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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.

Australian politician visits Western Armenia 12:50 15.05.2013 Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, Walt Secord, who is also the Deputy Co-Chair of the NSW Parliamentary Friends of Armenian Group, delivered a powerful speech in Parliament recounting his recent visit to Western Armenia, the Armenian National committee of Australia ... (more)

Kathreen Ricketson was on a dream trip with her husband Rob Shugg and two children, aged 13 and 10, when an apparent snorkelling trip went tragically wrong Two children are feared orphaned after the body of their mother was washed ashore and their father remained missing in an apparent snorkelling tragedy.

IF EVER there was a reason to go back in time and tell my eight-year-old self something about my current life it would surely be that I am interviewing Jason Donovan.

A CANADIAN tour guide, an American travel blogger and a Taiwanese insurance consultant are in the running to become a wildlife caretaker in South Australia as part of the Best Job in the World campaign.

ANGELINA Jolie had both breasts removed to avoid the fate that lies in wait for Gold Coast woman Elisha Neave.

QUAINT country shopping strips are an iconic part of rural Australia - but ailing main streets as we know them could vanish in a Federal Government plan to downsize country towns.

Childhood trips to the mall with their mother were more than a shopping experience for American sisters Maggie and Annie Ford Danielson.