A recent research has shown a higher-than-expected rate of a severe allergic reaction to HPV vaccine, Gardasil, in young women in Australia. This rare and severe allergic reaction is known as Anaphylaxis. This allergic reaction leads to hives or an itchy rash, a quickening heart beat and wheezing or breathing difficulties.

Melbourne, Sept 2 : In a rather bizarre punishment, a teacher forced a six-year-old student to write an apology letter using the F-word.

Maguire Pinner''s parents have lodged a complaint against the teacher of The White Hills Primary School, whose move is being backed by her union.

According to reports, the Victorian branch of the Australian Education Union accused the boy''s parents of overreacting.

The teacher had put Pinner in time out and ordered him to write a letter home to his parents explaining how and why he swore in the playground.

She asked him to explicitly write the profanity "f*** you", which she later repeated in her comments to the parents.

Sydney  - An Indonesian man was jailed Tuesday for his part in bringing 300 illegal immig

Sydney - Just touching a didgeridoo could make a woman infertile, an Aboriginal academic said Tuesday when calling for a ban on a book encouraging girls to take up the wind instrument.

Mark Rose, general manager of the Victorian Aboriginal Education Association, said the Daring Book for Girls was blasphemous and should be pulped because in Aboriginal culture only men were allowed to play the didgeridoo, a hollowed-out branch about a metre long.

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Sydney - A boomerang that international auction house Christie's says was a souvenir taken by Britain's Captain James Cook on his voyage to Australia in 1770 is almost certainly a fake, an expert said Tuesday.

Aborigines in Sydney have urged the Australian government to bid for the boomerang when it goes to auction in London later this month.

There have even been calls for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to talk British Prime Minister Gordon Brown into buying the wooden hunting tool and presenting it to Australia as an act of atonement for colonization.