Victoria, Australia News

The red carpet was rolled out Thursday night for Hollywood royalty and the Royal Family alike for the premiere of 'The Young Victoria.' Along with Martin Scorsese , Sarah Ferguson produced the biographical tale of Queen Victoria 's first years on the throne.

ALCOA Australia will lay off about 150 workers, with 90 of those jobs to be scrapped from its Geelong operations, as the global financial crisis hits global demand and the strong Australian dollar erodes profitability.

A top official in the California State University system wasted more than $152,000, according to a report released Thursday by state Auditor Elaine Howle.

The denial of funding to the Atheists Convention is further proof of the Government's courting of the religious right.

Indonesia's censors have banned "Balibo," an Australian-made film about five foreign journalists who were killed by Indonesian troops during the 1975 invasion of East Timor.

Canberra, Nov. 30 : Despite a string of racial attacks on Indian students, Australia's education sector grew by 22.6 percent this year, generating earnings of 9.5 billion dollars from international students against last year's 1.3 billion dollars.

A new national telephone-based warning system that will alert Australians in the event of a life-threatening emergency will begin operating next week.

IT may take decades for police to get on top of alcohol-fuelled violence in Melbourne, Victoria Police chief Simon Overland is expected to say in a speech today.

DID American whalers discover the east coast of Australia before Captain Cook? That is the intriguing question a crack team of maritime archaeologists, divers and marine scientists hope to answer when they sail tomorrow for a remote reef 450 kilometres off the coast of Queensland.

Police are concerned for the safety of a 22-year-old intellectually disabled man who has been missing from his home in northern Victoria since walking his dog on Sunday.

Tamils look over a fence as they stand inside a camp in Vavuniya. Sri Lanka has been criticised for actions that earlier this year led to thousands being displaced without proper humanitarean access.

The Federal Secretary of the Australian Nursing Federation , Ged Kearney, has been nominated as a candidate to run for the head of the country's peak union body, the ACTU, it was announced today.

Barbara of Melbourne, Australia's "1700" conducted an interview with the Miami, Florida-based metalcore band POISON THE WELL when the group played in Melbourne in October 2009.

As usual, two meetings were conducted in Victoria on Thursday, with Geelong holding a day fixture and Echuca racing at night.

The last 3 days we spent in Melbourne, an interesting city of contrasts: Nice avenues with trees and beautiful historical buildings are regularly crossed by tiny, shabby back alleys.

VICTORIAN State emergency Services crews have worked through the night to mop up after a thunderstorm swept the state yesterday.

The weekend's downpour provided a last minute reprieve for the region's farmers, who were preparing themselves to battle into an early summer.

Family calls 000 to report 'gas leak' Smells found wafting from the 120kg porker Breaking news: What's happening now A PORTLY pig with flatulence triggered a minor emergency near Bendigo this week when smells wafting from the 120kg porker sparked fears of a potentially dangerous gas leak.

MORE thunderstorms are expected to dump up to 50mm of rain across much of central Victoria after a day of wild weather across the state today.

At altitude or at depth, it seems there's no limit to Tim Holding's dalliances with danger.