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Andres Mejia still remembers the day when he arrived in Sydney in 2005, with just AUS $1200 and a lot of uncertainly about his future. “Now those days seem like a dream,” he said. Although Andres did not have money to spend …

It is the stuff of legend. In the red dust and heat of Western Australia’s Pilbara region, on the other side of the continent to their homelands and seas, a gang of Torres Strait Islanders didn’t just break the record time for …

I’ve never been much of a technophile but there I am standing outside the café, smartphone in hand, waiting to meet a friend for a breakfast arranged by text in response to an email that was confirmed by way of a Facebook …

When Tasmanian Mary Elizabeth Donaldson married the Danish Crown Prince Frederik – son of  Danish queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik –  in the Copenhagen Cathedral on May 14, 2004 they were showered with presents of every kind. Even a tram from Melbourne where Mary had at one …

The local Islander name for a small bird seen as a symbol of impending good weather has been chosen as the name of the first vessel in a planned fleet of seven ranger boats to be deployed across the Torres Strait. The …

Sophia Bashford investigates whether we’re getting our money’s worth for free-range eggs. I’m standing in Aisle 4 of the supermarket – the eggs section. Staring at the shelves in front of me, I’m met with a familiar dilemma. Do I pay the extra …

A forty minute drive to work to the city tires most of us; imagine if you had to drive for twelve hours every day in Sydney traffic writes Perin Sairs. In these hours of driving I assure you that you would be …

The President of Tanzania is poised to sign a deal with the United Arab Emirates owned Otterlo Business Corporation Ltd (OBC) which would force up to 48,000 members of Africa’s famous Maasai tribe from their land in the Ngorongoro District of Tanzania to …

A couple of yachties anchored in Escape River, near the tip of Cape York in far north Queensland, had a close encounter of the crocodile kind when they were woken by a large crashing sound in the middle of the night. Canadians Marian and David Paul woke …

In my world, a teasing text message is a real turn-on. An innuendo-loaded Facebook status floats my boat. A frisky email? Totally hot. As many can relate, this is my twenty-something world of modern dating. Wooing in a technological era. Techno-romance has always been …