Marlboro : Google executive Michelle Guthrie has been hired by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) to replace Mark Scott as its managing director. It is the first time the broadcaster has hired a woman for the position.Ms Guthrie joined Google in 2011 and is currently working in the technology giant’s offices in Singapore. ABC said her experience […]
Sydney : An Australian anti-marijuana campaign that features an intoxicated sloth has drawn expert criticism and online mockery.The Stoner Sloth campaign, financed by the New South Wales state government, aims to stop teens smoking marijuana.The sloth character is shown as unable to cope with various social scenarios after smoking the drug.Australia’s National Cannabis Prevention and […]
Sydney : The Australian state of Tasmania is considering raising the legal age for buying cigarettes to at least 21 and potentially as high as 25.If the plan goes ahead it will give Tasmania some of the toughest tobacco laws in the world.The current legal age to purchase, possess or smoke cigarettes in all Australian […]
Sydney : Twelve Australian families have lost their homes to bushfires near Melbourne, days ahead of Christmas.Fire authorities are also warning of dangerous hot and windy conditions on Christmas and Boxing Day.Crews were still tackling a blaze at Scotsburn, west of the city, for a third day on Monday.The Country Fire Authority’s (CFA) Craig Lapsley […]
New Delhi : Indian visitors travelling to Australia has hit an all-time record, with almost 230,000 arrivals in the year to September 2015 – an almost 20 per cent increase on the same period last year. The Australian High Commissioner to India, Patrick Suckling, said the strong people-to-people links between Australia and India had boosted […]