Brisbane (Australia) joins top-3 world cities for most-expensive public transportation?

World first “hybrid shark” found off Australian coast in large numbers

Croatian official fired after “drunken and crazy” comments aimed at Aussie and NZ tourists

2 dead in Australia after eating toxic Death Cap mushrooms

Vegemite to be renamed ‘Australia.’ But why?

Hot air balloon crash kills 11 in New Zealand

Appeals for release of 3 Australians held aboard Japanese whaling ship

Video captures moment Aussie bungee jumper’s cord breaks (VIDEO)

Number of Aussies arrested abroad doubles in 10 years

Sea Shepherd lets Australia foot bill for retrieving anti-whaling activists from Japanese ship

“Lesbian vampire killer” Tracey Wigginton released after 20 years in Australian jail

Much ado about a paralyzed kangaroo named Irwin in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma

Apps that teach kids about breast enlargement, weed and how to sexually harrass?

Australia: the truth about asylum seekers

Australasians celebrate the feats of Douglas Mawson with ceremony in Antarctica

Shark attack Down Under was “just like Jaws” … or was it?

‘Racist’ Australian Constitution should be changed to recognize Aborigines as original inhabitants, experts say

Australian bank asks outgoing staff to train cheaper Indian replacements: report

Analysts warn of “Eurogeddon” Down Under, despite Teflon-coated Australian economy

President Barack Obama wishes Down Under a Happy Australia Day

Australian police say they will not investigate the Tony Abbott location leak (VIDEO)

Tony Abbott pushes for federal police inquiry into Australia Day security breach (VIDEO)

Australia’s Julia Gillard and Labor Party lose ground in polls

Gina Rinehart, Australian billionaire, seeks bigger stake in Fairfax media

Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart fails in bid to suppress details of family fued

With leadership speculation rife, Australia’s ruling Labor Party fires up the barbie

Soaring dollar sends Aussies overseas on the cheap

Animal cruelty caught on camera in Australian slaughterhouse (VIDEO)

Sydney: now (much) more expensive than New York. Why?

Australia: UK man survives bite on testicle by deadly Tasmanian tiger snake

Air Australia runs out of gas, leaving thousands stranded Down Under and overseas

Kevin Rudd, former Australian prime minister, drops the F-bomb in YouTube video

YouTube video fuels speculation Kevin Rudd will challenge Julia Gillard for Australia’s top job

Kevin Rudd quits as Australian foreign minister after chat with Hillary Clinton

Kevin Rudd, former Aussie foreign minister, plots his next move from a Washington DC hotel room

Australians would pick Kevin Rudd over Julia Gillard, polls suggest

Australia’s ruling Labor Party rejects wildly popular Kevin Rudd as leader a second time

Australian soccer gives billionaire team owner Clive Palmer the boot

Australian treasurer Wayne Swan calls Australia’s rich a threat to democracy

Julia Gillard quiets critics with choice of new Australian Foreign Minister

Many Australian school students think yogurt grows on trees, study finds

Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart makes Forbes rich list, but do we care?

Marine who murdered Sydney nurse jailed for life Down Under

Aussies getting poorer but smarter? Survey weighs Australian ‘wellbeing’

Julia Gillard’s fortunes improve, but Australia’s Labor Party losing support, polls show

Aussie ad has Irish crying ’50s-style discrimination

Australians to put same-sex marriage to a vote … of sorts (VIDEO)

Australian Chinese are asking for a fair crack of the whip

Aussie thief boosts a Porsche and a six-pack … to go

“Gas-less” roo holds clues to cutting greenhouse emissions

Australian charged over “sausage roll” bomb threat

Australia ends live export ban

Australian “Bali Nine” heroin smuggler loses appeal

Australian politician to apologize over meowing incident

Gargantuan wombat the size of an SUV stuns scientists

Australia slaps tax on worst carbon polluters

Australian scientists give meditation a clinical thumbs up

Australia’s alcohol industry introduces health warnings (VIDEO)

Former PM’s sister offends gays, Jews with “global gay Gestapo” comment

Possum torture ‘worst case of abuse’ in Tasmanian history