What's your favorite restaurant? McDonald's, right? Not if you are from Australia. If you are from Australia, your favorite restaurant is "Macca's."

An eastern grey kangaroo managed to make its way into the Melbourne Airport parking lot this morning, where it proceeded to give staffers, police, and wildlife experts the hop-around for two hours before being caught.

A mother in Australia was stunned to find several highly venomous snakes slithering around inside her bedroom wardrobe after they hatched from eggs brought into the Queensland home by her son a few weeks earlier.

In an outcome that seemed inevitable as soon as news broke of Kate Middleton's nurse's suicide, Southern Cross Austereo has announced the "termination" of the radio program that aired the prank call to King Edward VII Hospital in London.

A judge in Australia ruled this week that Betty Harris's revised will was valid, and she had every right to disinherit her relatives and leave her multi-million-dollar estate to the nice people who live next door.

Internet nostalgia is having a moment. Animated gifs, AOL Instant Messenger, even the bracing sound of the dial-up modem have all been fondly fetishized as relics of an older internet. Now a slightly more stomach-churning bit of online past can be yours with a custom Goatse email address. The most famous gross-out meme on the internet is back, in a way.

In the run-up to, and immediate aftermath of, every presidential election there will be those who say they are moving to [insert foreign country here] if their candidate's main challenger wins.

Australian prime minister Julia Gillard has accomplished something previously reserved for Homer Simpson and horny preteens: she has revised the dictionary. Well, the Australian dictionary, which is sort of a real dictionary, except it is written by the descendants of criminals.

Members of the Burleigh Point Outrigger Canoe Club were paddling across Tallebudgera Creek on Australia's Gold Coast, when they encountered a koala splashing in the water.

Despite strong opposition from cigarette manufacturers, Australia's High Court ruled today in favor of a law requiring the replacement of logos on tobacco packaging with graphic health warnings.

Just months after making public his intentions to build a fully functional replica of the RMS Titanic, eccentric Australian billionaire Clive Palmer is already setting his sights on another larger-than-life endeavor: Cloning a dinosaur for a Jurassic Park-style attraction.

A 23-year-old is in hospital today after suffering extensive burns following an attempt to delight party-goers with the ol' "firecrackers between the butt cheeks" gag.

Sydney, Australia is set to get that mega-brothel it's been hankering for, after the owners of Stiletto, "the world's finest short-stay boutique hotel and Sydney brothel" won an appeal to expand their business, the AFP reports.

Good news, everyone: the phrase "A dingo ate my baby!" is factually accurate.

Looks like The Wiggles have finally given up on your children. The BBC reports that three of the four founding members announced their retirement Thursday.

Police in Australia are being accused of using a human shield in order to stop a speeding driver.

Australian mining magnate and National Living Treasure Clive Palmer has made formal his intentions to construct a near-exact replica of the Titanic, and sail it from England to North America in late 2016.

In his capacity as judge and coach on the Australian version of Dutch singing competition The Voice, singer-songwriter Seal holds in his hands the fate of hopeful contestants yearning for superstardom.

Three British men who broke into an Australian Sea World while intoxicated, swam with dolphins and stole a penguin, claimed they had no memory of the incident when the woke up hungover the next day.

A woman injured while having sex in a hotel room is entitled to workers' compensation, an Australian federal judge ruled today.