Victoria, Australia News

Day 1, off to an early start and out of the door by 8am feeling fine. A crisp but bright morning I headed off in search of coffee and entertainment.... The first port of call being Pelligrini's Bar the Melbourne equivalent of Bar Italia.

WINDSOR'S loss was Arundel's gain when the makers of The Young Victoria were looking for suitable locations.

AUSTRALIA'S last surviving World War II recipient of the Victoria Cross, who was awarded the elite medal for storming a Japanese machine gun post, has died aged 90, officials said on Thursday.

CANBERRA, Australia Australia's unemployment rate rose to a six-year high of 5.8 percent in June as companies shed workers despite the government's massive stimulus spending, official figures showed Thursday.

Victoria Cross winner, Edward Kenna has died aged 90. Map: Geelong 3220 Australia's last remaining World War II Victoria Cross winner, Edward Kenna, has died in a Victorian nursing home.

CANBERRA, Australia - Australian exports sank for the second month in a row in May as falling commodity prices and the global downturn battered an economy showing mixed signs of weathering the worst of the crisis.

MELBURNIANS have shivered through the coldest morning of the year, with the mercury plunging below zero degrees celsius in suburbs across the city.

Fresh-faced teenager Tahnee Atkinson has won this yeara s Australiaa s Next Top Model title.

From The Age : Canberra to act on death penalty ban Cynthia Banham THE Federal Government has written to the states, telling them of its plans to introduce laws banning them from ever reintroducing the death penalty, whether they like it or not.

TWO distinctive paintings by Australian David Boyd - the brother of Arthur - have been pinched from a Canberra gallery, the second art heist in as many months.

Actress Katie Holmes arrives at the stage production of 'Jersey Boys: The Story Of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons' at Princess Theatre on July 5, 2009 in Melbourne, Australia.

South East Asia News.Net Sunday 5th July, 2009 Australia's booming $12 billion education industry seems to have come under a shadow following a string of attacks on Indian students that has now galvanised the government to act.

VICTORIAN miner Bendigo Mining Ltd has acquired the Henty Gold Mine on the west coast of Tasmania from Barrick Australia.

The Cruise family is down under at the moment, and Sunday Tom, Katie and Suri went to the stage production of 'Jersey Boy' in Melbourne, Australia.

The conference was addressed by Marxist historian Humphrey McQueen, former coalminer and climate activist Graham Brown and a number of movement activists from different communities.

Australian News.Net Saturday 4th July, 2009 Dharamsala, July 4 : Australian lawmaker Michael Danby has said that Australia will hold a 'Harmony March' in Melbourne in solidarity with Indian students on July 12.

A 29-year-old Ballarat man allegedly found with more than 200,000 child pornography images has been released on bail.

Momentum Pictures have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of The Young Victoria on 13th July 2009 priced at 19.99 RRP.

Across Victoria, State and Emergency Service volunteers responded to more than 600 requests for assistance.

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