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Coalition planning GST hike: Shorten
LABOR cabinet member Bill Shorten has warned Tony Abbott would hike the GST rate if elected as prime minister in September.
Australia's 'Best Jobs' finalists get ready for show time.
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.
City on show for international travel agents
The agents are being hosted as part of Tourism New Zealand's biggest-ever trade familiarisation and training event, involving 440 international visitors.
Japan hopes to join next round of TPP talks in KL
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.
Trip to Redditch will fulfil mother's dying wish
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.
Santos migrates to Windows 7 before XP support ends
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.
Overseas tourists shun Territory experience
Numbers of international visitors to the Northern Territory have plummeted to their lowest level since records began 14 years ago.
It was easy to detect more than a hint of family rivalry as Hawke's...
Stephanie Milligan poses with Whizzarita after a training session in the build-up to the September Trans-Tasman Western Riding Challenge in Melbourne.
Selling city doctors on a rural lifestyle
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.
Just what a weary traveller needs
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.
Emirates adds third A380 to NZ
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
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)
Coral Bay: Children see mother's body washed ashore and father...
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.
Theatre Interview: Jason Donovan on touring Priscilla Queen of the Desert to the Liverpool Empire
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.
Family cancer tragedy hard to fathom
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.
Beauty brand Benefit finally lands in NZ
Childhood trips to the mall with their mother were more than a shopping experience for American sisters Maggie and Annie Ford Danielson.
Giant duck deflates in Hong Kong
The giant bird, created by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, was found lying on its side on Tuesday night and was completely flat by Wednesday, reports say.