Sydney, 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.

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'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Budget 2013: Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer, Wayne Swan during his budget speech in Canberra.

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.

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.

Otago Boys' High School pupil Timothy Chisholm continues in his bid to answer his burning questions.

More than six hours before Wayne Swan got to his feet in the House of Representatives to table the 2013 Budget, several hundred journalists and government officials were queuing up to be locked up.

First off, a declaration. I set about researching this piece intending to show that broadband penetration has less to do with availability and more to do with affordability.

Emily Gap is deserted. Leaning against a warm wall of rock under the shade of a river red gum, gazing at an ancient but incredibly vibrant gallery of rock art just a few metres away from the main road, it's hard to believe that I have this place all to myself.

Heavy-industry workers have called on the NSW government to put "minds at ease" and immediately commit to keeping the rescue chopper in Wollongong.