Australia Travel News 11/01/2010

THERE are calls to introduce anger management courses for members of the judiciary after a man was jailed for addressing a magistrate as "mate".

Thieves broke into the Nowra Wildlife Park on the South Coast and stole Cheeky, a tiny, two-year-old common marmoset, from a mesh enclosure at the weekend.

LIFEGUARDS are on a heightened shark watch as huge schools of salmon and bonito move close inshore off Sydney's most popular beaches.

A HOLIDAY of a lifetime turned into a nightmare for a German tourist who lost her husband on a camping trip in the Territory.

QANTAS has left investors slightly worried about the pace of recovery in air travel after it highlighted the patchy demand on its international network and the battle for leisure travellers in the domestic market.

A MOTHER and son have been arrested after Australia's fifth-largest drug seizure.

As we drove around in the savannah of far north Queensland, Australia, we saw so many big termite hills. Thousands and thousands of them. Sometimes they are called mounds, termitaria, or anthills, even though they are the nests of termites, not ants. Many of them that we saw were around 1-3 meters high.

Miss Universe Australia Jesinta Campbell has revealed she cut short a modelling trip to China after a man stabbed five of her friends on a catwalk.

THE local arm of US firm Krispy Kreme doughnuts has gone into voluntary administration because of poor sales. The directors of Krispy Kreme Australia on Friday appointed Mike Smith and Peter Hillig of accountancy firm Smith Hancock as joint voluntary administrators of the company.

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