Australia is experiencing a new wave of organised people trafficking with a new report that shows the $16 billion overseas student market in Australia is being increasingly targeted by criminal gangs. The Australian Immigration Department has revealed that the statistics in relation towards fraudulent student visas was dominated to the tune ...Read More...

Tragedy struck a teenage couple out on a quiet and innocent camping trip. Two young people both died after being accidentally run over by a vehicle while they out during a school reunion and were sleeping in their swags, police said. New South Wales Police said the incident happened in a camp ...Read More...

A company based in New Zealand and specializing in tours is run through a patch of controversy as it not only broke immigration rules but also has been accused of enlisting visiting foreigners to impersonate Maori on large ships. Based in the North Island city of Tauranga, the tour operator called ...Read More...

Radiohead's Ed O'Brien is skeptical about claims that digital piracy is killing the music business. Expressing his thoughts on a subject which has made a lot of ink run during the past year particularly in the United Kingdom, the guitarist of one of the world’s top contemporary bands explained that despite ...Read More...

British iconic supergroup Massive Attack are set for their March dates in Australia off the back of their new album `Heligoland`. Massive Attack, famous for their techno-ish electro-pop rhythms, are returning to Australia with a series of gigs which will kick off with a date in Perth at the city’s Kings ...Read More...

There have always been amusing lists of stupid questions asked by stupid people, particularly when it comes to travel. A new survey from staff at the call centre for the Australian travel agency Sunlover Holidays has revealed that Aussies have their fair share of idiotic instances when it comes to ...Read More...

Prince William has given a speech in Melbourne to mark the end of his tour of Australia. During his speech, Prince William made a light-hearted comment about the infamous 1979 kiss which his father, Prince Charles, received from a model on a beach in Perth, although he made the mistake of ...Read More...

A United Nation’s climate scientific team has revealed that a claim made in a 2007 publication -- which at the time revealed that Himalayan glaciers were facing the risk of completely disappearing by the year 2035 -- was not based on the proper data. The UN’s climate scientific body new stance ...Read More...

The body of a UK man who was attempting to pilot a microlight aircraft to Australia was recovered off the French coast about three hours after he took off from the British coast. Forty-nine-year-old Martin Bromage hailing from the English town of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, took off on during the early ...Read More...

Tragedy in the Blue Mountains region of NSW, where one man has died after being trapped by a rock fall. The man, one of a group of six canyon climbers, was pronounced dead at the scene where he was found in the rugged terrain after an extensive search by authorities. The ...Read More...