Two Irish backpackers have been killed in a road crash in Australia.

Outraged child welfare campaigners in Australia have protested after nine people who raped a 10-year-old girl escaped jail because a judge said their victim “consented” to sex.

Nine people who pleaded guilty to raping a 10-year-old girl have avoided prison sentences – causing outrage in Australia today.

Australia’s Karrie Webb won her sixth ANZ Ladies Masters and her second title in as many weeks with a final-round 68 at Royal Pines Resort on the Australian Gold Coast.

A MASSIVE clean-up operation was underway yesterday after super cyclone Larry ripped through northern Queensland leaving behind a devastated landscape.

An Australian politician whose father was held in a German labour camp during the Second World War says he plans to renounce his allegiance to the Queen after seeing a photo of Prince Harry wearing a Nazi swastika.

A British teenager who was lost for three days in an Australian rainforest today told how she survived her ordeal by eating chewing gum.

Celebrity Survivor stars today made life hard for themselves on the first day of their wilderness adventure by polishing off almost their entire allowance of food in just two hours.

Eight famous faces were braving the perils of the jungle today in the new celebrity version of Survivor.

A British tourist has apparently become the first person in the world to die from the sting of the peanut-sized Irukandji jellyfish.

A tourist was in a critical condition today after he was stung by a potentially deadly peanut-sized jellyfish off Australia’s northeast coast.

Around 2000 Australian firefighters have had to put Christmas on hold today as they continue to battle 70 bush fires burning across the country’s most populated state.

Four Australians are feared dead after a plane flying to the Barrier Reef crashed in rugged terrain.