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Lydia Lassila won the third Olympic aerials medal — and second gold — for Australia on Wednesday night, flying pencil-straight through the dreary fog to defeat two of China’s best, Li Nina and Guo Xinxin.

Lassila credits the Aussie government and its freestyle program for creating her country’s success by bankrolling the training, . . . → Read More: Lydia Lassila Brings Home Another Gold for Australia

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Their plates overflowing with solidarity, many Australians tucked into Indian cuisine on Wednesday. From Victoria Premier John Brumby to the crowds that thronged Indian restaurants as part of the `Vindaloo Against Violence’ initiative.

Brumby ate lunch with members of the Indian community at Melbourne’s popular Indian cafe Desi Dhaba while Indian food, including . . . → Read More: Vindaloo Against Violence

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Insatiable demand from China and other Asian countries is about to put a booster rocket on Australia’s economic growth, pushing mineral export prices almost to pre-crisis levels, the Australian Reserve Bank predicts.

Assistant governor Phillip Lowe told a conference last week that China’s extraordinary economic growth has ”some decades to run” – and Australia . . . → Read More: Australia’s Economic Growth About To Skyrocket

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Work has started on the first section of the backbone for Australia’s National Broadband Network, the project funded by the government that will allow rival users to deliver high-speed internet services.

Australia’s minister for broadband, communications and the digital economy, Stephen Conroy, visited a remote corner of Queensland to see the work being started . . . → Read More: Australia’s National Broadband Network

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Australia’s national airline, Qantas says it is cutting first class seats from all but a few routes after reporting a 72% drop in profits.

Net income for the six months to 31 December 2009 was 58m Australian dollars ($52m; £33m), down from A$210m a year before.

The company blamed the figures on a drop . . . → Read More: Qantas Cut First Class Seats

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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said his government remains opposed to adopting a civil nuclear power program.  ”The priority now was to develop effective technology for carbon capture and storage to tackle greenhouse gas emissions.”

He also said the people of Australia could debate anything they wanted.

“Our policy is that Australia has multiple . . . → Read More: Australia Remains Opposed to Nuclear

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I came across this article by Christopher Clarey of The New York Times. In it he highlights the like between Australians and Whistler home of the current Winter Olympics.

“It was well after 1 a.m. Monday in this party town.

Another line had formed outside the Longhorn Saloon, and suddenly, above the buzz of . . . → Read More: Australia At The Winter Olympics

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As a newly elected independent MP in 1996, Pauline Hanson declared in her maiden parliamentary speech that Australia was “being swamped by Asians”. She founded the One Nation Party on the platform of bringing net migration to Australia to zero and abolishing multiculturalism in favour of “assimilation”.  Now, Australia’s most prominent crusader against immigration . . . → Read More: Things Are Looking Up in Australia – Pauline Hanson is Leaving