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Hobart man jailed, put on sex offenders list after harassing elderly women ...

A Hobart man has been jailed for three months and placed on the sex offenders register for making hundreds of menacing phone calls to elderly women living alone across Australia. Gary Bru Espinosa will serve three months actual jail time after being ... >> view original

Down Under wonder: Adventure's always better with mates

The icing on our travel cake was the 12 days thereafter spent in Hobart, Tasmania, with Aussie friends — Berwyn and Marion Huett — and at their holiday house in scenic Coles Bay. Highlights and high points: New Zealand certainly lives up to its ... >> view original

Amazing Aurora Australis

Feast your eyes on this spectacular natural light that happened in the skies above parts of New Zealand and Australia. The event is pretty common in the Northern Hemisphere but scenes like this are pretty rare in the Southern half of the world. It's called the ... >> view original

NASA and Microsoft plan to send HoloLens into space

Microsoft's augmented reality device HoloLens is about to into space. In a partnership with NASA, Microsoft will send a couple of the headsets to the International Space Station (ISS) for a project known as Project Sidekick, which aims to let astronauts go ... >> view original

The psychology of climate change: where do you stand?

A psychology honours student from Charles Sturt University has designed an online survey to find out what people really think about climate change. Jane Chrystal, the survey creator, said she had come across an array of attitudes towards climate change so ... >> view original

Paris 2015: Australia in the climate change spotlight

This article is part of Climate for Change, a Fairfax Media series on global warming. Full coverage can be found here. Follow our coverage on Facebook. The Chinese bureaucrat pushed the point. Was, he wondered, Australia expecting the world to do more ... >> view original

Tarantulas take over Australian town Maningrida east of Darwin

More than 25,000 venomous spiders have descended on a small town in Australia and experts have no idea why. Maningrida, which is 300 miles east of Darwin, is crawling with the creatures. However arachnologist, Dr Robert Raven, thinks the takeover ... >> view original

10 Australian families will be rewarded for exercising with 3D printed chocolate

Ten Australian families are to become part of a unique experiment where they are rewarded for exercising by being given 3D printed chocolates. RMIT researcher Rohit Ashok Khot is installing $6,000 3D food printers in the ten Melbourne homes to test if ... >> view original

Floating bio-robots to explore marine ecosystems in Indian Ocean

A fleet of floating bio-robots are being released in the Indian Ocean off Western Australia as part of an international project to demystify what lies below the surface. A bio-robot is a robot which can measure properties relevant to biology like organic matter. >> view original

Pope talking drivel in encyclical: Catholic economist

The latest papal encyclical is "drivel" in its commentary on the operation of markets, says Oliver Hartwich, a Catholic economist and executive director of libertarian think tank the New Zealand Initiative. The Laudato Si encyclical - a communication to bishops ... >> view original