Playschool star and multi award-winning actress Deborah Mailman will join The Queensland Orchestra and the internationally acclaimed Silver-Garburg piano duo in a very special concert performance of the much loved Hans Christian Andersen story, The Little Mermaid.

Will the inspector discover the culprit?, what fabulous discoveries will young Emily make when she visits her Granpa’s house to play? All will be revealed in the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Windmill Performing Arts June blockbuster double bill, The Composer is Dead and Granpa.

Calling for an end to nuclear weapons across the world, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has urged nations of the Asia-Pacific region to work jointly to usher in an era of peace.

The Australian Ballet in association with QPAC presents Maina Gielgud's much-loved and extraordinarily beautiful production of Giselle between 8 and 12 July at the Lyric Theatre in Brisbane.

This June at the Arts Centre in Melbourne, The Australian Ballet pays homage to the splendour of Russian Imperial ballet and its father, Marius Petipa, alongside George Balanchine's magnificent tribute to the Russian tradition, Ballet Imperial.

On Thursday 5 June, internationally renowned conductor and violinist, Nikolaj Znaider, will perform with The Queensland Orchestra - his only Australian appearance this year.

Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson has promised to overturn the Government's tax increase on pre-mixed alcohol and to scrap the changes to private health insurance, in his Budget reply speech tonight. In his reply Dr Nelson said he wants to see petrol excise cut by five cents a litre, which he said would have a modest downward impact on inflation.

The good gains made in the resources sector today have not been enough to overcome losses made by the banks and the overall market in Australia has closed lower.

Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc (NYSE: JWa), (NYSE: JWb), today announced its partnership with CPA Australia for the publication of the Australian Accounting Review.

One thousand Australians have spent the day proposing their ideas for a better future at day one of the 2020 summit in Canberra.

This June The Australian Ballet presents Jerome Robbins – a celebration at the Arts Centre. The programme is a tribute to the world-famous choreographer, whose genius stretched across decades and art forms The programme commemorates the tenth anniversary of Robbins' death and will be one of many such tributes around the world during 2008.

According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) a major magnitude 7.3 earthquake has struck 131 kilometers (82 miles) south, southwest of Macquarie Island, Australia.