Oceania News

A private member's bill put forward by Labour MP Phil Goff would require foreign buyers of farmland to demonstrate that their investment would create more jobs or otherwise benefit the economy more than a New Zealand buyer.

Under the agreement, Total will take a share of that size in InterOil's petroleum retention license 15 -- which includes the Elk and Antelope fields -- for $1.5 to $3.6 billion, depending on the size of the gas reserves, InterOil said in a statement.

A state lawmaker and his partner plan to fly 3,500 kilometres across Australia to become one of the nation's first same-sex couples to legally marry at an after-midnight ceremony in the Australian capital.

New Zealand's artist for the 2013 Venice Biennale, Bill Culbert, in the doorway of the New Zealand pavilion in Venice.

With its white sand beaches, tropical climate and relaxed pace, Fiji has rightfully earned a reputation as a South Pacific paradise.

About 100 protesters in East Timor have thrown rocks at the Australian embassy, with police responding with tear gas as a spying row intensifies.

Baby boomers who have amassed enough cash over the 51-year career of the Rolling Stones will have to fork out up to a staggering $580 for the best seat in the house when the British rockers visit Australia next year.

Australian researchers said Thursday they had established the existence of vast freshwater reserves trapped beneath the ocean floor which could sustain future generations as current sources dwindle.

Australian carrier Qantas announced the axing of 1,000 jobs and warned of "immense" challenges ahead in a shock profit downgrade Thursday, flagging a half-year loss of up to Aus$300 million .

Australia's competition regulator will begin public hearings into one of the three bids for Australia's oldest dairy firm early next year, target Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory Co said on Thursday.

Government efforts to entice major global oil and gas producers to New Zealand has borne fruit, with Norway's state-owned Statoil and Australian heavyweight Woodside Petroleum winning exploration licences in the latest permit awards, announced at Parliament.

Campaigners convinced New Zealand's set-net fishing restrictions are a death sentence for the Maui's dolphin have laid cardboard coffins and fishing nets full of plastic junk outside Parliament.

Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa has warned ahead of crucial talks with Australia's top diplomat that Jakarta still expects an explanation of the spying activities that have seen relations with Canberra sink to their lowest point in more than a decade.

With the simple push of a button in front of 25 onlookers, Sydney bade farewell to analog television, 57 years after the first broadcast.

A founding hospitality business which helped turn around a once-desolate rural township into one of New Zealand's busiest stopover, antique and collectibles centres is for sale.

New research has busted myths that Kiwi teens self-harming - a practice that is surging here - are doing it to "be cool" or to seek attention.

Australia's secret service has raided the home of a Canberra lawyer who intends to allege in an international court in The Hague that Australia bugged the East Timorese Cabinet ahead of sensitive oil and gas revenue-sharing negotiations.

An Air Force official holds a brown tree snake. The snakes have caused power outages and unnecessary expenses at Anderson Air Force Base in the U.S. Territory.

Simon McArley determined that both charges against Hutton fell short of the Solicitor-General's guidelines for prosecution.

Statistics New Zealand this morning released key census information on the country's population, its mix of ages and sexes, and where people choose to live: - the average annual population growth between 2006 and 2013 was less than half of the growth between 2001 and 2006 ; - the number of people who had not moved in the previous five years had ... (more)