Topic: Australia
Australian green activists expressed outrage at a government decision to allow energy giant Shell to drill for gas at a pristine reef that was listed as a World Heritage site just two weeks ago.Ningaloo Reef is considered a natural wonder, sprawling some ...
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - An elderly koala stolen from an Australian wildlife park by bolt-cutter wielding thieves was returned home unscathed, with an anonymous phone tip-off leading keepers to a rubbish bin in the zoo's parking lot."Banjo" the koala went missing earlier ...
The Natural History Museum in London has agreed to return 138 sets of skeletal remains of indigenous people to Australia, in what it hailed as a new approach to the delicate subject of repatriation.The museum will return the remains to the Torres ...
The Natural History Museum in London said on Thursday that it has agreed to return 138 sets of skeletal remains of indigenous people to Australia, in what it hailed as a new approach to the delicate subject of repatriation.The museum will return ...
LONDON (Reuters Life!) -- The remains of 138 indigenous people from the Torres Strait Islands are set to be repatriated after they were removed at the behest of a missionary during the 19th century, London's Natural History Museum said on Thursday.The museum ...
The foolhardy go swimming in the turbulent water and sometimes have to be rescued when the river rises. Sacred to the Eastern Kuku Yalanji people, it is a living record of the evolution of Australia's plants and animals over the last 400 ...
For example, institutions funded by the national government-national museums-may hold outstanding international collections, as do the British Museum, the Hermitage, and the Louvre; may hold specialized collections, as do a number of the national museums of antiquities on the European continent; or ...
For starters, the light is very different. Summer in Australia is like turning up the temperature dial on a fan-forced oven. Australia is a vast place, mind bogglingly huge which for the most part is empty; devoid not just of people, but ...
Australian National Maritime Museum is one of the prime attractions of Sydney's Darling Harbour, taking up extensive area on the northern (Pyrmont) side of the development. The Museum incorporates the main building, which houses numerous galleries of varied interest, holding both permanent ...
A seven hour drive from Sydney along the Pacific Highway will take you to Coffs Harbour, nicknamed the ? You will know that you are in Coffs Harbour when you see the huge banana made from cement announcing the entrance to the ...
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The Shins - Australia (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
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New Australia trailer
Final trailer for Australia, Baz Luhrmann film starring Nicole Kidman ...2008-11-01
