Australia Travel News 10/10/2010

Tourism Malaysia has targeted Australia as a key source market for its unique homestay programme, set to feed the Australian traveller’s appetite for authentic cultural and sustainable experiences.

Australia has an amazing travel-based tech startup scene. It could be the fact that we’re so far away from everything (including other cities within Australia!) that travel is something we’re inherently familiar with.

The month of October transforms the capital of New South Wales into a prominent hub of the culinary arts. Sydney’s status as one of the world’s best destinations for die-hard foodies is well-established but often, it takes one flagship event to synthesize a city’s epicurean allure.

GRAPHIC footage of a rogue cop bashing handcuffed tourists in a Whitsunday police station has today been shown in court.

A MAN who caused Hornsby railway station to be shut down after being found with a gun has faced court charged with a break and enter where a victim was shot in the stomach.

Asia-Pacific airline Virgin Blue suspended its IT systems again today in an attempt to fix previous problems with its Navitaire-run technology.

I'm not sure how it's possible that we've been here over three years and yesterday was my first real visit to Paddy's Market, that seems very strange.

It was a beautiful day last Sunday and I had been bugging Joe for a while to do the "Bondi to Coogee" walk.

Where else in the world would you want to be for new years eve? 1.5 million people agree that there is no better place to spend new years: SYDNEY – Australia

Many flights leave out of Darwin around or after midnight so I was lucky to snare a circa 1m wide couch to sleep on with it being so busy. There are probably a few dozen couches so there’s a good opportunity to bag one overnight.