The Australian Refugee Association says money made from a clearance auction at the former Baxter detention centre should go to former asylum seekers living in the community.
Hundreds of prospective buyers are expected at the auction near Port Augusta in South Australia today.
The immigration detention facility closed last year and furniture and other items have been [...]

Two superbly restored early 1970s Honda Mini Bikes will be the small sensations of Shannons Melbourne Winter Classic Auction on Monday June 2.
The bikes – a 1971 Honda SL70 KO and a 1973 Honda XR75 KO – have both been rebuilt by the same vendor to an exceptionally high standard.
Shannons expects the 1971 Honda to [...]

The last Victoria Cross awarded to an Australian in World War I, has been sold for $468,000 at Sotheby’s in Melbourne. Lieutenant George Ingram’s Victoria Cross will now be given to the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
Lieutenant Ingram, won his VC on October 5, 1918, at Montbrehain, on the Western Front in France, in what [...]

Sensis has announced that its classifieds publication, Trading Post, has launched an online auction, in tandem with a revamped website for the weekly classifieds publication to provide a service for Australian users.
Sensis chief executive Bruce Akhurst said some two million people already use the http://www.tradingpost.com.au site to buy and sell goods and services.
The company now [...]

In a media release issued by the South Australian Government on the 21 May 2008, Acting Premier Kevin Foley said he accepted an invitation from Mr Stokes to enter a combined bid to jointly purchase Major Badcoe’s Victoria Cross, other medals and a Burke and Wills Breastplate, which sold for a total of $488,000 including [...]

Goulburn Airport will go up for auction in about three months, following councillors’ unanimous endorsement at a meeting last Tuesday to offload the facility.
The decision to sell came after council’s recently aborted expressions of interest process in which it turned down a $1.3m offer from International Art Services. goulburn.yourguide.com.au

An original, 1969 HT ‘Bathurst’ Monaro GTS 350 coupe with just 71,000 miles on its odometer is one of the highlights of Shannons’ up-coming Melbourne Winter Classic Auction on Monday June 2.
Still finished in its original Platinum Silver paintwork with pristine red trim, the flagship model Monaro is totally unmodified and retains its original period [...]