SEX sells, and the newly formed Australian Sex Party knows it.

That's why, even with what seem to be sensible policies rooted in a desire to make sexuality and discussions about it less touchy subjects, the party has chosen a name that stands out from the traditional ballot paper line-up. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Pagans and druids, mark your calendars and book your airplane tickets. An Australian entrepreneur hopes to open a Stonehenge replica by the Dec. 21 solstice, just in time for New Age revelers. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

An Australian doctor says he has created the world's healthiest wine, which cleans your blood vessels and reduces the risk of heart attack as you drink it. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

Australian researchers have found a unique way to control the enzyme which causes damage during a heart attack and, less critically, is also responsible for turning snot green. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

An Australian state government minister was forced to quit following reports that he danced in his underwear at a parliamentary office party, the state premier said Thursday. picked by MeMe 1 year ago

An Australian man was conscious and spoke to his medical team during life-saving brain surgery in what doctors are claiming as a world-first procedure with cutting-edge technology. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

THE Royal Australian Mint is believed to be poised to scrap the five-cent piece as part of an overhaul of Australian coins that will also give the Queen a makeover.
The move — which many retailers support — could upset some consumers, with all transactions needing to be rounded to the nearest 10 cents picked by bingo 6 months ago

Australian farmers should rear kangaroos rather than sheep because they do less damage to the country's environment, according to a prominent ecologist. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Australian researchers using NASA technology to map the medieval city of Angkor have discovered at least 74 new temples. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A man hanged in 1922 for the murder and rape of a young girl in the southern Australian city of Melbourne was posthumously pardoned for the crime on Tuesday after new tests found crucial evidence against him was flawed. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

An Australian man was convicted on Saturday of killing his wife and then hiding her body in a metal drum in his garage for 23 years. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

An Australian student worried about her parents' money problems rifled through a pile of her lottery tickets Thursday and discovered that she had won 13 million Australian dollars ($10 million) 10 months ago. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian man dressed only in his underpants fell from his ninth-storey apartment when an apparent incident of high jinks went badly wrong, police said Tuesday. picked by wags273 2 years ago

Australian bird species are getting smaller due to global warming, suggest researchers.

"Our results demonstrate a generalised response by eight avian species to some major environmental change over the last 100 years or so, probably global warming." picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

A five-year-old boy was sexually assaulted in the toilets at the Australian Open tennis, but it took authorities four days to warn the public. picked by teaya21 3 years ago

Jesus Christ may have turned water into wine, but for a group of Australian churchgoers the ideal place to worship on a Sunday is a pub. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

It was a stick up of a different kind for one Australian burglar, who broke into a neighbour's house and played sex games in the bathroom with a bottle of toilet detergent and a vacuum cleaner. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Groups of young girls have been photographed in bikinis with their mobile numbers written on their backs using blue-coloured zinc sunblock. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Australian scientists have found a way to boost crop yields in a move they say could help feed and clothe millions of people in a time of climate crisis.
Researchers at the University of Newcastle have found that by knocking out a gene from the genetic code of a tomato plant, it grows sweeter fruit and longer-lasting leaves. picked by Bingo 4 months ago

Crayfish body fossils and burrows discovered in Victoria, Australia, have provided the first physical evidence that crayfish existed on the continent as far back as the Mesozoic Era, says Emory University paleontologist Anthony Martin, who headed up a study on the finds. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago