A new report by the Grattan Institute says the Australian students are falling well behind their east Asian counterpart.Says Australia's education reforms are focusing on the wrong areas.Says Australia should be spending money on improving teacher qu...
Qantas is expected to hundreds of jobs when it releases its hard failure result today.The speculation the airline will close one of its two maintenance in Victoria.Qantas has already flagged a sharp decline in profits. Analysts say a strike by coal m...
The competition watch dog has set the prices that Telstra can charge its competitors the high speed broadband.The Australia competition and consumer commission will regulate price of ADSL to prevent Telstra from overcharging its rivals for the fixed...
Labor and Peace are questioning the Prime Minister's judgement after she decided appeal a Four Corner's report about the leadership coup.In a interview with the program,Juile Gillard denied she had been plotted to over-threaten Kevin Rudd weeks befor...
Police clashed with protesters outside the Greek Parliament as PMs prepared to vote on the unpopular austerity reforms.Buildings near the Parliament have been satellited.The IMF and the European Union say they want approve nearly 200 billion dollar b...
Australia's most powerful indigenous land council has thrown its weight behind a push to stop seabed mining. There has been a surging applications to explore for minerals off the Northern Territory coast. Traditional owners on Groote Eylandt, north a...
A trough in the east is generating heavy rains and possible storms across New South Wales and Victoria. Cool southeasterly winds are producing isolated showers along the southern coast, and a trough in the west is also bringing rain to Western Austra...
A Sydney abattoir accused animal cruelty has been closed.Secret footage filmed at the abattoir shows animals being beaten before they slaughtered.The New South Wales food authority has launched an investigation. The federal government looks like will...
Police in the Queensland town of Saint George say it's unlikely that residents would be allowed back their homes until the weekend of the earliest.Flood waters there appear to a final peak just below 14 meters.Defense Force personnel have arrived in...
New Zealand born billionaire is negotiating to buy substantial slash Tasmanian based timber Gunns.The ABC understands that Richard Chandler wants to buy around 40% of the company.The investment potentially clears the way it build the Tamar Valley pul...
Residents in Saint George in southern Queensland are hoping a make-shift levee will hold back the worst of the record flood threatening the town.The Balonne river is expected to pick just over 14 meters this morning.About 30 homes have already been f...
The remaining residence of Saint George will meet at the town's show grand this morning for a final evacuation.Flood waters are now cut off the southern Queensland town.Thousands of people fled yesterday in the largest mandatory evacuation in Queensl...
The unemployment fell to 8.3% in January.It'the lowest in more than two years in US.The economy had 243,000 job loss last month much better than the average annual forecast.And the White House says it's a sign that United States is continuing to make...
Taking a look at the satellite image.A low is bringing rain,storms and strong winds to Queensland's tropical coast. A trough over the southern Queensland and New South Wales is weakening,which could bring some relief to flood affected areas.Ex-tropic...
Residence in northern New South Wales and southern Queensland are preparing for record flood.Ten and half thousand people across northern NSW are cut off by flood waters.More than two thousands people have been forced from their homes at Moree and Be...
