Australia's ruling Labor Party on Sunday voted to allow uranium sales to India, after Prime Minister Julia Gillard
initiated a reversal of party policy.
Labor Party was previously opposed to selling any of Australia's rich uranium deposits to (...)
A German football player who refused to have an existing two-year contract reduced to one year under instructions from his team owner has been awarded $340,000 in damages after his Australian A-League contract was terminated, according to AP.
On (...)
AlHijjah 29, 1432, Nov 25, 2011, SPA -- Australian wants to create a marine park covering 900,000 square kilometres of the Coral Sea, including the Great
Barrier Reef, dpa reported.
The Coral Sea Commonwealth Marine Reserve would be the (...)
AlHijjah 21, 1432, Nov 17, 2011, SPA -- President Barack Obama said Thursday the United States was switching focus to the Asia-Pacific region now.
"After a decade in which we fought two wars that cost us dearly in
blood and treasure, the United (...)
AlHijjah 20, 1432, Nov 16, 2011, SPA - President Barack Obama is unveiling a new US focus on the Asia-Pacific region during a visit that began in Canberra on Wednesday and will take him to the northern city of Darwin to announce a boost in military (...)
AlHijjah 19, 1432, Nov 15, 2011, SPA - Australia looked set to overturn a ban on selling uranium to India after Prime Minister Julia Gillard changed her position Tuesday to support lifting an embargo.
Since taking office in 2007, the Labor (...)
AlHijjah 4, 1432, Oct 31, 2011, SPA - Australia's Qantas Airways said on Monday it expects to restore its schedule to normal in the next 24 to 48 hours after grounding its entire fleet at the weekend over a protracted labor dispute.
The first (...)
AlQa'dah 15, 1432, Oct 13, 2011, SPA -- A plane carrying 32 passengers crashed in Papua New
Guinea on Thursday killing some of those on board, according to dpa.
The twin-engined Airlines PNG Dash 8 turboprop went down on a
scheduled flight from (...)
AlQa'dah 8, 1432, Oct 6, 2011, SPA -- Australian shares on Thursday posted their biggest
one-day gain since November 2008 with a 2.6-per-cent leap as European
leaders moved to protect banks from the eurozone's debt crisis, according to dpa.
The (...)
AlQa'dah 6, 1432, Oct 4, 2011, SPA - Fifteen people were killed when two tribes went to war in Kainantu in the Eastern Highlands province, Papua New Guinea police said Monday.
Police spokesman Simon Kauba told the Australian national broadcaster (...)
AlQa'dah 5, 1432, Oct 3, 2011, SPA - Fifteen people were killed when two tribes went to war in Kainantu in the Eastern Highlands province, Papua New Guinea police said Monday.
Police spokesman Simon Kauba told the Australian national broadcaster (...)
AlQa'dah 3, 1432, Oct 1, 2011, SPA -- Saudi students, males and females, have commemorated the 81st anniversary of the National Day yesterday, in the presence of the Saudi Ambassador to Australia Hassan bin Talat Nazir.
Ambassador Nazir convoyed (...)
Researchers in Australia have found a possible way
of blocking mosquitoes from infecting humans with dengue fever, according to an article published Thursday.
The new technique consists of infecting the mosquito carrier with bacteria that seem (...)
Eleven people who died in a house fire in Brisbane were from two families sharing accommodation in Australia's third-largest city, police said Wednesday.
Three adults escaped when flames tore apart the two-storey house shared by Pacific Islanders, (...)
Defense officials say an Australian soldier has been killed in Afghanistan.
Australian Defense Force chief Lt. Gen. David Hurley says the soldier was killed Monday by an improvised explosive device while on patrol in Uruzgan province with members (...)
Australian stocks sank 3.5 per cent Friday in response to plunges in the United States and Europe, dpa reported.
The ASX 200 index lost 149 points, or 3.5 per cent, to 4,101.
Gold mining companies were among only eight counters (...)
The global economy was entering a "new and more
dangerous" phase because of the debt crisis in Europe, dpa quoted World Bank
chief Robert Zoellick as warning Saturday.
Zoellick, speaking in an interview with The Australian newspaper,
said (...)
Mining giant Rio Tinto said Thursday its six-month profit jumped 30 percent to a record $7.6 billion, driven by strong Asian demand for iron ore and other minerals, according to AP.
The company's chief executive Tom Albanese said higher iron ore (...)
A strong earthquake has struck off the coast of the Pacific island nation of Fiji. There are no immediate reports of injuries or damage and no tsunami warning has been issued.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the 6.6-magnitude quake struck Friday (...)
Australian police have fired tear gas and shock grenades to quell asylum seekers who set fires at a detention center, AP reported.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Wednesday that such protests would only hurt their chances of getting (...)
Saudi Ambassador to Australia Hassan Talaat Nazer has patronized here in the state of New South Wales a graduation ceremony of 130 Saudi students on scholarships in Australia in the presence of Saudi Cultural Attaché to Australia, Dr. Ali (...)
Several Australian airlines canceled flights into and out of the southern city of Adelaide for Tuesday, when an ash cloud from a Chilean volcano is expected to again move into Australian airspace.
Some service on a budget carrier between the (...)
Virgin Australia airline is joining Qantas and Jetstar in canceling flights between Australia and New Zealand because of ash from a Chilean volcano. Air New Zealand says it's still flying.
According to AP, while Qantas and budget subsidiary Jetstar (...)
The deaths of two Australian soldiers in
Afghanistan brings to 26 the number killed since the first deployment in 2001, Defence Force chief Angus Houston said Tuesday.
One of the soldiers killed Monday was shot by an Afghan soldier while the pair (...)
Akhir 05 , 1432 H. / March 10, 2011 -- The Australian government Thursday removed the last
regulatory hurdle stopping forestry company Gunns Ltd from building a
controversial and long-delayed pulp mill in Tasmania, according to dpa.
The (...)
