Oceania News

Two teenagers have pleaded guilty to bashing to death a New Zealand man at a Sydney sporting oval.

Yabulu nickel refinery ... BHP will write off hundreds of millions of dollars on the operation.

During the filming of Baz Luhrmann's epic Australia in 2007, Kidman and crew members from the film cooled off in creeks and water holes in and around the outback town of Kununurra.

In this undated photo supplied by Queensland Museum, palaeontologists search for the Diamantinasaurus fossils in Winton, in central Queensland, Australia.

Children in Australia's Aboriginal communities are six times as likely to be abused or neglected than the country's non-indigenous children, a government report said Thursday.

MIGALOO AND FRIEND IN 2005: The rare albino whale has been awarded an exclusion zone in Queensland waters, with hefty fines for anyone who gets too close.

FORMER federal MPs are flying high on the gravy plane by claiming an astonishing 20,000 taxpayer-funded flights around Australia since 2001 worth more than $8.3 million.

Mandurah and Bunbury in WA are the only regions outside Queensland that have experienced high levels of internal migration, the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows.

A woman in a Ruth Tarvydas gown will always be an attention-grabber. It was no different last night when the Perth designer gave fashion and entertainment insiders a peek at the national costume she has created for Miss Universe Australia, 20-year-old Townsville beauty Rachel Finch, for next montha s Miss Universe finals in the Bahamas.

NEW Zealand's capital Wellington is threatening to surpass Melbourne as the swine flu capital of Australasia, an infectious diseases expert says.

A new report shows how little has been achieved in closing the disadvantage gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians and how much work is ahead, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says.

THE French National Assembly on Friday approved a landmark bill on compensating the victims of nuclear tests carried out in French Polynesia and Algeria over more than three decades.

Bank interest rates have been attracting criticism from politicians. Government MPs blocked a parliamentary inquiry into the interest rates banks are charging, the Labour Party said today.

A British man has started "the best job in the world" - a six-month contract as caretaker of the islands on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Government provides further details of stage one of national broadband project. Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy Wednesday unveiled the regional locations that will form the first stage of a planned multibillion dollar national broadband Internet network.

Rain that raised river levels and caused slips on the East Coast has eased overnight, allowing people evacuated on Tuesday to return home.

Australian Federal Government today announced $810m funding transitioning Australian secondary schools into the 21st century.

Update: 5:27PM ANOTHER person was identified today with the Pandemic H1N1 2009 virus.

Media coverage of Michael Jackson's death began receding following an extraordinary worldwide outpouring, with the shock wearing off and the pace of new developments slowing.

The body of a Chinese female student was found in a river in Tasmania on Tuesday after she was reported missing on last Thursday.