Kathy Lette on a brush with the Great White in South Australia
Source: Mail Online UK
Port Lincoln :: Australia | updated 2013-05-18 12:28:43 -0700 | travel-news
18 May 2013 The massive sign that greets disembarking passengers at Adelaide Airport asks: 'What is Australia's deadliest marine creature?' It's illustrated with a terrifying array of teeth-gnashing sharks, sinister- looking stingrays and iridescent, tentacle-trailing, anaphylactic shock-inducing...
Gregg Wallace and John Torode on the best places to eat at Heathrow airport
Source: Mail Online UK
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-18 12:28:40 -0700 | travel-news
About 10 years ago at the airport, there was a Hungry Jack's which is what we'd call Burger King, and that was it! There was nothing else in Bangkok Airport. Now you can find a place, for example, that has...
Singer George Michael gets medical treatment after car crash
Source: DAWN
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-18 04:34:38 -0700 | travel-news
British singer George Michael has received medical treatment after a car crash on Thursday, his publicist said. The 49-year-old former Wham! front man was being treated for minor cuts and bruises after the accident, Michael's spokeswoman said. George Michael was...
Australia and NZ police crackdown on heavy vehicles
Source: Scoop
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-16 19:05:30 -0700 | travel-news
17 May 2013 Australia and New Zealand Police participate in crackdown on heavy vehicles Police are warning that they will be cracking down on heavy vehicle companies and drivers who operate unsafely...Jon White says that unsafe operation of heavy vehicles...
Truck in bridge drama
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-16 22:51:02 -0700 | travel-news
VicRoads says drivers travelling through the area should seek an alternative route and that traffic in the area is very heavy. Emergency services are at the scene and are working to reopen the freeway before evening peak. A witness told...
Digger claims cover up over Afghan body
Source: Adelaide Now
Adelaide :: Australia | updated 2013-05-16 06:49:35 -0700 | travel-news
The allegations come after Defence Minister Stephen Smith told Parliament that an inquiry had found no maltreatment by the Australians and that the body had not been under Australian control. This is despite the sergeant, who asked not to be...
ASIO's counter-terrorism powers may be scaled back
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-14 16:11:19 -0700 | travel-news
56 Powers given to Australia's intelligence agency to combat terrorism, including the power to detain suspects without charge, could be phased back...Under the changes, agents would no longer be able to hold a terror suspect for up to a week...
Progress sought on drunken driving deaths
Source: Associated Press
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-14 19:18:59 -0700 | travel-news
New approaches are needed to combat drunken driving, which claims the lives of more than a third of the people killed annually on U.S highways and has remained stubbornly high for the past decade and a half, a new report...
Man dies after a car crash near Armidale
Source: The Courier-Mail
Armidale :: Australia | updated 2013-05-14 06:26:03 -0700 | travel-news
AN elderly man has died after his car went off the road near Armidale in northern NSW. A passerby spotted a badly damaged vehicle on the Guyra Road, at Guyra, north of Armidale about 3.40pm on Tuesday. An 80-year-old man,...
Airport white powder not hazardous: AFP
Source: The Courier-Mail
Brisbane :: Australia | updated 2013-05-14 05:22:38 -0700 | travel-news
The Australian Federal Police says forensic testing has been completed on the substance, which was discovered on Monday evening. "The substance tested as a benign white powder," an AFP spokesperson said. The discovery sparked a dramatic response involving police, fire,...
Our Diggers could be seen as terrorists
Source: The Australian
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-14 04:38:00 -0700 | travel-news
S armed forces needs to be protected from any risk of being charged with terrorism, an expert committee has recommended. The committee's review of Australia's counter-terrorism legislation says the present definition of a terrorist act theoretically encompassed Australian forces in...
Two planes fly into power lines in Qld
Source: The Courier-Mail
Brisbane :: Australia | updated 2013-05-14 00:22:06 -0700 | travel-news
TWO crop duster planes have flown into power lines in separate incidents in Queensland...Another crop duster clipped a powerline as it flew under it, cutting power to about 100 customers in the Burdekin. There were no injuries and both incidents...
Bikie boss denies running bushfire roadblock
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-13 20:38:22 -0700 | travel-news
Shaun Lee Kelly has appeared in the Magistrates Court in Hobart charged with failing to comply with a direction given by a police officer. He has pleaded not guilty to the charge and will appear again in July. Police allege...
Jailed for helping drunk driver flee fatal crash
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-14 01:02:52 -0700 | travel-news
Sean James Smith gave a lift to his friend Ross Murray who had hit and killed cyclist Tim Anderson in Cottesloe last year. Mr Anderson was training for a charity bike ride in March when he was hit by Murray's...
Guns, drugs seized in Sydney police raids
Source: The Courier-Mail
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-13 18:20:52 -0700 | travel-news
A MAN will face court next month after drugs, firearms and 5000 rounds of ammunition were discovered in police raids on two Sydney properties. Officers from the Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad searched the neighbouring properties at Roselands on May...
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