By Gavin EvansSept. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Four Australian oil companies bought stakes in onshore exploration permits offered by New Zealand's government in the Taranaki ... ., and GB Energy with Christchurch-based Green Gate Ltd.The remaining acreage was taken up by closely held New Zealand explorers Todd Energy Ltd. and Greymouth Petroleum Ltd.Greymouth acquired three permits in the central part of the ...

Sydney, Australia, October 1, 2008 – ASUS, manufacturer and pioneer of world-leading netbooks, has received acclaim from history-making Australian explorers Chris Bray and Clark Carter. After spending 70 days alone on Victoria Island in the Canadian Arctic, the world's ninth largest island, Chris Bray and Clark Carter achieved a most extraordinary feat to become the first [...]

... rush, 58 (years) from the first establishment here of democratic self-government. Some Australian who went to the war had ancestors still alive who could remember some of the first generation of countrymen; ... grandparents or great grandparents who could tell them of the gold rush, the bushrangers, the later explorers and the imported convicts.Yet, though many of the older men and women had actually ...

Wednesday, September 03, 2008Capitol to assist oil explorers that follow requirementsCAPITOL will support proponents of exploratory oil and gas drillings in the Tañon and Cebu-Bohol Straits if they comply with requirements for such operations.Australian-based NorAsian Energy Limited reportedly started conducting a seismic survey off the waters of Argao and ...

... million years. The first humans to discover and make use of Banksia plants were the Australian aborigines who used the nectar from the flowers as part of their diet. The first Europeans to observe banksias were probably Dutch explorers who made several landfalls along the West Australian coast during the 17th and early 18th centuries. No botanical collections were made, however, until ...

"Firsts" is the theme that guided the State Library of New South Wales' curation of their first installment in The Commons on Flickr. Welcome! Browse some Australian aviation firsts, like this, the first passengers carried in a powered aircraft, at the Ascot Raceway in 1911: Or, glimpse into the lives of the first Australian Antarctic explorers (a [...]