Esther Tanquintic-Misa

The Flight Attendants Association of Australia (FAAA) has called on the national government to standardise the prevailing regulations of the airline industry's carry-on luggage to ensure the safety of both flight attendants and airline travellers, as well as prevent undue delays brought about luggage traffic on departing flights.

The state government of Queensland has finally approved to push through with the closures and sale of some 13 empty TAFE (Technical and Further Education) Campuses, while another 12 are being planned to be combined the Central Queensland Institute of TAFE and the Central Queensland University.

The Australian government, after successfully overcoming hurdles to the tobacco plain packaging, is now mulling suggestions to include warnings on the labels of alcoholic drinks, especially those geared towards expecting or pregnant women.

Effective Saturday, Dec 1, all cigarettes or tobacco packs in Australia will be sold in identical, olive-brown plain packaging.

The Bovine Johne's Disease (BJD) first detected among a number of cattle herd in Central Queensland may have already spread out, possibly infecting 160 properties.

Shares of Australian rare earths miner Lynas Corp. jumped to as much as 7.4 per cent in early trade on Friday as the mining company reached a "significant milestone" with the start of operations of its highly-controversial Malaysian processing plant.

Camera enthusiasts fond of taking pictures and immediately uploading them to social networking sites as well as blogs may now purchase the internet-ready Samsung Galaxy Camera as the Korean firm launches the latest tech gadget in Australia today.

Latest data released Wednesday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has revealed that the suburb Toorak of Melbourne has Australia's highest wage earners. Residents in those area have a net take home pay of at least $132,252.

With global prices of commodities still on a downslide, and the proverbial gold at the end of the rainbow still way out of sight, global mining giant Rio Tinto has announced it will reduce unnecessary costs to generate a $5 billion savings by the end of 2014.

Queensland state is known for its coal resources, but new evidence point that the region's mining frontier has shifted to Curtis Island what with the number of liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects lined up in the island.

Despite the opposition from local fishermen, the state government of South Australia has pushed through with the establishment of a network of 19 marine parks off the state's coast. The new zones took effect Thursday, Nov. 29.

Australians wanting to have that tanned skin may well have it this summer season, but still beware as weather forecasters predict the country could be facing more of the sun's radiant glory.

Australians wanting to have that tanned skin may well have it this summer season, but still beware as weather forecasters predict the country could be facing more of the sun's radiant glory.

After 17 months of secretly working with financial institutions and international law representatives from other nations, the Australian Federal Police on Thursday announced it had thwarted a Romanian-based gang of credit card fraudsters, detaining 16 people and eventually arresting seven of them in Romania.

A pregnant mother living in Australia is in one of the best places in the world, according to a recent survey done by The Economist's Intelligence Unit.

Hawaiian Airlines has made its first flight call to Brisbane, its second port of call in entire Australia.

Toro Energy, which is out to construct the first ever uranium mine in Western Australia, has delayed to the back burner the financing negotiations over the proposed mine project in Wiluna pending the approval and release of the federal government's environmental decision.

Click Frenzy may have been an event organisational disaster, but there is no denying that it magnified and somehow sealed the future of online selling in Australia.

Tourism Australia has lost some A$44 million funding support from Qantas Airways Ltd. over allegations the tourism group's chairman is involved in a demolition job scheme to oust the airline company's chief executive.

When the waters of Bondi Beach turned tomato red on Tuesday morning due to some "algal" infection of the waters, it elicited two types of reactions from the people who witnessed it. One was fear. But the others who were more hard-core adventurous, took a dip into the red waters. Now health authorities are worried those who swam in the infected waters could be at risk.

Prices of the safe haven yellow precious metal jumped 0.2 per cent to $1,751.80 an ounce after finance ministers in the heavily fiscal-affected eurozone and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreed to reduced Greece's long-term debt.

China has become the preferred partner of most Australian universities when it comes to boosting knowledge linkages for student and staff exchange as well as collaborative research.

China has become the preferred partner of most Australian universities when it comes to boosting knowledge linkages for student and staff exchange as well as collaborative research.

Australia has two years to prepare and work on strengthening policies and mechanisms to ensure it won't plunge into a recession.

A proposal to apply audio recording in cabs in Queensland has been lodged for public opinion by the state government.

A rare bovine disease, called Bovine Johne's Disease (BJD), has been detected among a number of cattle herd in Central Queensland. But an agriculture lobby group had maintained the beef from the concerned state remains safe to eat as BJD cannot affect humans.

For the next 40 years, the management of South Australia's lottery and Keno services will be managed by Tatts Group after the gaming giant shelled out $427 million to acquire its licence from the SA state government.

The federal government of Australia is set to release a draft bill that when legalised will forced companies to reveal the net salaries of its top execs as well as require its top guys to return wrongly paid bonuses.

Some 10,000 protesters opposed to the presence of the rare earths processing plant by Australian miner Lynas Corp in Kuantan, Malaysia had ended their 13-day protest march in Kuala Lumpur, arriving in the Malaysian capital on Sunday.