Denim is 'too fun' to wear to school 2006-01-30 01:04:34
An Australian state plans to ban students from wearing denim because it is linked with having a good time and is "unacceptable at schools".Full Story...
Jilted NZ husband jailed for two years 2006-01-27 01:36:36
How do you get your wife's attention when things aren't going so well in your marriage? Don't follow the example of a New Zealand man who has been jailed after stealing a plane and threatening to crash it into a 328m-high tower.Full Story...
Australian towns on alert after homes razed 2006-01-26 00:06:05
Raging bushfires have killed two people and thousands of farm animals after destroying more than 20 homes in south-eastern Australia.Full Story...
Extra cops to watch for Australia Day fights 2006-01-25 04:25:52
More than 1 200 extra police will be deployed in Sydney on Australia's national day to prevent any flare-up of racial violence that recently rocked the city's beachside suburbs, an official has announced.Full Story...
HIV-positive man faces jail for 'unsafe' sex 2006-01-24 09:19:11
A South African-born man faces 45 years in prison if he is found guilty of endangering the lives of three Australian women after he had sex with them and failed to inform them of his HIV-positive status.Full Story...
Whale vomit worth going back for 2006-01-24 00:55:27
An Australian fisherman who found a mysterious, solid, fatty object on the beach must be glad he eventually decided to take it home: it turned out to be a piece of rare ambergris, and is worth a cool million.Full Story...
More bark than bite in Year of the Dog? 2006-01-24 00:48:05
Be on the lookout for diseases involving livestock or lungs this year, especially coming from the west. Drought and fires could be a problem this year as well, Chinese soothsayers say.Full Story...
Two killed as bushfires ravage homes 2006-01-23 03:11:41
Firefighters are battling to contain a massive wave of bushfires which have spread across four states in Australia.Full Story...
Australia arrests Serb for war crimes 2006-01-20 04:25:44
Dragan Vasiljkovic, a former Serb commander, has been arrested and charged with war crimes committed during Croatia's war of independence after a request from the Croatian government.Full Story...
Prisoner makes fast escape from Sydney jail 2006-01-18 03:17:21
An inmate lost more than 10kg so he could squeeze through a hole he chiselled in a brick wall and escape from a maximum security jail in Sydney.Full Story...
Joyriding seven-year-old crashes parents' car 2006-01-17 03:51:37
A seven-year-old Australian girl has crashed her parents' car - but only because she was too short to get a proper view over the four-wheel drive's dashboard.Full Story...
Judge slams delay of 'Bali Nine' sentencing 2006-01-17 03:26:43
Indonesian prosecutors have failed to win a two-week delay before making their sentence demand for the first of nine Australians charged with heroin trafficking in Bali.Full Story...
Diver blinded by own blood as shark attacks 2006-01-16 08:07:14
An Australian scuba diver has described in detail how a huge great white shark kept coming back after savaging his arm, while he hid in a reef, unable to see for all the blood in the water.Full Story...
Australia sends more troops to Afghanistan 2006-01-10 01:08:27
A fresh commitment by Australia to send 110 soldiers to Afghanistan came in response to requests for more troops from Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai and the governments in Washington and London, according to Defence Minister Robert Hill.Full Story...
A new spin to an age-old game 2006-01-10 05:29:45
Robin Toom of Townsville, Australia literally got himself caught up in a game of hide-and-seek.Full Story...
Australian girl dies after jellyfish attack 2006-01-09 02:25:02
A seven-year-old girl has died after she was stung by a box jellyfish while swimming at Umagico Beach on Cape York Peninsula in tropical Queensland, according to police officials.Full Story...
Five skydivers killed in plane crash 2006-01-02 01:04:38
Five people were killed when a plane carrying a group of skydivers plunged into a dam near Brisbane in eastern Australia.Full Story...
Cool weather helps dampen Australian fires 2006-01-02 01:40:59
Light rain and lower temperatures across south-eastern Australia have helped contain scores of bushfires that destroyed 15 homes and vast areas of farmland.Full Story...
Australian fires destroy homes 2006-01-01 02:54:40
Bushfires have destroyed at least one home and threatened others north of Sydney as scorching temperatures and hot, dry winds fanned fires across southeastern Australia.Full Story...
Fires hit Australia in blistering conditions 2005-12-30 02:59:50
A total controlled-fire ban has been declared across south-east Australia to curb the outbreak of any wild fires in scorching, tinder-dry conditions.Full Story...
Australian police shut bogus banking sites 2005-12-29 06:06:17
Eight websites in Europe and Asia, involved in an e-mail banking scam, have been turned off by Australian police.Full Story...
Teacher's payout stuns Australians 2005-12-29 02:13:29
A 52-year-old teacher, who was sacked from an Australian high school after starting up a romance with a 15-year-old pupil, has won a payout from the Workers Compensation Commission on the grounds that the incident had left him depressed.Full Story...
Media mogul Packer dies 2005-12-27 00:18:31
Billionaire Kerry Packer, owner of Australia's top rating television network and a magazine empire, has died.Full Story...
Crash victims saved by Australian fisherman 2005-12-26 00:51:16
A fisherman came to the rescue of two people whose small plane crashed off the north-east coast of Australia after it suffered engine failure.Full Story...
Australian forensics to target fake passports 2005-12-26 01:12:59
Australia is sending two forensic experts to south-east Asia as part of a crackdown on terrorists and other criminals using false passports.Full Story...
Beach bonding in Sydney 2005-12-25 05:11:10
Thousands of people flocked to Sydney's Bondi Beach to enjoy Christmas Day in the sun, despite recent outbreaks of racial violence that shattered the calm at nearby seaside suburbs.Full Story...
Oz beach battle exposes surfing's dark side 2005-12-21 04:08:52
Before the recent ethnic riots in some of Sydney's most popular seaside communities, surfing has long been a fractious establishment where those on the coast and those living inland have waged war.Full Story...
Woman wins right to use dead husband's sperm 2005-12-20 02:52:06
An Australian woman has won a long court battle to be allowed to impregnate herself with her dead husband's sperm.Full Story...
Crackdown curbs violence on Sydney beaches 2005-12-19 00:42:49
Australian police say a security crackdown at beaches in southern Sydney has curbed a repeat of race riots.Full Story...
Race riots empty Sydney beaches 2005-12-18 06:11:21
Fears of a new eruption of racial violence have intensified after the seizure of petrol bombs and other weapons in Sydney, Australia - leaving the city's famous beaches eerily deserted.Full Story...
Sydney beaches deserted as police patrol 2005-12-17 07:23:32
A week after racial violence erupted in Sydney, surfers, swimmers and sunbathers were outnumbered by police at beaches as road blocks were set up and people heeded advice to stay away.Full Story...
Sydney police impose zero tolerance measures 2005-12-16 00:22:27
Australian police have launched their biggest security operation since the 2000 Sydney Olympics in an attempt to halt further racial unrest.Full Story...
Police in Sydney given power to 'lock down' 2005-12-15 01:51:19
The Australian parliament has passed special laws which will beef up Sydney police's powers in an effort to quell racial unrest in parts of the city.Full Story...
Police seek to stop third night of rioting 2005-12-13 03:46:14
More than 450 police officers - four times the usual number - will patrol Sydney's streets to prevent another night of racial violence by youth gangs who have attacked people, smashed cars and hurled rocks at police.Full Story...
'Suspicion, alienation' fuel race riots 2005-12-12 23:09:42
The race riots in Sydney were sparked by a complex combination of suspicion towards men of Arab descent heightened by the rise of Islamic militancy and the exclusive white culture of a beach-side suburb where few immigrants have settled, analysts believe.Full Story...
Violence continues in Sydney 2005-12-12 12:19:58
Youths have continued to run rampant on the streets of Sydney but Prime Minister John Howard has denied that it is motivated by underlying racism in Australian society.Full Story...
Australians are too fat to fight, report says 2005-12-12 06:04:21
Many young Australians are either too drug-addled or too fat to join the army, with the number of new recruits expected to decrease in the next five years, a defence force report has said.Full Story...
Warnings did not spark race riots - Howard 2005-12-12 00:24:41
Thirty people were injured at Cronulla beach, Sydney, after mobs of youths attacked people of Middle Eastern appearance in one of the worst racial clashes in Australian history.Full Story...
Undersea quake jolts area off Papua 2005-12-11 12:21:54
An undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 has shaken an area off the coast of Papua New Guinea.Full Story...
Racial tensions spark beach attack 2005-12-11 12:04:09
Racial tension erupted into violence on a Sydney beach when thousands of people, some yelling racist chants, attacked youths of a Middle Eastern background, saying they were defending their stretch of beach.Full Story...
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