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Former Australian PM Rudd hospitalised
(AFP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:35:54 GMT
 AFP - Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd was Friday admitted to hospital for surgery to treat severe stomach pain -- one month after he was dramatically removed from office by his own party.
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Australia govt expands proposed broadband network
(AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:12:01 GMT
AP - Australia's government expanded its ambitious plan to bring broadband to much of the vast country, adding 300,000 homes and businesses to the coverage area Friday in hopes of winning votes in next month's federal election.
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Australia pledges expansion of fibre broadband network
(AFP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:02:27 GMT
 AFP - The Australian government Friday committed to expanding its fibre broadband Internet network to a further 300,000 homes across the vast island continent if re-elected at next month's polls.
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Australia's Aboriginals won land, now defend right to use it
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:50:21 GMT
The Christian Science Monitor - For environmentalists, it doesn’t get much better than Australia’s Cape York Peninsula, a vast expanse of wetlands, tropical rainforest, savannah grasslands, and bone-white sand dunes, sheltering one-half of the country’s birds and one-third of its mammals.
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Australian govt denies sacked PM behind leaks
(AFP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:34:11 GMT
 AFP - Australia's government Thursday denied sacked ex-leader Kevin Rudd was behind leaks which have dented its election campaign and indicate lingering bitterness over last month's party coup.
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Australia awards compensation for prison van death
(AP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:12:58 GMT
AP - The family of an Aboriginal elder who died of heat stroke in a prison van with no air conditioning on a brutally hot day in Australia's Outback will be given 3.2 million Australian dollars ($2.9 million) in compensation, a state attorney general said Thursday.
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Australia adopts new sanctions against Iran
(AP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:57:01 GMT
AP - Australia will impose new sanctions against Iran, including restrictions for the first time on business dealings with that country's oil and gas sector, the country's foreign minister said Thursday.
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Japan wants US Marines to move to Guam
(AFP)
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:35:01 GMT
 AFP - Japan's government said Wednesday it had no plan to delay transferring some 8,000 US marines based on the southern island of Okinawa to the US Pacific territory of Guam by 2014.
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Giant, dog-sized rat documented in East Timor
(AFP)
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:42:48 GMT
 AFP - Australian archaeologists have documented the remains of ancient giant rats the size of small dogs which were discovered in a remote East Timorese cave.
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E.Timor awaits details on Australian asylum plan
(AFP)
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:50:40 GMT
 AFP - East Timor said Tuesday it is still waiting for details from Australia about a proposal to build a regional detention centre in the tiny country to host Australia-bound asylum seekers.
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Boat of plastic bottles ends 4-month Pacific sail
(AP)
Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:30:27 GMT
 AP - A sailboat largely constructed from 12,500 recycled plastic bottles has completed a 4-month journey across the Pacific Ocean meant to raise awareness about the perils of plastic waste.
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'Plastiki' bottle ship completes epic Pacific voyage
(AFP)
Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:44:49 GMT
 AFP - A boat crafted from thousands of plastic bottles sailed into Sydney Harbour on Monday, completing an epic trans-Pacific voyage to highlight the benefits of recycling.
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Poll advantage narrows for Australia's Julia Gillard
(Reuters)
Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:35:47 GMT
Reuters - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard suffered twin setbacks on Monday after a poll showed her lead slashed ahead of an August 21 election and smaller miners resumed an advertising campaign against her new mining tax.
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NZ teen survives 16-story fall onto concrete floor
(AP)
Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:34:48 GMT
AP - A 15-year-old New Zealand boy has survived a 16-story plunge from the balcony of his family's apartment onto a concrete floor.
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Kapil Dev grants Indian migrant's last wish
(AFP)
Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:57:08 GMT
 AFP - Legendary cricketer Kapil Dev Sunday helped grant the final wish of an Indian migrant who died in Australia 63 years ago -- to bring his ashes back home.
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Australian opposition promises fewer migrants
(AFP)
Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:44:13 GMT
 AFP - Australia's opposition leader Tony Abbott Sunday vowed to slash the nation's migrant intake if elected prime minister, but said he wanted citizens to have more babies to boost the birth rate.
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Quake strikes off Tonga, Samoa; no damage reported
(AP)
Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:33:16 GMT
AP - The U.S. Geological Survey says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6 has struck the South Pacific off the coasts of Tonga, Samoa and American Samoa.
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Australia PM offers 'cash for clunkers' climate policy
(AFP)
Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:25:02 GMT
 AFP - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard Saturday pledged 400 million dollars (360 million US) to take old cars off the road and vowed to impose tougher fuel standards as part of her election policy on climate change.
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Australian govt consolidates lead over opposition: poll
(Reuters)
Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:33:34 GMT
 Reuters - Australia's Labor government has consolidated its election-winning lead over the conservative opposition one week into the campaign for the August 21 election, a poll published on Saturday showed.
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U.S. won't move Marines from Japan by 2014: media
(Reuters)
Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:16:38 GMT
Reuters - Washington has given up on moving 8,000 U.S. Marines to the U.S. territory of Guam from Japan by 2014, media said on Friday, a potential blow to Prime Minister Naoto Kan who is already struggling over a U.S. base dispute.
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