Australia Travel News

Virtus Health Pty is planning an Asia-Pacific and Middle East expansion as well as seeking acquisitions after an initial public offering said to have raised A$338 million , Australia 's largest share sale this year.

OLD boy is in a critical condition after falling 10 metres from a ferris wheel at a school fete in southern Queensland.

A WOMAN who left her home in Ludgershall when her parents emigrated to Australia as 'A 10 Poms' in 1965 returned to England for the first time in 48 years this week.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College presents Sing-a-long-a Sound of Music today, May 19, 2013 at 1pm.

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.