Australia's wild dog, the dingo is on the prowl. Today it hunts alone. A sign the dingo was probably on the lookout for small game. But it senses a larger opportunity, a baby kangaroo called Joey makes an excellent target. Its too big for his mother...
By Phil Mercer Sydney 09 April 2008 Australia will offer a permanent home to hundreds of its Iraqi employees when Canberra pulls its combat forces out of the troubled country later this year. There are fears these employees could face retribution aft...
By Phil Mercer Sydney 02 April 2008 Australia's first large underground carbon storage facility has opened in the southern state of Victoria. The geo-sequestration plant will capture carbon dioxide from a power station and store it two kilometers ben...
By Phil Mercer Sydney 31 March 2008 Australia has made a bid to secure a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. The effort is part of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's push to make Australia a bigger player on the world stage. Mr. Rudd...
By Phil Mercer Sydney 29 March 2008 Australians switched off their lights for 60 minutes Saturday to mark Earth Hour, a campaign by environmentalists to raise awareness about global warming. The event was started a year ago in Sydney by the World Wil...
By Phil Mercer Sydney 11 March 2008 Australia has ratified its acceptance of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. The new government elected last year made signing the emissions-limiting accord its first act. From Sydney, Phil Mercer reports. The Ky...
By Phil Mercer Sydney 07 March 2008 Demonstrators in Papua New Guinea tried to disrupt a visit by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Landowners staged protests as part of a dispute over proposed mining of the Kokoda Track, a trail where Australian...
By Phil Mercer Sydney 25 February 2008 A simulated refugee camp has been set up in Melbourne to show Australians the sort of hardship suffered by millions of people around the world. Refugee Realities is the work of the charity Oxfam. The camp is set...
By Barry Kalb Hong Kong 23 February 2008 The United States and Australia have reaffirmed their alliance in the first high-level meeting between the two countries since the installation of the new Kevin Rudd government in December. U.S. Defense Secret...
By Phil Mercer Darwin, Australia 13 February 2008 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has made a historic apology to the country's Aboriginal people for past mistreatment. Mr. Rudd said past policies of assimilation under which indigenous children w...
