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Intrepid My Adventure Store has an eight-day tour of Tuscany including five nights' hotel accommodation, two nights on a farm estate, seven breakfasts, three lunches, three dinners, transport and sightseeing on tour, and an expert English-speaking tour leader from $3490 a person, twin share.

IT might only be their second year as "grey nomads", but Tasmanian retirees Michael and Patricia O'Brien are addicted to the travelling lifestyle.

IT'S one of those days skiers dream of. As we drive along the Alpine Way towards Thredbo, heavy snow begins to fall around us.

Ice cream registered strong current retail value growth of 17% and retail volume growth of 11% in 2012.

Former Crows superstar Andrew McLeod with children from Cowandilla Primary School, from left, Ashlee, Mya, Jacob, Poonyarrah, Keeral and Kurt.

The puzzlement of whether one decision, just one, can change your destiny is where the poignant author Michelle de Kretser takes her latest novel, "Questions of Travel." Introducing two separate stories, the author takes the reader on a possible yacht race, a space ship, a bumblebee piggyback ride, or a flight out over the oceans -- so to speak.

Packaged food achieved a dynamic value performance in 2012 following a price rise across categories.

ELIZABETH JACKSON: Australia is helping Afghanistan develop its fledgling mining industry and tap into mineral and energy reserves estimated to be worth trillions of dollars.

LABOR cabinet member Bill Shorten has warned Tony Abbott would hike the GST rate if elected as prime minister in September.

After six weeks, 620,000 applications by 330,000 individuals from 196 countries, 46,000 video entries, the 18 finalists have been selected for the Best Jobs in the World.

The agents are being hosted as part of Tourism New Zealand's biggest-ever trade familiarisation and training event, involving 440 international visitors.

JAPAN has appealed to Malay-sia, one of the member countries of the Trans Pacific Partnership , to support its request for an extension of the ongoing talks.

A WOMAN is set to travel thousands of miles across the globe to Redditch to fulfil a dying wish to her mother and meet her last living blood relative.

The ending of Windows XP support in April 2014 combined with slow log in times led Australian oil and gas producer Santos to start its Windows 7 migration.

The AFL has strategically hand-picked six club chiefs to join bosses Andrew Demetriou and Gillon McLachlan on a July mission to New York to investigate American football's sophisticated equalisation formula.

Numbers of international visitors to the Northern Territory have plummeted to their lowest level since records began 14 years ago.

Stephanie Milligan poses with Whizzarita after a training session in the build-up to the September Trans-Tasman Western Riding Challenge in Melbourne.

Campaigns, special programs and financial incentives have helped to convince some GPs to try a tree change but no one can underestimate the power of a personal story in helping a cause.

IN an Australian first, passengers will be able to step off the plane and out the airport doors and pick up their shopping before heading home to fight off the jetlag.

From October the airline will use an A380 to fly the daily Auckland-Brisbane-Dubai service replacing the smaller Boeing 777-300. Auckland will from October become the first airport outside Emirates' Dubai hub to have three Airbus A380 aircraft on the ground at one time when the double-decker aircraft is introduced.