Australia’s resource-rich economy expanded at twice the pace expected by economists in the first quarter of 2012, lifted by an unexpected increase in household spending and continued heavy investment ...

Net worth of US$18 billion makes her Asia Pacific's richest woman Singapore, 2 February 2012 – Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart is now the richest woman inthe Asia Pacific region with a net ...

For anything positive to come out of falling to Rafael Nadal in the seminfals of the 2012 Australian Open, Roger Federer must first understand it's time for a change. Nadal defeated Federer 6-7 (5), 6 ...

Thank the Olympic Gods for Tom Slingsby. Before this week, few Australians would have known of him. But this week, he has catapulted himself to national sainthood, winning Australia’s second gold ...

It is that time of the year when snow blows while ice drips off your nose in the Midwest. Meanwhile, tennis moves “down under” to the sunny warmth of the Australian Open in Melbourne. 2011 saw the top ...

Australia’s six expensive, unreliable Collins Class submarines should be a warning of the risks involved in designing and building a submarine in Australia. These risks are amplified by the challenges ...

When Pete Sampras completed his “death march” to the world No. 1 ranking for a record sixth consecutive year in 1998, he was so burned out that he didn’t even enter the Australian Open. Novak Djokovic ...

Australia has long prided itself on “punching above its weight” in global sporting contests such as the Olympics. Now, the resource-rich nation of 22.6 million people and the world’s 12 th biggest ...

For some time now, Australia’s economy has been underperforming its peers. Since the end of 2012, Australia’s real GDP has grown at an annual rate of 2.3 per cent, 0.1 percentage points less than that ...

Tony Press receives funding from the Australian Government's Cooperative Research Centres Program. He was Director of the Australian Antarctic Division from 1998 to 2008; was Australia's Alternate ...

Infiniti today announced that it will enter the Australian market starting from the the third quarter of next year. The company will make its Down Under debut with a retail and service network ...

In 2012, Australia’s Asian Century White Paper outlined fundamental policy and attitudinal changes that would be required if Australia was to make the most of the opportunities presented by the Asian ...