China has insisted that a suspected artillery shell discovered in a shipping container in Papua New Guinea is merely a “shell-shaped wine bottle”, despite a police report identifying it as ... Read More

Flavour-wise, Tim Triggs says his gin and tonic is “super lemony” and a little bit “sherbetty”. It is not, he stresses, “buggy or insecty”. It is a bit buggy, though ... Read More

Australia is considering renegotiating its post-Brexit trade agreement with the UK to force young British backpackers to work in rural areas rather than spend their entire stay in Sydney and ... Read More

In Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera, it is the temperamental prima donna Carlotta who flounces off the stage in a fit of pique after nearly being hit by ... Read More

There was a time when Dr John Goldsmith would have had little trouble photographing the stars over Pyramid Hill, a rocky outcrop that sticks out from a vast salt basin ... Read More

Even if it’s hard to say exactly why Australia’s craze for giant objects began, it is possible to say where. When it landed in Coffs Harbour in 1964, Alan Chapman’s ... Read More

Tourists will have to book in advance and pay to visit the Twelve Apostles, one of Australia’s most famous natural landmarks, as authorities try to tackle overcrowding. More than two ... Read More

A serial killer convicted of murdering seven backpackers including two young British women, has been linked to the unsolved murder or disappearances of 31 more people in Australia, an official ... Read More

You could call her Ishmael. In a remote corner of the South Pacific, Jemma Cooper was one of four sailors on board the Tai Tam, a 52ft yacht, when she ... Read More

Jessica Whitton was 19 when she decided that she’d finally had enough of her huge breasts. She became one of thousands of women in Australia booking in for a “reverse ... Read More

When Buzz Aldrin visited Sydney in 2010, I interviewed him for Sky News Business ... Read More

China is an increasingly vital market to businesses and consumers across Australia. It became our largest trading partner in 2009 with two-way trade valued at over $150 billion in 2015 ... Read More