Australia Travel News

In my old age I have started doing offerings in the street not that doing offerings is a new thing.

SLEEPLESS NIGHT: Pierre-Oliver Pigeon, 21, and Maude Rousseau, 18, of Montreal, were among the travellers told to leave Christchurch airport at midnight.

The hotel, designed by MAS architectuur is characterized by a futuristic faade of black glass and aluminum.

We've noted before just how popular cycling holidays have become in recent years as active and adventurous travelers look for new ways to explore their favorite destinations.

European cities dominated the world destinations popularity table, with New York City , San Francisco and Sydney the only non-European destinations in the top 10.

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.

AGL has been fined $1.55 million for the misleading and deceptive conduct of two doorknockers, in Victoria and South Australia.

The romance of train travel is alive and very much kicking, thanks in no small part to the world's really special journeys - the Orient Express, South Africa's Blue Train and the Ghan in Australia.

Australian states are in a scramble to attract a visit fromBritain's Prince Harry who will be visiting Sydney later this year for the Royal Australian Navy's Centenary Fleet Review.

A HIT LIST of the nation's hospital hot spots reveal more than 1700 patients caught killer superbug infections in public hospitals last year.

AUSTRALIA'S most advanced commercial satellite developer has put South Australia at the heart of its ambitions outlining visions of engineers based at Mawson Lakes flying its constellation of satellites.

Hawaii is becoming the destination of choice for Tauranga holidaymakers. Tauranga travel agents report the most popular destinations for bookings during the winter months are Australia and the Pacific Islands, but Hawaii is making a comeback.

Queensland's auditor-general says the Drinksafe program to reduce alcohol-fuelled violence appears to have been a costly failure.

SYDNEY: Over 200 local community members turned out to celebrate the one month anniversary of the Summer Hill rainbow crossing.

Some of Australia's biggest retailers have recently spoken out at a conference in Melbourne saying that while selling online has the benefit of lower overheads, it is not yet as profitable as traditional bricks-and-mortar retailing.

An expert on fly-in, fly-out workforces says communities in south-west Western Australia must adapt to benefit from the growing number of FIFO workers in the region.

Some western Queensland projects have received funding under the third round of the Regional Development Australia Fund but others have missed out.

The president of Dalgety's community association in the New South Wales high country says officials working on the upgrade of the Buckley's Crossing Bridge do not understand all the needs of the community.

Improving on the old coin-operated scale, a new Australian startup is placing walk-in 3D body scanners in shopping centres to take people's measurements.

Its officials analysed train patronage at major world airports and booming passenger numbers at Tullamarine, expected to host 46 million people a year by 2023, to make the call.