Live Work Travel Australia is a new glossy magazine for Irish nationals looking for a new life Down Under.
To be published in early October, LWTA will contain news, features and information for Irish nationals looking to live and work in Australia.
For those twentysomethings looking to come to Australia as a Working Holidaymaker or as temporary [...]

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has praised the contribution of generations of Irish immigrants to Australia.
Answering a series of questions about issues of concern to the Irish community, Ms Gillard reaffirmed her wish to see an Australian Republic in the future, expressed a desire to visit Ireland and looked forward to the forthcoming Irish In Australia [...]

Australian Of The Year and mental health reform advocate, Professor Patrick McGorry, has spoken out about the negative impact that prolonged detention can have on asylum seekers on Christmas Island.
Speaking on the 7PM Project news programme, the Dublin-born psychiatrist said that his visit to Christmas Island had not changed his position on the policy of [...]

The rumour mill is in over-drive as to whether U2 are indeed set to tour Australia and New Zealand this summer.
While promoters are staying tight-lipped on a trip down under, word on the street is that the Dublin legends may play here in November or December.
Tour dates on U2’s official website leave a gap between [...]

Convict sites across Australia – rich with Irish history – have been added to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s (UNESCO) World Heritage List.
The sites include Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney, Port Arthur in Tasmania, and Fremantle Prison in Western Australia.
Professor Elizabeth Malcolm, Gerry Higgins Chair of Irish Studies at the University of [...]

While the band has yet to confirm, industry sources suggest that U2 may tour Australia and New Zealand as early as November.
Radio Triple M reported last week that “all indications look like [U2’s Australian tour] is going to be this summer.”
Music reporter Nui Te Koha said that U2 look very likely to be here in [...]

A leading member of Queensland’s Irish business community is taking a stand against alleged unscrupulous practices by construction companies that have begun to operate in the State.
Smaller companies are struggling with a lack of work and they are not being paid for work that they have already done, according to Gerard Keogh, managing director of [...]

The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that British entrepreneur Richard Branson has accused Qantas’s Irish boss, Alan Joyce, of running scared as Virgin Blue steps up efforts to snare lucrative corporate clients from its arch rival.
This hostility between the pair was reignited when Mr Branson claimed that corporate clients were already switching to [...]

A meeting of the Young Irish Executives was held in Melbourne at the beginning of July.

Brisbane’s Courier Mail is reporting that the second week of December is firming as the window of U2’s return to Australia, provided Bono bounces back from surgery.
The US leg of the band’s 360º tour was thrown into chaos when Bono was forced to undergo surgery on his back.
However, the band’s manager told the Evening Herald [...]