of Statistics got wine production figures wrong The Bureau of Statistics has made a mistake in its latest report on the Australian wine industry.

Eleven high dependency nursing home patients in Sydney's northwest have had to be evacuated due to flooding caused by severe thunderstorms.

Royce Smith planned to visit Sydney, Australia during spring break to attend an arts festival and work on a book, when he found an unbelievably good fare on American Airlines' Web site: A round-trip ticket from Wichita, Kansas, to Sydney for just $1,198. In first class.

THE heavy rain has eased in New South Wales after thunderstorms and torrential downpours caused problems for hundreds of residents over the weekend.

A BYSTANDER who saw a 77-year-old fisherman swept off his boat tried to throw him a life jacket before he drowned in rough seas on the NSW mid-north coast.

Diplomat Martin Welsh will be New Zealand's next Consul-General in Sydney. Mr Welsh would lead New Zealand presence in Sydney, looking over trade and enterprise, customs, police, internal affairs and immigration and tourism, Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully said today.

THE search is on for a family to live in Australia's first ever smart home. The three-bedroom home in Newington, in Sydney's west, comes with rooftop solar panels, a fuel cell that converts natural gas into electricity, water saving appliances, state-of-the-art lighting and a worm farm.

Maybe you have experienced stealing vegetables on the Kaixinwang or Happy Net, China's online social networking community, and chatting with friends on the MSN or QQ.

Sydney, Feb.7 : Australian and New South Wales fast bowler Brett Lee, who is currently out of national reckoning because of a serious elbow injury, has predicted that injured right-arm quick Peter Siddle will fight his way back into the national squad.

THE mop up has begun after a night of wild storms which killed one teenager, flooded roads and homes, brought down trees, and caused car crashes across NSW and Queensland.

PRONE Labor backbencher Belinda Neal has apparently defied Kevin Rudd, revealing that she never undertook an anger management course after all.

AUSTRALIA'S Resourcehouse said yesterday it had secured a deal worth US$60 billion to supply coal to Chinese power stations over a 20-year period, calling it Australia's largest ever export contract.

While Hudson reported a reduction in jobs for C , C++ and Visual Basic programmers, it said there had been strong demand for support based jobs, such as helpdesk The recovery in the IT jobs market could begin to take its toll on contract positions, according to the latest ICT salary guide by recruitment firm Hudson.

Melbourne, Feb.4 : Victorian Premier John Brumby has said that he will meet with Indian High Commissioner Sujatha Singh again after she accused his government of not doing enough to address attacks on Indian students.

MELBOURNE: A Malaysian neurosurgeon is facing murder and manslaughter charges after the bodies of two women were found on separate occasions at his A$1.7mil luxury home in Sydney.

A judge in Sydney, Australia ruled today that Men at Work's '80s megahit 'Down Under' infringes on the copyright of an old children's song called 'Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree,' according to the AP.

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich attends the Climate Change Coalition dinner in support of candidate Patrice Newell ahead of the State Election, at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre on March 7, 2007 in Sydney, Australia.