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Thousands of mourners turned out for the memorial service of former leader Gough Whitlam Wednesday.

• 05 ноября 2014, 15:27

Oscar-nominated Australian actor Hugh Jackman has been treated for skin cancer for a third time in a year.

• 29 октября 2014, 14:04

A new Australian study has added scholarly credibility to the adage, finding that US musicians die up to 25 years earlier than the general population.

• 28 октября 2014, 15:56

Australian government plans to protect the Great Barrier Reef are inadequate, short-sighted and will not prevent its decline.

• 28 октября 2014, 13:47

Australian surgeons said they have used hearts which had stopped beating in successful transplants, in a world first they said could change the way organs are donated.

• 24 октября 2014, 15:01

Every year in spring, Australians are seen wearing bicycle helmets with spikes on top or caps that have images of eyes on their back.

• 24 октября 2014, 14:52

Former Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam died Tuesday aged 98.

• 21 октября 2014, 15:34

Australia said it was hopeful of winning support for its plan to create a vast marine reserve off east Antarctica, after revising the proposal to make it smaller.

• 20 октября 2014, 14:55

Australian Foreign Minister delivered a diplomatic version of the "shirt front" promised by Prime Minister as Russia came under fire over the fate of flight MH17.

• 18 октября 2014, 13:16

Novelist Richard Flanagan said he was ashamed to be Australian after winning the Man Booker Prize for his book "The Narrow Road to the Deep North".

• 15 октября 2014, 16:47

Prime Minister vowed to "shirtfront", or confront, Russian President at the G20 summit next month over the loss of Australian lives in the MH17 crash.

• 13 октября 2014, 14:50

A woman missing for more than two weeks in a rugged Australian rainforest has stumbled out alive after surviving a chase by a crocodile and eating small fish.

• 09 октября 2014, 14:32

Australian Prime Minister hailed international police cooperation during a threat briefing at the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York.

• 27 сентября 2014, 12:57

Australian singer and writer Nick Cave has sought to probe the nature of both God and sexual desire through his frank, intense songs.

• 23 сентября 2014, 10:35

Kazakhstani internet connection is second by speed among post soviet countries.

• 22 сентября 2014, 17:22

A tipsy goose hunter he lived to tell the tale of being attacked by a two-metre-long crocodile after poking the beast in the eye.

• 20 сентября 2014, 14:28

Finance chiefs from G20 nations held talks confident they can "change the destiny of the global economy" despite rising world political tensions.

• 20 сентября 2014, 13:37

Vladimir Putin is set to attend the G20 leaders' summit in November despite alarm over Russia's actions in Ukraine with host Australia.

• 20 сентября 2014, 12:08

Three-quarters of the trash found off Australian beaches is plastic, as it warned that the rubbish is entangling and being swallowed by wildlife.

• 15 сентября 2014, 13:43

Australian actress Nicole Kidman is in shock after the sudden death of her father in Singapore.

• 13 сентября 2014, 13:43