South Australia's Kangaroo Island has been named by the National Geographic Traveler magazine as the best island in the Asia Pacific region for its commitment to sustainable development and preserving ... Read More

With a week to go to the running of this year's Melbourne Cup, Melbourne's Melbourne Cup Carnival was launched yesterday at Federation Square, highlighting the carnival's four major race days. First ... Read More

Daylight saving time is now in effect in Australia in the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia, and in New Zealand. Australia's Northern Territory ... Read More

Six-year-old gelding El Segundo romped home to win the 2007 Cox Plate, followed closely by Wonderful World, second, and Haradasun, third. The event had looked very much an open race, although ... Read More

If you walk west from Sydney city centre and cross into Darling Harbour, you'll find the Australian National Maritime Museum at the foot of the western end of Pyrmont Bridge. Here ... Read More

A New Zealand man was fishing off Mercury Island in New Zealand's Hauraki Gulf when he was speared in the thigh by a stingray barb that severed an artery and ... Read More

Actually it's the frilled-neck lizard and you'll find this particular specimen at Sydney Wildlife World at Darling Harbour adjacent to Sydney Aquarium. Although it might look a bit fierce, the frilled-neck ... Read More

You'll find Stewart Island off the southern tip of New Zealand's South Island: a land of forests, bush, coves, beaches, wildlife, and home of the kiwi. This is a place for ... Read More

The Melbourne International Arts Festival closes on Saturday, October 27, with a free Closing Night Party at the Arts House, The Meat Market, North Melbourne. The party kicks off at 9.30 ... Read More

Next Stop: New Zealand The 2007 Rugby World Cup has finished with the final played today, October 20, local time, at Saint Denis in France. The 2007 champion is South Africa, having ... Read More

The 2007 Caulfield Cup race (October 20, 2007) was in turmoil after top favorites Maldivian and Eskimo Queen were scratched after an incident at the barrier just before the horses ... Read More

After qualifying events today at Darwin's Hidden Valley raceway, the World Solar Challenge — a 3000-kilometre race of speed and endurance by solar-powered vehicles from Darwin in the Northern ... Read More

One of the top events in Melbourne's Spring Racing Carnival, the Caulfield Cup, a 2400-metre Group 1 handicap race for horses three years old or more, is run on Caulfield ... Read More

Yes, it is. But if you think that's Uluru, no, that's not Uluru. The world's — and, of course, Australia's — largest rock is not Uluru but Mt Augustus in ... Read More

On a visit to Australia, Mark Twain likened the Murray River to his country's Mississippi. Australia's ol' man river is not as long as that American river, but in the ... Read More

The countdown to the running of the 2007 Melbourne Cup is well and truly on as thoroughbreds are readied for Australia's richest and most famous horse race. Twenty-four qualifiers will line ... Read More

There's much of history in the Victorian goldfields and much to visit in Ballarat, Victoria's largest inland city. Certainly you can take a daytrip from Melbourne and return by nightfall, ... Read More

The Australian Federal election has been called. Prime Minister John Howard has visited Government House, the official Canberra residence of the Australian Governor-General, to ask the Queen's representative in Australia ... Read More

The works of 30 Indigenous artists from across Australia go on display today at the National Gallery of Australia to mark the 25th year of its existence. Located by Lake Burley ... Read More

On the east coast of New Zealand's South Island between Picton and Christchurch, find your choice spot for your "Moby Dick experience." Kaikoura is probably your best spot in New Zealand ... Read More

Traditionally, fringe festivals produce new, often experimental, cutting-edge theatre away from the traditional mainly mainstream sources. One of the best known in the world is the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and ... Read More

We call them the Bungle Bungles, not that there's any bungling involved. At least, not that I know of. They say the name is a corruption of another phrase altogether: ... Read More

A free evening concert in the heart of Melbourne kicks off the Melbourne International Arts Festival which takes place this month from October 11 to 27. Dan Zanes and Friends perform ... Read More

You could go in circles in Australia’s capital city — but that’s just how the city is planned. From a prize-winning design by American architect Walter Burley Griffin, Canberra was ... Read More

Australia and New Zealand have been eliminated in the quarter-finals of the 2007 Rugby World Cup in matches played on October 6, local time, in France and Wales. Australia met its ... Read More

With the ban on horse racing in New South Wales and Queensland as a result of the equine influenza outbreak, Sydney is turning to camels. Harold Park Paceway, home of Sydney ... Read More

A major part of the fun of visiting Australia's vineyards and wineries is the discovery of fine new wines as you go on wine tasting tours. And discovering "new" wines doesn't ... Read More

Victoria's Spring Racing Carnival, which reaches its peak in the running of the Melbourne Cup on November 6, has been launched in Melbourne. While New South Wales and Queensland remain under ... Read More

No doubt about it. Doubtful Sound, also known as the Sound of Silence, is one of New Zealand's top nature attractions. It is the deepest (421 metres) and the second ... Read More

The humpback whales which have spent the winter in the waters off northern Australia are starting their homeward journey as the whale migration season nears its end. The whale season coincides ... Read More

At least it is — in the Australian Capital Territory, and in the states of New South Wales and South Australia. In Western Australia, today is a public holiday as ... Read More