Latest and Most Recent News from Oceania

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An Australian job expo in Auckland where more than 6000 people lined up to find out about work across the Tasman shows National's economic management has failed, Labour leader Phil Goff says.

Source: Kiwis still flocking to Australia for jobs

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PAPUA New Guinea police are investigating allegations a brutal attack on an Australian aid worker is linked to his work exposing corruption.

Source: Port Moresby: Aussie aid workers under attack in PNG

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HOUSING CRISIS: Ewing Poultry owners Lloyd and Gwen Ewing with free-range shaver brown hens on their Quail Valley farm.

Source: New cages hardly a paltry cost

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Flight instructor Amy Somers is ready to teach in the airspace over the Vanderhoof airport as the College of New Caledonia launches its northern aviation program.

Source: Pilot training program comes to Vanderhoof

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PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has entered talks with her New Zealand counterpart after an elaborate welcome to the country's Parliament House in her first visit since becoming Australia's leader.

Source: Warriors welcome Gillard to NZ Parliament

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Japan has temporarily suspended its annual Antarctic whaling after repeated harassment by a conservationist group, a government official said Wednesday.Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ships have been chasing the Japanese whaling fleet for weeks in the icy seas off Antarctica, trying to block Japan's annual whale hunt, planned for up to 945 ...

Source: Japan suspends whaling hunt after activists harass

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BHP Billiton , the world's biggest miner, plans to pour $80 billion into expansions over the next five years and return cash to investors rather than chase ambitious takeovers, after nearly doubling its first-half profit to a record.

Source: BHP goes on $80 billion expansion spree

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A car powered primarily by wind and kites has made it across a vast swathe of Australia, enduring searing heat and freezing cold along the way -- and all for roughly $10 Australian.

Source: Wind-powered car succeeds in test

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Youngsters at the Price household start to clean up after Cyclone Carlos dumped record rain on Darwin.

Source: Cyclone Carlos dumps record rains on Darwin

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Protests over Christmas Island orphan The Sydney-based family of an asylum-seeker group protests immigration officials' decision to return an orphan boy to Christmas Island.

Source: Bid to block orphan's return to detention