Aussies honoured in US

Bindi Irwin in LA at a tribute to her late dad. Photo / Reuters

Bindi Irwin shared the red carpet with Cate Blanchett, Russell Crowe was fashionably late and there was a taste of Kazakhstan at the weekend's glamorous G'Day USA Penfolds Icon Ball in Los Angeles.

More than 1200 celebrities, business leaders, politicians and star-spotting Aussie commoners came together at the black-tie event.

With seats selling for up to US$1000 ($1446) each, guests included Sacha Baron Cohen, John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John and Peter Fonda. The event was held to honour Crowe, Naomi Watts and Bindi's dad, the late Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin.