Oceania News

WE'RE becoming a nation of unit dwellers. With billions worth of developments underway, is it really worth buying off-the-plan? AUSTRALIA is becoming a nation of apartment dwellers with billions worth of developments either underway or proposed within the next five years in our capital cities.

The Union Jack may not last long in the New Zealand flag. NPR's Jacki Lyden talks to journalist Tim Watkin about the flag, which some see as a symbol of British colonialism.

A large python has swallowed a pet dog that was chained up inside its kennel in a backyard in northern New South Wales, Australia.

According to a press release on 13 March 2014 by the Waka Ama NZ, "Rotorua's Blue Lake will play host to 95 schools as they paddle for the national title on their Waka Ama ."

GREENS leader Christine Milne is warning that coast-to-coast conservative governments would represent a "massive attack" on the environment.

Uber summery, electro-pop New Zealanders The Naked and Famous are returning to Cambridge Junction on the last leg of their worldwide In Rolling Waves tour.

In a row reminiscent of a notorious incident just before a key federal poll, the Labor Party has been accused of whipping up racism against a Liberal candidate standing in a marginal seat in today's South Australian election.

Hepatitis A virus can remain infectious on the surface of fruit for months and transmit infection to other handlers and consumers.

Using a new, cutting-edge isotopic tool, researchers have reconstructed the temperature history of a climatically important region in the Pacific Ocean.

Thousands of submissions have been made against a company's application to mine an area of Taranaki seabed.

The thoroughly awesome Alliance Francaise French Film Festival wraps up in Auckland this Sunday, but there are still plenty of exciting screenings before then, and the festival continues throughout the rest of the country country until the end of April.

THIS is the horror scene where an Australian woman was held hostage, tied up with strips of tea towel and a mobile phone charger cord before her brother was brutally murdered in the next room.

Toa was nearly halfway through his two-year mission in the Guam area of Micronesia that he began in April 2013.

The National Government has been accused of "cronyism" over the handling of a donation from a wealthy businessman granted citizenship against official advice.

INGERS CROSSED: Tauhei dairy farmer Blair Jackson needs his paddocks saturated with water but too much rain too soon will be of little benefit.

Born and raised in Eugene, Julia Harvey got interested in marine biology as a second-grader at Spring Creek School.

Premier Jay Weatherill insists creating jobs is at the heart of what his Labor government is about, despite official figures showing South Australia's unemployment rate remains the worst of all the mainland states.

Australia announced plans Thursday for a fleet of giant high-tech unmanned drones to help patrol the nation's borders, monitoring energy infrastructure and attempts to enter the country illegally.

The Government said shares in Genesis Energy would be priced in a $1.35 to $1.65 range and would include a one for 15 loyalty bonus share offer for New Zealand investors.

From enamelled flies to typography to decorating the streets in lei, New Zealands most promising young designers and world-renowned jewellers will be making their mark in three major exhibitions in Germany.