Know Before You Go: 29 Abandoned Uranium Mines to be Incorporated into Kakadu!

Kakadu National Park is a major destination and highlight for many travellers to Australia. One of the issues surrounding the park that travel ...

Microsoft Office To include Aussie Slang! S'truth!!!

Fair Dinkum! Believe it. Microsoft Australia has decided it is high time to add Australian slang to it's diction ...

Daily Dose- G-20, Aussie's top Box Office, and The Opera House: 7th Wonder of the World?

Melbourne's G20 summit has been hailed a success and the friendliest held since the group's inception seven years ago Australian director George Miller and his troupe ...

The Australian Spirit in Elle Macpherson!

Do do dodo do doo dooo... refrains of MC Hammer's Can't Touch This are running through my head! Elle Macpherson, Australia's very own "Body" a ...

Daily Dose- We didn't start the fire! News topics in OZ

Even Though Australia seems and idyllic place most of the time, there is still plenty of unpleasantness to go around. Here are a few of the more recent big issues in the news.

Daily Dose! America is at War with Vegemite!

"In Australia the slogan is that Vegemite puts a rose in every cheek; but today America has slapped the cheek of every Australian." Weekend reports from Australian and New Zealand media said some people had been searched or a ...

Crikey! Poor Steve!

Before his untimely death that rocked Australia as a nation, Steve and his wife Terri Irwin set up an organisation called Wildlife Warriors to help wildlife in Australia and overseas. As in all of the press here today- Terri and t ...

Plea to smoke after paid sex

I just have to laugh and shake my head at this one.... BROTHELS should be exempt from Australia’s tough anti-smoking laws because it is a tradition for prostitutes and their customers to enjoy a cigarette together after having ...

Old, fat, asthmatic, addicted? Your country still needs you

Wow. SYDNEY - Australia is so desperate for soldiers that the middle-aged are now being recruited. “Why can’t we have people who might be well into their 50s, where there’s a whole variety of tasks that might be undertaken ...

Rescuers free Australian gold miners

Hurray! Rescuers have freed two Australian gold miners who had been trapped underground for two weeks after a cave-in that killed a co-worker, the mine's manager said Tuesday. Todd Russell, 35, and Brant Webb, 37, had been trapp ...

Police crack down on eating drivers

Don't plan on multi-tasking if you're driving through NT! TERRITORY police intend to get tough on drivers using mobile phones, eating, drinking or even adjusting radios and mirrors while behind the wheel. They will also be look ...

Mine Antarctica, says Joyce

CONTROVERSIAL Queensland Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce has said Australia should mine Antarctica before another country gets in first. He said if Australia did not start exploiting the mineral wealth of Antarctica soon, then oth ...

For the Birds

Political correctness is taking over Australia...or, at least, American companies in Australia... An aquatic theme park in Australia has renamed a species of penguins on exhibit lest the birds' real name, fairy penguins, cause of ...

Australia considers testing immigrants

In a move that's sure to anger people on both sides of the immigration issue in Australia...especially since they single out Muslims in particular... Australia's conservative government has said it is considering testing immigran ...

Australia Sent Wrong Body After First Soldier Dies in Iraq

This is just scary- how horrible for the families! It makes me wonder about the families all over the world that are shipped back unidentifiable remains... Australia was sent the wrong body after the nation's first soldier died ...

Injured Aussies arrive in Cairo

Two Australian woman are coping with their injuries sustained this week during the third attack in the Sinai peninsula in a year and a half. Both women are in stable condition and undergoing surgery soon.

Jetstar sacks attendant over looks

Going goth is no way to make friends - at least at Jetstar. An attendant (who also works as a model) was recently fired for her dark eye-makeup and nail color...despite looking the same as she did when she was hired. Can anybody ...

Drug Smuggling Idiots: HK Version

Three Australians will be celebrating their next nine-13 birthdays in prison after being sentenced for attempting to smuggle 700+ grams of heroin in their stomachs from Hong Kong to Sydney last year. Although they initially plead ...

Never Bloody Ending

More problems for the 'bloody' advertising campaign...they don't know how to translate it into other languages! This could be an issue, seeing as how Japanese are one of the top target groups for the Australian Tourism Board.... ...

Angela Goode: Tourism ads are offensive and sell us short

The tourism controversy hasn't gone away - a guest column reams the advertisement, saying that tourism Australia would be better off catering to the rick, stuffy folk. With rich, stuffy ads. Bah. I think she would be better off ...

Where the Bloody Hell Are You Spoofs

Spoofs quickly followed the release of the controversial tourism video '

Update on Cyclone Aftermath

Around 7,000 people have been left homeless in the aftermath of Cyclone Larry. The hardest hit town, Innisfail, held a massive BBQ yesterday to feed the local community with meat from butchers who were without power, and would ot ...

Cyclone Larry Leaves Thousands Homeless

Further proof that global wraming is coming to get you after the hardest storm in 30 years trashed northeastern Queensland on Monday. Metal roofs littered streets, wooden houses lay in splinters and banana plantations were stripp ...

Kangaroo Leads Austrian Cops on Snow Chase

I don't know why, but kangaroos in other countries - especially ones with snow - always crack me up. This is no exception: VIENNA, Austria - A kangaroo led police in southern Austria on a snow chase Thursday after it jumped the ...

Out for $20,000 - a punter's nightmare

Talk about counting your chickens before they hatch...a sure-thing mid-game bet went sour for a few gamblers who decided to bet exorbitant amounts of money - $20,000 - in order to 'earn a quick $200'. Ouch. After Australia posted ...

Bloody hell! UK censors risque Aussie ads

It was only a matter of time - I first mentioned the controversial ads last week. Now, holding true to their 'stiff upper lip' reputation, the Br ...

Growing Aussies Need Sturdier Toilets

More proof that Maccas is eeeevil...or that, like Americans, Australians have no sense of food-eating control.

Yachtswoman All At Pee

A woman survived the on a dinghy stranded in the ocean for five days by drinking her own urine. This is interesting enough, however, what really gets me is, "She was eventually rescued after calling friends on her mobile phone." ...

Australian woman charged with poisoning

Mmm...yummy....rat poisoning. Just what I want to have with my meal. Apparently, Jacqueline Forbes left some green pellets in vegetable soup, sickening 4 people. The most bizarre twist? Sizzler didn't report it until a month af ...

Drug Smuggling Idiots Part III: Fish fillet drug bust

Here's a new place to put your drug-filled condoms...in fish! My question is, yes, it might cover the smell (perhaps?) but aren't little fishes restricted items that you have to declare when traveling overseas? Read all about it ...