Sydney - More than 1 million television viewers watched the All Saints glamour couple get married.
A day later, actor Mark Priestley, bridegroom in that episode of the hospital drama series, leapt to his death from a Sydney hotel balcony. He was 32 and seemed to have everything to live for.
There are around five suicides every day in Australia. It's more than the national road toll.
"It's a national tragedy and we've got to do something about it," said Alan Staines, director of the Salvation Army's Suicide Prevention and Bereavement Support Programme.
Sydney - Retired couple Lyn Gardiner and Rob Gay are selling their Melbourne home, buying a camper van and joining the tens of thousands of older Australians perpetually on tour in the wide brown land.
It's a lifestyle change that warms the heart of sociologist Bruce Bradbury of the University of New South Wales in Sydney. His research shows that lots of pensioners have little money in the bank but are living in houses worth a fortune.
Bradbury is urging more to sell up, take out a reverse mortgage or opt for any other way they can find of turning bricks and mortar into dollars and cents.
Melbourne, Oct 8 : In a remarkable discovery, scientists have for the first time unravelled bacteria''s stress buster— a "co-ordination centre” that directs a bacteria''s defence systems to fight off external threats and stresses.
The team of British and Australian researchers has shown how the centre alerts the bacteria to danger and prompts it to create proteins to negate the threat, reports ABC Online.
Sydney- Australian tourism officials are hoping that a new advertising campaign linked to the feature film Australia, starring local actors Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, will bring visitors flocking to the continent.
Tourism Australia managing director Geoff Buckley said Wednesday he hoped the television commercials, one featuring New York and the other Shanghai, would tug at the heartstrings of the international traveller.
Sydney - An Australian tourist lost in the Outback scrawled HELP in the dirt next to his dying body, police in the far-west town of Broome said Wednesday.
Sydney - More than 1 million television viewers watched the All Saints glamour couple get married.
Sydney - Retired couple Lyn Gardiner and Rob Gay are selling their Melbourne home, buying a camper van and joining the tens of thousands of older Australians perpetually on tour in the wide brown land.
Sydney - Australian stocks tumbled 1.5
Melbourne, Oct 8 : In a remarkable discovery, scientists have for the first time unravelled bacteria''s stress buster— a "co-ordination centre” that directs a bacteria''s defence systems to fight off external threats and stresses.
Sydney- Australian tourism officials are hoping that a new advertising campaign linked to the feature film Australia, starring local actors Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, will bring visitors flocking to the continent.
