Latest and Most Recent Oceania News [June 2011 Bulletin]

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BELATEDLY the cruelty involved in Australia's trade in live animals was laid bloodied and bare in a grisly ABC Four Corners program.

Source: Blood boiling over cattle, cats and carbon tax

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Police and an inspector from the Department of Mines and Petroleum are investigating the incident Map: Karratha 6714 Police divers have joined the search for a man feared dead after an incident at a Rio Tinto wharf in Western Australia's north-west. Police say the man was reported missing after the scaffolding he was dismantling collapsed into the ...

Source: Man feared dead in mining port accident

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SYDNEY'S failure to secure major international conferences, which are being routinely poached by Melbourne and Brisbane, has cost NSW half a billion dollars over the past five years.

Source: City's $500m lost opportunity

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Australia's leader faces her toughest political test to date as she tries to sell the nation on a carbon tax that would lead to higher power prices while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Source: Australian PM faces toughest test on carbon tax

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Maverick MP Bob Katter has launched a new political party he says will be a force to be reckoned with at the next federal and Queensland polls.

Source: Katter unveils 'unashamedly agriculture' party

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Paul Henry says he's sorry for saying a Greenpeace activist had a moustache but has no regrets about any of the comments that led to his sacking as presenter on TVNZ's Breakfast programme.

Source: I'm cheeky not racist, says Henry

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While the rest of New Zealand has been focused on government budgets and red ink, of late we have turned to more humble matters: the pumpkin.

Source: Great pumpkin sure is jack o' all trades

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TENS of thousands of people have rallied around Australia to ''say yes'' to action on climate change.

Source: Impact on mining jobs trivial, report finds