Last Top Stories: Cairns boy hit by car fights for life

Cairns boy hit by car fights for life

A three-year-old boy is fighting for his life in hospital after being hit by a car in Cairns. The boy was taken to Cairns Base Hospital in a critical condition after being hit by a car on Thursday night in the suburb of Manunda. It's understood the ... >> view original

Cairns: More than meets the eye at Australia's Great Barrier Reef

Up, up, up and away we go. Hot air ballooning is probably the best way to wake up when you see the view over Aterthon Tablelands. — TODAY picSINGAPORE, June 25 — It was a case of deja vu to board SilkAir's inaugural direct flight to Cairns last month. >> view original

Cairns: More than just the Great Barrier Reef

It was a case of deja vu to board SilkAir's inaugural direct flight to Cairns last month. Many Singaporeans' would most probably be introduced to Australia through the cities of Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide or Perth; for me, the first and only Aussie ... >> view original

O'Connor set for Cairns PBR

TULLY-based professional bull rider Sam O'Connor has managed to hold on to a spot at the Professional Bull Rider's Cairns Invitational being held on July 4, almost guaranteeing his place in the Sydney final on July 11. O'Connor's hopes of making the ... >> view original

Floating bio-robots to explore marine ecosystems in Indian Ocean

A fleet of floating bio-robots are being released in the Indian Ocean off Western Australia as part of an international project to demystify what lies below the surface. A bio-robot is a robot which can measure properties relevant to biology like organic matter. >> view original

Tarantulas take over Australian town Maningrida east of Darwin

More than 25,000 venomous spiders have descended on a small town in Australia and experts have no idea why. Maningrida, which is 300 miles east of Darwin, is crawling with the creatures. However arachnologist, Dr Robert Raven, thinks the takeover ... >> view original

The psychology of climate change: where do you stand?

A psychology honours student from Charles Sturt University has designed an online survey to find out what people really think about climate change. Jane Chrystal, the survey creator, said she had come across an array of attitudes towards climate change so ... >> view original

Amazing Aurora Australis

Feast your eyes on this spectacular natural light that happened in the skies above parts of New Zealand and Australia. The event is pretty common in the Northern Hemisphere but scenes like this are pretty rare in the Southern half of the world. It's called the ... >> view original

Pope talking drivel in encyclical: Catholic economist

The latest papal encyclical is "drivel" in its commentary on the operation of markets, says Oliver Hartwich, a Catholic economist and executive director of libertarian think tank the New Zealand Initiative. The Laudato Si encyclical - a communication to bishops ... >> view original

Silent extinctions on coral reefs

Coral bleaching events have decimated reefs in some parts of Western Australia – but it is unknown if local extinctions have occurred. Credit: Zoe Richards/WA Museum. There is a ray of hope in the face of dire predictions about the future of coral reefs, with ... >> view original