The exhibition Ink: Brett Whiteley and Others has opened at the Brett Whiteley Studio in Surry Hills and continues every Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 4pm until August 20. ... Read More

On April 28, 1996, the relative quiet of Australia's Port Arthur in the Tasman Peninsula was broken by gunfire. Before day’s end, 35 were dead. A Tasmanian had etched a trail ... Read More

Cyclone Monica, a category 5 cyclone, was nearing Darwin just after midnight. The city's Anzac Day rites had been cancelled, and residents were being warned to prepare for the ferocious ... Read More

Australia's national Anzac Day commemoration rites occur at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. See the War Memorial's Anzac Day program. Dawn services and Anzac Day marches occur in a large ... Read More

Cyclone Monica, gathering force in the Gulf of Carpentaria, is expected to hit Arnhem Land in Australia's Northern Territory later today or tomorrow, April 23/24, Australian central standard time which ... Read More

Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of England, Queen of Australia and Queen of New Zealand, marks her 80th birthday today, April 21, British summer time. In today's Europe, Elizabeth II is ... Read More

On Queensland's Sunshine Coast, Noosa is a popular holiday region north of Brisbane and arguably a less touristy place than the Gold Coast. It's close enough to Fraser Island so ... Read More

Ride high in Australia's national capital. It's Balloon Fiesta time in Canberra. The balloons launch from the forecourt of Canberra's Old Parliament House and you can see hot air balloons ... Read More

Easter church services are scheduled at Christian churches throughout Australia and New Zealand. As a guide for what happens elsewhere, Sydney church services include those listed here: St Mary's Catholic ... Read More

The Australian Jockey Club's four-day Easter Racing Carnival begins at Sydney's Royal Randwick Racecourse with the AJC Derby on Saturday, April 15, followed by the Doncaster on Monday, April 17, ... Read More

It's all razzamatazz and a feast of "impossible" feats as Sydney's Darling Harbour celebrates Hoopla, a four-day Easter weekend festival of acrobatics and street theatre with local and interstate performers ... Read More

It's not just the blueness of the sea that attracts visitors to Byron Bay this Easter long weekend. It's the blues. From April 13 to 17 Byron Bay holds its five-day Eastertime ... Read More

Australian racing's 2006 Golden Slipper Festival came to a climax with the running of the Golden Slipper at Sydney's Rosehill Gardens in the afternoon of April 8. The Golden Slipper ... Read More

Mt Tomah Botanic Garden, 1000 metres above sea level in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, is the cool-climate garden of the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens. When in the Mountains, ... Read More

We've seen that bikes can fly. But pigs? The Sydney Royal Easter Show will again demonstrate that, yes, pigs can — and do — fly. It's Showtime! and here are ... Read More