INDIA has called for its students in Australia to show restraint in the face of a series of violent attacks against them, after more than 200 Indians protested on the streets and exacted a "vigilante" reprisal attack on a group of Middle Eastern men.

CLIMBING Uluru will be banned under a draft management plan for Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park released today by Parks Australia. A third of visitors each year - about 100,000 people - climb the rock despite signs from traditional owners pleading with...

TELSTRA warned the Rudd government that Australia's antiquated triple-0 emergency call service needed to be overhauled six months before the Black Saturday bushfires, during which thousands of people faced huge delays after frantically phoning for help.

AUSTRALIA'S lust for high-dollar Indian students has led to a thriving black market in sham marriages, forged English language exams and bogus courses, and turned a once-respected international education sector into a recognised immigration...

INNOVATION and leadership are being stifled in government schools as education authorities bully them into accepting one-size-fits-all projects under the Rudd government's education stimulus package, according to public school principals. Meanwhile,...