News Stories Tagged australia
Australia's richest person Rinehart shakes up media
A shock move by Australia's richest person Gina Rinehart into quality newspaper group Fairfax is likely designed to build her influence and reflects the rise of the nation's mineral wealth, analysts say. Davis Cup: Hewitt to open for Australia vs China
Australia veteran Lleyton Hewitt will take on China's top-ranked player Zhang Ze in the opening singles match of the Asia-Oceania Davis Cup playoff on Friday. The draw held Thursday also has Australia's Bernard Tomic playing China's Wu Di in the other opening singles match on grass at the Geelong Lawn Tennis Club outside Melbourne. Australia Says It Has Right To Restrict Tobacco Packaging
Australia's government claims in court filings that it has the legal right to enforce plain packaging on the tobacco industry, setting up what's likely to be prolonged legal battle with the world's largest cigarette makers. Australia's Telstra first half profits up 22.9%
Australia's dominant telecom company Telstra Thursday reported a lower-than-expected 22.9 percent jump in first half profits against what it described as a difficult macroeconomic backdrop. Bracken sues Cricket Australia over injury
Former Test seamer Nathan Bracken is suing Cricket Australia, alleging negligence for failing to adequately deal with a knee injury that "ruined" his career, reports said on Thursday. Australia pledges to Queen Elizabeth's trust for jubilee
Australia said Tuesday there was "nothing valedictory" in its diamond jubilee celebrations for Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, its head of state, as it pledged Aus$5 million to her legacy trust. Australia keeps interest rates steady at 4.25%
Australia's central bank left official interest rates steady at 4.25 percent, saying global conditions had, on balance, improved and local growth and inflation were close to target. Resurgent Australia wishing for earlier Ashes
The next Ashes series cannot come quick enough for Australia coach Mickey Arthur after his side whitewashed India and England were beaten 3-0 by Pakistan. Australia floods fail to dampen big cotton crop
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's projections for a bumper cotton crop remain on track despite a week-long deluge in major growing regions that forced thousands of residents from their homes and left rivers dangerously swollen. Australia is the world's third-largest cotton and sugar exporter, fourth-largest wheat exporter and a big supplier of other agricultural and mineral commodities. Heavy rains ... Australia 'integral' in secret jail
Australia was an 'integral' element of the the potentially illegal detention of prisoners of war at a secret Iraqi desert prison in 2003, according to a US military document.
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