Australia and New Zealand Rugby World Cup teams have made clean sweeps of their pool matches and now go into the quarter-finals on October 2 local time, in France and ... Read More

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is without doubt one of the country's most visited destinations, and the place new visitors to Australia plan to go to. But the Reef is all of ... Read More

The stage adaptation of the 1994 Australian film comedy The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert opens in Melbourne with preview performances from tonight. Priscilla the Musical opened in Sydney ... Read More

Sydney's historical precinct, The Rocks, is where Capt Arthur Phillip and the men of the First Fleet established the first European settlement in Australia in 1788. Close to the transport hub ... Read More

The quintessential Outback town that is Alice Springs lies in the Red Centre of Australia along the north-south train route of the Ghan. It is close to Uluru at the ... Read More

Not too many know it, but on Sundays at noon there's didgeridoo playing and Aboriginal dancing at Sydney's Australian Museum. It's surprising what one finds at the museums. At the Australian ... Read More

Perth's Claremont Showground comes alive on September 29, the first day of the Perth Royal Show which combines carnival experiences with a fun fair atmosphere, exhibitions, entertainment, sideshow rides, showbags ... Read More

For close encounters of the bird (and animal) kind, Phillip Island is hard to beat. Experience the twilight parade of the fairy penguins, observe the fur seals, shearwaters, koalas and ... Read More

The first Sydney horse races open to the public, since an outbreak of equine influenza stopped horse movements in New South Wales, was to take place today at Rosehill Gardens ... Read More

Well, they're having a Dunny Derby in Winton's Outback Festival which opens on September 26 and continues until September 30. And if you don't know what a dunny is, check ... Read More

The Labor Day long weekend is coming and Sydney's Darling Harbour is having its Fiesta. Darling Harbour Fiesta has the reputation of being Australia's largest Latin American festival featuring music and ... Read More

Just south of Royal National Park, along the Grand Pacific Drive, you're likely to find hang gliders and paragliders taking off from Bald Hill and sailing with grace in the ... Read More

In the Kimberley region of Western Australia, the Bungle Bungle (Purnululu) National Park is distinguished by its rounded rock towers striped horizontally in alternating orange and black. And, yes, Western Australia, ... Read More

Milford Sound is 22 kilometres long, a long narrow fiord off the Tasman Sea which is hedged in by cliffs, peaks and waterfalls, on the southwestern edge of New Zealand’s ... Read More

For Australia and New Zealand rugby fans: On September 15 local time, in their second-round pool matches, Australia defeated Wales, 32-20, in Cardiff, Wales, and New Zealand defeated Portugal, 108-13, ... Read More

If you're in Sydney next weekend, walk over to Darling Harbour for some Korean festival fun when the Korea Chuseok (Thanksgiving) Festival 2007 comes to Palm Grove on September 22 ... Read More

If you're planning to drive from Sydney to Canberra for the Floriade festival this month, or simply wish to have some time in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, ... Read More

Victoria's largest public event, the Royal Melbourne Show, opens a week from now at the Melbourne Showgrounds in Ascot Vale. Traditionally the Royal Melbourne Show highlights agricultural and rural excellence as ... Read More

This year's Kauri Festival in New Zealand's Northland started last week and continues until the end of the month. The Kauri Festival comprises a variety of events and activities — kauri ... Read More

Yes, it's that time of the year again when Canberra spreads a carpet of flowers to welcome you to Australia's national capital. This year, Canberra's festival of the flowers, Floriade, is ... Read More

The 2007 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Sydney has finished, the steel security fences are coming down, and no-go areas are being opened to the public once again. Yes, you can ... Read More

Fans of Australia's rugby team, the Wallabies, and New Zealand's All Blacks are following the progress of their matches in the 2007 Rugby World Cup now being played in France. In ... Read More

Sydney's World Heritage site, the Sydney Opera House, is where the heads of government attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit are holding their meeting today. The Opera House is closed to ... Read More

Yes, but Racegoers Will Be Where the Horses Aren't With the outbreak of equine influenza in New South Wales and Queensland, restrictions on the movement of horses in these states were ... Read More

If you're in Sydney at the weekend — and find moving around in the city restrictive with the current APEC summit meeting hampering mobility and access to a number of ... Read More

United States President George W Bush has arrived in Sydney to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting at which 21 nations are represented by their heads of government. President ... Read More

On this day last year, the man known to millions as the Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, died after being stung by a stingray off the north Queensland coast. His death was ... Read More

Stingrays glide smoothly and seemingly effortlessly in the water and are quite fascinating to watch. They have the erroneous reputation of not being dangerous as they look friendly and docile. But ... Read More

No, It's Not the Opera House Just north of Melbourne city centre along the route of the free City Circle tram, discover Australia's first World Heritage building, the Royal Exhibition Building, ... Read More

It's the first of September and the start of spring Down Under. The weather's warmer, the flowers are in bloom, and love is in the air, so goes the song. It's ... Read More