Alice Springs, Australia News

MARK COLVIN: Tourists visiting Uluru have to make a cultural choice at the moment when they decide whether or not to climb the Rock.

Traditional owners have long been opposed to people climbing Uluru. Map: Alice Springs 0870 Climbing to the top of Uluru could be banned in the near future under a proposed draft plan for the popular Central Australian tourist destination.

BEASTS A BURDEN?: The first camels were imported to Australia in the 1840s but because of their intelligence have proved harder to manage than sheep and cattle DPA, SYDNEY Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009, Page 5 They go into houses and they smash the taps, and anywhere where they can smell water they will absolutely destroy the pipes and the taps and the ...

A TODDLER suffered burns and the Alice Springs cinema had to be evacuated as the Northern Territory marked Territory Day in traditional fashion, letting off fireworks.

Q. We have an active son aged 16 and a shopaholic daughter aged 14, and have rashly suggested to them that we might go to Australia in summer 2002.

TWO Victorian men have died after contracting swine flu, bringing the death toll for the state to five.

A man phoned police to say he had spotted the body 150 metres into the riverbed.

A 44-year-old man has been charged with murder over the death of a woman in Alice Springs last night.

NUDISTS have been too shy to book any retreats to a remote homestead in Central Australia.

Man's death "not caused by swine flu" Other conditions blamed for fatality Official flu toll still stands at three A WEST Australian man who had swine flu died from other health issues, South Australia's chief medical officer says.

Bargain of the Week: Calais, more often, for less Anyone seeking a cheap Channel crossing for the school summer holidays has left it late: typical return fares of 200-plus apply for a car and its passengers on Eurotunnel between Folkestone and Calais.

A 26-year-old Perth woman has become the fifth Australian to die after being diagnosed with swine flu, Western Australia's chief health officer says.

About half of the Northern Territory's 78 swine flu cases involve Indigenous people.

A MAN, 26, has become the first person with the swine flu virus to die in Australia.

The Northern Territory now has the highest number of swine flu cases per capita in the country.

ABORIGINAL people swamped the clinic in the remote WA community of Kiwirrkurra yesterday, desperate for answers about how swine flu got there.

AN emergency medical response crew will today rush antiviral drugs and masks to the isolated indigenous community that was home to the first swine flu sufferer to die in Australia.

According to the latest update on the swine flu pandemic , from the World Health Organisation , as of the 19th of June 2009 there have now been 44,287 laboratory-confirmed cases of swine flu worldwide and 180 deaths.

HEALTH authorities have visited a remote Aboriginal community amid fears of a swine flu outbreak after one of its members died in the Royal Adelaide Hospital.

The last time Keith Adams saw Nyarrapyi Giles, she was an emaciated teenage mother trying desperately to keep her two small sons alive in the Gibson Desert while teetering on the brink of death herself.