Australia Travel News

West Indies captain Chris Gayle, who left his team's tour of Australia to be with his sick mother, will head Down Under tomorrow and hopes to play in the first Test, Jamaican media has reported.

This airfare-only deal out of L.A. takes you to Sydney and then Cairns, with a free tour in each city.

QANTAS has moved to reassure passengers that an engineers strike would not ground flights and travellers could check departure times on mobile phones and its website.

VIRGIN Blue chief Brett Godfrey says he hopes airfares will return to stronger prices soon.

With a mountain of luggage and Jack Kerouac as company, Alan Mascarenhas endures a day at LAX.

An 81-year-old Australian man who became lost on an early morning drive to the shops and ended up almost 600 kilometres away told police he failed to stop because he "liked to drive". Eric Steward was visiting friends in Yass, a country town south of Sydney in New South Wales state, when he left to buy a newspaper at about 7:30am on Monday morning.

Centro Properties Group, which became one of the first casualties of the global credit crunch, says there are signs the retail environment in the United States may be improving.

A $107 MILLION bid for Fielders Australia is on the table, although one of the company's feuding shareholders says it has no knowledge of the move.

"It's a heck of a big hole all right," confirms Argyle Diamond Mine tour director Ted Hall as we peer into the cavernous mile-and-a-half-long, 2,000-foot-deep AK1 open pit from an observation deck on the crater-like southern rim.

Sri Lanka will cooperate with Australia to investigate, track down and bring to justice the masterminds who are involved in-migrant smuggling, said President Mahinda Rajapaksa during his meeting with the visiting Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith.

Boy oh boy, it's been awhile since Britney Spears did anything notable, let alone something travel-related, but last week she flew right back onto the scene and it was on a V Australia plane.

David Coe is in hot demand. So much so, that one company has refused to allow the former executive chairman of the failed Allco Finance Group to resign from its board.

Two unprecedented incidents occurred on crocodile cruises on the Daintree River in Far North Queensland recently, and luckily no one was injured.

New Delhi, Nov.11 : Energy starved India, which is pressing hard to ensure sufficient nuclear fuel supply for its drying nuclear reactors, is likely to persuade the visiting Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to open up the uranium sale to India.

Australia should shut the door to thousands of New Zealanders to help stabilise the nation's population at 26 million by 2050, federal Labor backbencher Kelvin Thomson says.

Melbourne, Nov 11 : It's a dream come true for girls everywhere: a Paris-based website has started a competition which offers the winner a one-month tour of seven world cities with a shopping budget of 10,000 Euros, business class travel and luxury accommodation.

When Matthew Hayden arrived at a remote indigenous school on the Tiwi Islands to find a sea of T-shirts reading `we love hay dos' the cricketing legend was overcome with embarrassment.

Britney Spears really does not care what the media opinion of her show is. Controversy erupted after her first Perth show when one journalist finally worked out what the world had known for years a that Britney lip-synchs many of her songs on stage.

Britney Spears has hit back at critical media reports of her Circus tour, saying she came to Australia for her fans.

QANTAS fears Middle Eastern airlines such as Emirates will boost their combined share of the lucrative business-travel market between Australia and Europe to nearly 50 per cent within three years.