Australia's Aboriginals won land, now defend right to use it (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - For environmentalists, it doesn’t get much better than Australia’s Cape York Peninsula, a vast expanse of wetlands, tropical rainforest, savannah grasslands, and bone-white sand dunes, sheltering one-half of the country’s birds and one-third of its mammals.
Australian govt denies sacked PM behind leaks (AFP)

Australia's new prime minister Julia Gillard speaks at a press conference in Canberra. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has passionately rebutted accusations that she opposed popular welfare increases during cabinet talks, the latest distraction in an increasingly troubled campaign.(AFP/File/William West)AFP - Australia's government Thursday denied sacked ex-leader Kevin Rudd was behind leaks which have dented its election campaign and indicate lingering bitterness over last month's party coup.
Australia awards compensation for prison van death (AP)
AP - The family of an Aboriginal elder who died of heat stroke in a prison van with no air conditioning on a brutally hot day in Australia's Outback will be given 3.2 million Australian dollars ($2.9 million) in compensation, a state attorney general said Thursday.
Australia adopts new sanctions against Iran (AP)
AP - Australia will impose new sanctions against Iran, including restrictions for the first time on business dealings with that country's oil and gas sector, the country's foreign minister said Thursday.
Japan wants US Marines to move to Guam (AFP)

The US Marine airbase in Okinawa, Japan. Tokyo says it has no plan to delay transferring some 8,000 US Marines based on the southern island of Okinawa to the US Pacific territory of Guam by 2014.(AFP/File/Toshifumi Kitamura)AFP - Japan's government said Wednesday it had no plan to delay transferring some 8,000 US marines based on the southern island of Okinawa to the US Pacific territory of Guam by 2014.
Giant, dog-sized rat documented in East Timor (AFP)

This undated combo of pictures released by Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization (CSIRO) and Dr Ken Aplin shows upper toothrows of an extinct Timorese giant rat (L) -- what the researchers at CSIRO call the biggest rat that ever lived -- next to the entire skull of a common black rat (R), for comparison.(AFP/CSIRO/Dr Ken Aplin)AFP - Australian archaeologists have documented the remains of ancient giant rats the size of small dogs which were discovered in a remote East Timorese cave.
E.Timor awaits details on Australian asylum plan (AFP)

Activists from a refugee solidarity campaign group are seen during a rally in Sydney. East Timor said it is still waiting for details from Australia about a proposal to build a regional detention centre in the tiny country to host Australia-bound asylum seekers.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)AFP - East Timor said Tuesday it is still waiting for details from Australia about a proposal to build a regional detention centre in the tiny country to host Australia-bound asylum seekers.
Boat of plastic bottles ends 4-month Pacific sail (AP)

David de Rothschild, front right, skipper of the Plastiki, a boat made out of 12,500 recycled plastic bottles, shakes hands with Ian Kiernan, the Founder and Chairman of Clean Up Australia and Clean Up the World, in Sydney, Monday, July 26, 2010. The Plastiki arrives in Sydney four months after it set out from San Francisco on a journey across the Pacific Ocean meant to raise awareness about the perils of plastic waste. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)AP - A sailboat largely constructed from 12,500 recycled plastic bottles has completed a 4-month journey across the Pacific Ocean meant to raise awareness about the perils of plastic waste.
'Plastiki' bottle ship completes epic Pacific voyage (AFP)

The 'Plastiki', a boat made from 12,500 plastic bottles, completes her 8,000-nautical mile trans-Pacific voyage from San Francisco as she approaches Sydney Harbour on July 26, 2010. The Plastiki, which takes its name from Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition from South America to Polynesia on a raft of balsa husks, set off from San Francisco in March.(AFP/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - A boat crafted from thousands of plastic bottles sailed into Sydney Harbour on Monday, completing an epic trans-Pacific voyage to highlight the benefits of recycling.
Poll advantage narrows for Australia's Julia Gillard (Reuters)
Reuters - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard suffered twin setbacks on Monday after a poll showed her lead slashed ahead of an August 21 election and smaller miners resumed an advertising campaign against her new mining tax.
NZ teen survives 16-story fall onto concrete floor (AP)
AP - A 15-year-old New Zealand boy has survived a 16-story plunge from the balcony of his family's apartment onto a concrete floor.
Kapil Dev grants Indian migrant's last wish (AFP)

Legendary cricketer Kapil Dev speaks at a ceremony in Warrnambool, Australia. Dev Sunday helped grant the final wish of an Indian migrant who died in Australia 63 years ago -- to bring his ashes back home.(AFP/William West)AFP - Legendary cricketer Kapil Dev Sunday helped grant the final wish of an Indian migrant who died in Australia 63 years ago -- to bring his ashes back home.
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