With a variety of rides and a carnival atmosphere, Australian theme parks are a particular attraction for families and for the young and the young at heart. Mostly, when Australians, ... Read More

If you've seen a rugby union match with the powerful New Zealand team, the All Blacks, you could have heard and witnessed this fierce Maori chant and challenge. Of course, ... Read More

The National Ballet of China production of Raise the Red Lantern opens tonight at Sydney's Capitol Theatre. It is the Chinese ballet company's first tour of Australia with eight performances at ... Read More

In the Perth metropolitan area, Maalinup is an indigenous art gallery and gift shop that is both Aboriginal-owned and Aboriginal-operated. Its Aboriginal products, paintings, craft items and giftware, including real returning ... Read More

Karak, the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games mascot, bade goodby to participants and guests alike at the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony which marked the end of competition at the quadrennial Friendly ... Read More

On the final day of competition at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games, Australia won gold in both the women's and men's cycling road race. Australian cyclist Natalie Bates won gold in ... Read More

New Zealand runner Nicholas Willis won the gold medal in the men's 1500m final in the time of 3:38.49 at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games today. In second place ... Read More

With the announcement yesterday of this year's winners in Australia's Archibald, Photographic Portrait, Sulman and Wynne Prizes, the corresponding exhibition of winners and finalists opens today at the Art Gallery ... Read More

Australia's Nathan Deakes became the first male walker to defend the 20km and 50km titles at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. Deakes smashed his own Commonealth Games record by completing ... Read More

Australia's Jana Pittman led Australia's charge for gold on Day 8 of competition at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games by winning the 400m hurdles in a new Commonwealth Games record ... Read More

John Steffensen of Australia has won the 400m track event, followed by Alleyne Francique of Grenada, second, and Jermaine Gonzales of Jamaica. third, in the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. Steffensen's win ... Read More

Australia's male swimmers had their turn at winning gold when the Aussies won the men's 4x100m medley relay at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. In second place was England, followed ... Read More

That's Perth's seaport at the mouth of the Swan River, a historic site of colonial convict buildings and, in more recent times, home to the America's Cup in 1983-87. Only ... Read More

Australia was swimming in gold on the fifth day of competition at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. 100m breaststroke In the 100m breaststroke final, Liesel Jones added another gold medal to her ... Read More

Australians made a clean sweep of the 20km walk at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games today. Australians Jane Saville and Nathan Deakes, both Commonwealth defending champions, took the gold in the ... Read More

Ferocious Winds Lash Far North Queensland Tropical cyclone Larry has struck far north Queensland south of Cairns. The cyclone has been compared in its destructive fury to the US hurricane Katrina ... Read More

Australia's Kerryn McCann has won the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games women's marathon in 2:30.53, beating Kenya's Hellen Cherono Koskei in a closely contested race which saw the two frontrunnners ... Read More

Australian swimmer Libby Lenton smashed the previous Commonwealth Games record in the 100m women's freestyle event when she finished first in tonight's 100m freestyle final at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth ... Read More

Australians have won in both the women's and men's triathlon held today at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. Australia's Emma Snowsill won the gold medal in the women's triathlon this morning ... Read More

For many visitors to Australia, opals are a distinctively Australian purchase whether for one's self or to give away as gifts. It's important to know the different types of opal ... Read More

Following Australia's clean sweep in the women's 200m individual medley swimming event on Day 1 of the Melbourne Commonwealth Games, Day 2 saw two more clean sweeps by Australia: in ... Read More

New Zealand, the defending Commonwealth Games gold medalists, won the Rugby 7s championship tonight in Melbourne, defeating England 29-21. Fiji won the bronze medal by defeating Australia 24-17. This is ... Read More

It's gold, gold, gold for Australia in the Commonwealth Games shooting events today. Men's 50m pistol pairs In the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games, Australians David Moore and Bruce Quick took silver in ... Read More

The reality of life in Australia during World War II when many experienced the terror of air and sea attacks is brought back in stark focus in a new exhibition ... Read More

In the women's swimming event, the 200m individual medley, first, second and third places went to Australian swimmers Stephanie Rice, Brooke Hanson and Lara Carroll on the first day of ... Read More

Karak, mascot of the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games, is a red-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii graptogyne), an endangered Australian southeastern subspecies distinguished by its small size, brightly colored females and ... Read More

Queen Elizabeth II opened the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games tonight during the opening ceremony which included events on the Yarra River and within the Melbourne Cricket Ground, capped by a ... Read More

Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, today attended a ceremonial welcome at the Sydney Opera House forecourt. The Queen's arrival was marked by a 21-gun ... Read More

It's Labor Day in Victoria (Eight Hours Day in Tasmania) and today's the day of the big Moomba parade in Melbourne. With the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games and Festival Melbourne ... Read More

The replica of Captain James Cook's 18th-century sailing ship, the Endeavour, is on its way to Melbourne in conjunction with the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games opening on March 15. The ... Read More

Australia Post is celebrating the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games with special commemerative postage stamp issues. As many as 100 different designs are expected to be released covering the opening and ... Read More

A prominent feature of this year's Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts is Writers' Week which runs from March 5 to 10 at Adelaide's Pioneer Women's Gardens. Australian and overseas writers ... Read More

The Mardi Gras Parade is the colorful public climax of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras which this year opened on February 3. The parade started at Hyde Park ... Read More

This year's Adelaide Festival of Arts brings excitement to South Australia's capital city from March 3 to 19 with more than 70 events, some 1200 artists and performers, and more ... Read More

And so we bade goodbye to summer last night, and today welcome autumn. The southern autumn starts on March 1 and ends on May 31. In Sydney, it is ... Read More