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Jury finds banjo killer guilty of manslaughter

A tourist who killed a man with a banjo after he received unwanted sexual advances has been found guilty of manslaughter in New Zealand.

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Australian town bans bottled water

Thursday, 9 July 2009

An Australian town has banned bottled water, claiming to be the first in the country to revert to the tap for the sake of the environment and prompting the nation's largest state government to stop buying bottled water.

Tourists use a chain to climb the world's largest monolith Uluru (Ayers Rock), about 220 miles from the central Australian town of Alice Springs. Many tourists climb the rock, although the Aboriginal owners request that visitors respect their sacred site and view it only from the ground.

Climbers may be barred from Uluru

Wednesday, 8 July 2009

An Australian government proposal to stop people from climbing the famed Uluru, in deference to the wishes of indigenous people, sparked debate today with lawmakers opposing the plan.

Australia's Miss Havisham: the jilted lover who spent her dying days in a cave

Wednesday, 8 July 2009

An Australian woman who disappeared 40 years ago and whose remains were found in a remote cave 12 years later has been identified this week as a tragic Miss Havisham figure who had been jilted by her lover.

A passenger's photograph shows the damage done when a propeller came off the Great Barrier Airlines aircraft's engine in mid-flight.

Terror for passengers as propellor falls from plane

Wednesday, 8 July 2009

Passengers on a Great Barrier Airlines flight watched in horror as a propeller came off in mid-air, smashing a window on their aircraft and ripping a door off.

Abdul, a baby wombat, is cradled by his keeper at Sydney's Taronga Zoo - there are only 138 of the animals living in one colony in a forest in central Queensland

The wombat: back from the brink

Sunday, 5 July 2009

One of the world's most threatened mammals manages to go forth into the forest – and multiply

Britons 'among victims of credit card scam'

Thursday, 2 July 2009

Australian authorities have uncovered a six million Australian dollar (4.8 million US dollar) international credit card scam that used stolen personal information from people as far away as Britain and Spain, officials said.

Actor left to ask: 'Where's the money, Skip?' after court case

Thursday, 2 July 2009

An actor who starred in the iconic 1960s Australian television show Skippy has lost a legal battle for a share of the millions of dollars it has generated in the past 40 years.

Wallabies snacking in Tasmania's opium poppy fields are getting

'Stoned' wallabies make crop circles

Friday, 26 June 2009

Wallabies snacking in legally grown opium poppy fields are getting "high as a kite" and hopping around in circles, trampling the crops, officials in Tasmania say.

No poppies here: a red-necked Wallaby suns itself as its joey pokes its head out of her pouch at Sydney's Taronga Zoo

Crop circles, poppies - and tripping wallabies

Thursday, 25 June 2009

Wallabies snacking in opium poppy fields are getting "high as a kite" and hopping around creating crop circles.

Police say Kevin Rudd email was forged

Monday, 22 June 2009

The Australian media are calling it “Utegate”, and the smoking gun was supposed to be an email seeking preferential treatment for a car dealer friend of the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd.

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