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President Barack Obama is likely to visit Australia in 2010 perhaps in combination with a trip to India or Indonesaia.

What do you think?" asks Carmel Murdoch. She points at the statue, reminding me to call her "Mary Heritage" because she's dressed in a 1850s period costume.

Brisbane - Australia's Friendliest City - Welcomes Britney Spears. Britney Shops in City's Premier CBD Shopping Hub Queen's Plaza Britney shops in Brisbane's most up-market retail centre It is great to see that Britney Spears is able to enjoy her time-out in Australia doing normal things with her kids.

Two giant pandas from China were welcomed to Australia on Saturday with gifts of bamboo and a city party before settling into their new home, a 25-acre natural enclosure at the Adelaide Zoo.

AUSTRALIAN parents have been warned against buying cheap, discount toys as Christmas presents after hundreds of toys were found containing dangerous amounts of lead.

Singer Britney Spears arrives at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards held at Gibson Amphitheatre on August 9, 2009 in Universal City, California.

Cases of attacks on Indians in Australia have increased more than five fold this year compared to last year, the Rajya Sabha was informed today.

Wang Wang and Funi are due to arrive in Adelaide on Saturday at 7:45 a.m. local time after a long trip from their home at the Panda Protection and Research Center at Ya'an in China's Sichuan Province.

SYDNEY>> When Steve Franklin bought four plane tickets on Qantas last June, he faced an unexpected expense: a surcharge of 7.70 Australian dollars on each of the 136.70-dollar tickets -- just for using his Visa credit card.

Australian News.Net Wednesday 25th November, 2009 Photographs published Wednesday in Australia of an anonymous couple having sex in a Sydney clock tower in full view of midday shoppers sparked a flurry of confessions on talkback radio.

Golden Gate Bridge officials announced Tuesday they are seeking a firm to develop interactive programs that would allow visitors to get a "behind the scenes" look at the span.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Airlines will launch two new weekly non-stop flights from Kuala Lumpur to Brisbane effective March 28, 2010.

Destination of the week : Leon, Spain Is this northern Spain's loveliest city? Decide for yourself by watching 48 Hours In ... on Travel Channel at 9pm on Tuesday.

PARENTS desperate to save NSW's only boarding school for severely disabled children are appealing to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to stop its closure.

West Indies captain Chris Gayle, who left his team's tour of Australia to be with his sick mother, will head Down Under tomorrow and hopes to play in the first Test, Jamaican media has reported.

This airfare-only deal out of L.A. takes you to Sydney and then Cairns, with a free tour in each city.

QANTAS has moved to reassure passengers that an engineers strike would not ground flights and travellers could check departure times on mobile phones and its website.

VIRGIN Blue chief Brett Godfrey says he hopes airfares will return to stronger prices soon.

With a mountain of luggage and Jack Kerouac as company, Alan Mascarenhas endures a day at LAX.

An 81-year-old Australian man who became lost on an early morning drive to the shops and ended up almost 600 kilometres away told police he failed to stop because he "liked to drive". Eric Steward was visiting friends in Yass, a country town south of Sydney in New South Wales state, when he left to buy a newspaper at about 7:30am on Monday morning.

Centro Properties Group, which became one of the first casualties of the global credit crunch, says there are signs the retail environment in the United States may be improving.

A $107 MILLION bid for Fielders Australia is on the table, although one of the company's feuding shareholders says it has no knowledge of the move.

"It's a heck of a big hole all right," confirms Argyle Diamond Mine tour director Ted Hall as we peer into the cavernous mile-and-a-half-long, 2,000-foot-deep AK1 open pit from an observation deck on the crater-like southern rim.

Sri Lanka will cooperate with Australia to investigate, track down and bring to justice the masterminds who are involved in-migrant smuggling, said President Mahinda Rajapaksa during his meeting with the visiting Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith.

Boy oh boy, it's been awhile since Britney Spears did anything notable, let alone something travel-related, but last week she flew right back onto the scene and it was on a V Australia plane.

David Coe is in hot demand. So much so, that one company has refused to allow the former executive chairman of the failed Allco Finance Group to resign from its board.

Two unprecedented incidents occurred on crocodile cruises on the Daintree River in Far North Queensland recently, and luckily no one was injured.

New Delhi, Nov.11 : Energy starved India, which is pressing hard to ensure sufficient nuclear fuel supply for its drying nuclear reactors, is likely to persuade the visiting Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to open up the uranium sale to India.

Australia should shut the door to thousands of New Zealanders to help stabilise the nation's population at 26 million by 2050, federal Labor backbencher Kelvin Thomson says.

Melbourne, Nov 11 : It's a dream come true for girls everywhere: a Paris-based website has started a competition which offers the winner a one-month tour of seven world cities with a shopping budget of 10,000 Euros, business class travel and luxury accommodation.

When Matthew Hayden arrived at a remote indigenous school on the Tiwi Islands to find a sea of T-shirts reading `we love hay dos' the cricketing legend was overcome with embarrassment.

Britney Spears really does not care what the media opinion of her show is. Controversy erupted after her first Perth show when one journalist finally worked out what the world had known for years a that Britney lip-synchs many of her songs on stage.

Britney Spears has hit back at critical media reports of her Circus tour, saying she came to Australia for her fans.

QANTAS fears Middle Eastern airlines such as Emirates will boost their combined share of the lucrative business-travel market between Australia and Europe to nearly 50 per cent within three years.

Coulomb Technologies, the leader in networked electric vehicle charging stations today announced it has signed ChargePoint Pty Ltd to an exclusive distribution agreement in Australia.

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'Lightning fast buck', 'the fastest gun in the market' and 'high tech trader' are some of the phrases being used by the Australian media to describe the mercurial rise of a derivatives trading whiz-kid, Dinesh 'Danny' Bhandari.

The average Australian household dumps $616 worth of food in the bin each year, according to a new survey.

Ten years to the day since Australians voted to keep the Queen as head of state, a new opinion poll suggests that 59% of them now want a republic.

A revitalised United States due to the election of President Barack Obama has dropped Australia from top spot on a survey of international travellers.

Dorothy and Bernie Quinlivan, the parents of Paul Quinlivan , who disappeared in rough seas off Pebbly Beach last month.

Victorian Premier John Brumby says Melbourne has the edge when it comes to arts, sport and romance / File Melbourne voted most liveable city - poll Victorians 'envy of the rest of Australia' 'Sydney used to be ahead, but not anymore' VICTORIANS were the "envy" of other Australians and Melbourne was the most liveable capital city in Australia by a ...

A man looks at a waxy substance found in water affected by the Montara oil rig leak in the Timor Sea.

Main Category: Primary Care / General Practice Article Date: 03 Nov 2009 - 19:00 PST A tireless doctor who has served her rural NSW community for 25 years, championed rural birthing services and Indigenous health, worked hard to recruit more doctors to the bush and blazed a path for rural female doctors has been named the Westpac RDAA Rural Doctor ...

World champion ironman Shannon Eckstein flew to Tokyo on Tuesday to spearhead a promotion for Australian tourism.

The producer of a new killer shark movie filmed in Queensland denies the film will scare away tourists from the Great Barrier Reef, claiming it may actually boost traveller numbers.

The New South Wales Workers Compensation Commission recently considered a case regarding a claim for workers compensation by an employee, Camilla Scharrer who suffered severe injuries in a motor vehicle accident.

Prince William is coming to visit Australia in January. The prime minister's office says the prince will be here from January 19 to 21, visiting Sydney and Melbourne.

Top Aussie bloggers Lady Melbourne, Girl With a Satchel & Mr Gadget. Picture: Nuffnang Aussies win at overseas blog awards Top bloggers 'not recognised locally' Technology: More gadget news, reviews LADY Melbourne, Mr Gadget and Girl with a Satchel are quirky names little known to most Australians, but overseas they are kicking up a storm.

VICTORIA'S RACV motoring association has won a contract to roll out a European-style bike hire system in central Melbourne.