Opposition leader Tony Abbott says a newly revealed document appears to show the prime minister breached the law over setting up that union slush fund. More of the transcript of an interview between Julia Gillard and her then employers at the law fir...
The Organization of Economic Development has warned the global financial crisis still has a long way to go. The OECD is expecting global growth of just 1.4 per cent. It also says the Eurozone will stay into recession well until 2013 and it's calling...
An abuse survivors group has complained to the international criminal court that the Catholic Church's guilty of crimes against humanity. Survivors network founder Barbara Blaine has travelled from the United States to give evidence at the Victorian...
The National Assessment Program in Australian schools has failed to score highly in a survey of more than 8,000 teachers. More than half say they now spend more time teaching for the Naplan test and less time on face-to-face learning. A group of scie...
When markets in Europe closed a couple of hours ago, London's FTSE 100 was up 28 points. The Dax and Euro were also up 64 and 22 points, respectively. In the US, trading comes to a close shortly and the Dow Jones is up 173 points, while the SP 500 is...
Let's take a look at the satellite. A trough is triggering storms over northern parts of Queensland. Another trough is generating showers and storms in the northern territory and WA. And a high is keeping the country's southeast dry. Looking around t...
A 17-year-old Brisbane girl has fallen to her death from a hotel balcony during schoolie celebrations on the Gold Coast. Police were called on to the Chevron Renaissance Hotel in Surfers' Paradise where her body was found on the pool deck. Prime Mini...
Israel and Hamas have stepped back from the brink of war this morning. A ceasefire was declared, an hour and a half ago, after a week of bloodshed, the truce was announced by Egypt's foreign minister at a Cairo news conference with the U.S Secretary...
To finance. Now the Reserve Bank has hinted it will cut interest rates next month, soaring in the month ahead, as the mining boom slows quicker than expected. Mr Stevens says the gloom over Europe's debt crisis is starting to ease, but he says produc...
At least 100 people have now died in those Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. A Medai Tower was targeted for a second day, killing at least one senior member of Islamic Jihad. Hamas is also being firing rockets at Israeli towns. Efforts are continuing in Ca...
A Hamas official and eight members of his family have been killed in a single strike on a Gaza home. Israel says the bombardment will continue for as long as Hamas keeps launching rockets across the border. Hamas has fired more than 500 rockets in th...
Efforts to avert the fiscal cliff are underway in the United States. President Barack Obama has met top US lawmakers, seeking a deal to head off a looming across the board tax hikes and spending cuts that could push the economy back into recession. I...
A trough over northeastern New South Wales and southern Queensland is triggering showers and the odd storm. While another trough over northern and western Australia is also bringing showers and storms. In the south, a high pressure system is directin...
Israel has intensified its airstrikes on Hamas targets in Gaza as the death toll on both sides rises. Hamas has responded with further rocket attacks on southern Israel. The leader of Hamas has declared a new phase of Palestinian resistance, but Isra...
Leading the news this morning. Tension has increased dramatically overnight in the Middle East with the assassination of a top Hamas military commander. Ahmed al-Jaabari was traveling through Gaza when a missile hit his car. Israel says that killed h...
