Sydney's popular spring horse racing season — as with the Melbourne spring racing carnival, an important lead-up to the Melbourne Cup — has been officially cancelled. Royal Randwick racecourse is ... Read More

For those who wish to travel leisurely by train from Sydney to Perth, the Indian Pacific may be the choice for you. It's one of the long-distance trans-continental trains which ... Read More

Take a look at the New Zealand map and learn a thing or two of this southern hemisphere country southeast of Australia. Get fast facts on the North and South Islands ... Read More

Victorian Racing Authority Confident Event Will Take Place Victoria's racing authority, Racing Victoria, says the Melbourne Cup will take place as scheduled on the first Tuesday of November as it has ... Read More

Horse racing in Sydney and the rest of New South Wales has been suspended indefinitely as the state seeks to isolate and stop the incidence of equine influenza. The suspension ... Read More

Doubts have been expressed on Australia's biggest horse racing event, the Melbourne Cup, taking place on the first Tuesday of November this year. Last Saturday's races in Australia were cancelled as ... Read More

For three days in September, the heads of government of 21 nations will be meeting in Sydney at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. There will be stringent security measures enforced, ... Read More

This year's Wildflower Festival at Kings Park and Botanic Garden in Perth, Western Australia, takes place from September 1 to October 1. When in the Western Australia capital, or within reasonable ... Read More

The Australian film, Strange Bedfellows, starring Paul Hogan, Michael Caton and Pete Postlethwaite, was filmed in the Victorian town of Yackandandah close to the Victorian ski fields. Strange Bedfellows was the ... Read More

It's a double dose of dance for Melbourne and Sydney when The Australian Ballet presents Destiny, first at the State Theatre in Melbourne's Arts Centre, then at the Opera Theatre ... Read More

It's back to medieval days and knights in Balingup, Western Australia, as the town holds its Medieval Carnivale on August 25 and 26. More than 100 residents don medieval costumes ... Read More

One of Australia's biggest country music festivals with a touch of the blues — the National Country Music Muster — opens in Gympie, Queensland, in the Amamoor Creek State Forest ... Read More

Just three to four hours out of Perth, depending on how you drive and how many stops you make, you'll find Margaret River, a region in Western Australia of fine ... Read More

With such illustrious parents as supermare Makybe Diva, winner of three consecutive Melbourne Cup races, and European champion racehorse Galileo, the foal born in the early morning hours of August ... Read More

Evergreen Australian actors Wendy Hughes and Garry Macdonald take to the Melbourne stage in a new production by the Melbourne Theatre Company of Edward Albee's dazzlingly brilliant play Who's ... Read More

The works of Australian-born sculptor Bertram Mackennal (1863-1931) go on display at Sydney's Art Gallery of New South Wales until November 4. While he mostly lived an expatriate life in England ... Read More

Actor Robert de Niro has officially opened the first Nobu restaurant in Australia at the Crown Casino Entertainment Complex at Melbourne's Southbank tonight. Melbourne's Nobu is one of now nearly 20 ... Read More

Thank God for trees. A Queensland cattle stockman saved himself from dangerous crocodiles by clambering up a tree while the crocs waited below. Only problem was: he had to stay ... Read More

Some visitors to New Zealand tend to overlook the national capital, Wellington, since they think it's a bit out of the way, being in the south of the North Island ... Read More

Said to be the only Aboriginal-owned and operated art gallery and gift shop in the Perth metropolitan area, Maalinup must surely be worth a visit for those interested in Aboriginal ... Read More

It's Victoria's largest inland city and it's a city with a golden past, reaching population peaks in the gold rush of the 1850s. From its past as a booming mining ... Read More

With its history of harshness, hardship and death, it is no wonder that the grounds and ruins of Tasmania's Port Arthur convict penitentiary are believed — or at least rumored ... Read More

It's one of Australia's oldest cities and a popular gateway to the heartland of the country's only island state, Tasmania. Fly from almost any major Australian airport or travel by ... Read More

Brisbane is holding Queensland's largest annual event, the Ekka, from August 9 to 18. Along with Sydney and Melbourne, the Ekka is one of the top three agricultural shows in ... Read More

An extraordinary chandelier with bell body and tentacles casts jellyfish in a new light in an exhibition at the Australian National Maritime Museum until February 17, 2008. The two-metre-wide sculpture Discomedusae ... Read More

Award-winning playwright Hannie Rayson's new play The Glass Soldier is having its world premiere in Melbourne at the Arts Centre Playhouse. Rayson's many awards include the Victorian and NSW Premiers' Literary ... Read More

Two of the finalists for best musical in this year's Helpmann Awards, Australia's version of the Tony Awards on Broadway and the Olivier Awards in London, will still be in ... Read More

If you're planning a visit to Canberra in the spring — and the Australian spring is nearly here — Canberra's annual festival of the flowers, Floriade, runs from September 15 ... Read More

Some of the best snowfalls in the Snowy Mountains and the Victorian Alps this season have been turning the New South Wales and Victorian winter wonderland (and Tasmania's, too) into ... Read More

In the northwestern sector of Western Australia roughly northeast of Carnarvon, a 4WD vehicle traverses the vast expanse of the flat, hot Pilbara region, noted for the redness of its ... Read More

Yes, where is the subway and how do you get to it to catch a train? In Sydney the terms subway, underground, tube and metro are not used in reference to ... Read More

In 1997 in a Canberra home, a man was drugged and over the next two days injected with lethal doses of heroin until he died. The story of this case, ... Read More

Less than an hour away from the Western Australia capital of Perth, Yanchep National Park is an area of natural bushland, native wildlife, limestone caves, a lake, walking tracks, and ... Read More