The Prime Minister has left open the possibility of using health policy to trigger a double dissolution election. The Senate is expected to vote for a second time on the Government's plan to means test the private health insurance rebate. If it's rej...
A 22-year-old woman will face court today charged with the manslaughter of the former Socceroo Ian Gray. The 46-year-old former Australian soccer player was found in his Sydney apartment on Monday night. Investigators arrested a 22-year-old at a King...
A Senate inquiry will begin its public hearings today into the government's multi-billion-dollar home insulation program. The inquiry will hear evidence from a number of stakeholders within the insulation industry. The government's been criticized fo...
Investigation is underway into security at schools after the stabbing murder of a 12-year-old boy. Brisbane schoolboy Elliott Fletcher died yesterday after he was stabbed during a fight at St. Patricks College in Shorncliffe. A 13-year-old student is...
Five Sydney men who planned a violent jihad on Australia will be sentenced today. In October last year, a jury found them guilty of conspiring to commit acts of terrorism. The men have been in custody since their homes were raided in 2005. They face...
Hello, Kathryn Stolarchuk with the National Weather. Checking the satellite picture, and thick cloud from the north to the southeast is generating rain and storms, leading to flooding in Queensland and New South Wales. Patchy cloud forming over South...
Economic growth in Europe has faltered despite governments spending billions of dollars in stimulus. New figures show that in the final quarter of last year, growth in the 16 eurozone countries was 0.1%. Spain is in its 6th quarter of negative growth...
The former US President Bill Clinton has been taken to hospital in New York, he was admitted suffering from chest pains and has already undergone surgery to unblock two arteries. In 2004, President Clinton had a quadruple bypass operation. The Federa...
Australian citizen Stern Hu and three other Rio Tinto employees will stand trial in China charged with stealing commercial secrets and accepting bribes. It's alleged they used improper means to obtain secrets and bribes from several Chinese steel fir...
Toyota is in damage control after it was forced to recall more than 400,000 Hybrid cars because of braking problems. The global recall includes 2,500 Prius vehicles in Australia. And the Japanese carmaker is facing another investigation in the US wit...
Prosecutors have charged Michael Jackson's doctor with involuntary manslaughter. Michael Jackson's family arrived at the LA court to see Conrad Murray charged over the singer's death. Dr. Murray is accused of acting without caution when he administer...
Rescuers are still searching for survivors of a massive explosion at a power plant in the US state of Connecticut. Up to 50 people were reportedly feared dead and dozens more have been injured. It's believed the explosion was caused by a ruptured gas...
Hello, Kirsty Heenan with the National Weather. Checking the satellite picture first and a cloud across much of the east is generating showers and storms in Queensland and flooding in eastern New South Wales. Cloud across the interior and south is tr...
US President Barack Obama says new jobs figures show the United States is climbing out of a huge hole created by the recession. But he has also cautioned the figures are not cause for celebration. The jobless rate fell to 9.7% in January from 10% in...
Thereve been chaotic scenes outside a Port-au-Prince court where 10 Americans have been charged with child abduction. The five men and five women were arrested nearly a week ago, after trying to take a busload of Haitian children out of the country....
