Reports that Australia has been spying on Indonesia. That's prompted an angry response from Jakarta. The country's Foreign Ministry has summoned Australia's ambassador to question him about the reports that Australia has used its embassy in Jakarta a...
Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce says his department is investigating the latest breach of the system to protect live animal(口误) live exports from animal cruelty. New video footage obtained by the ABC shows Australian sheep being mistreated in...
To finance. And Beijing has criticised the Federal Government for upholding a decision to lock out Chinese telco giant at the National Broadband Network. Huawei was banned from tendering for work on the NBN by the previous Labor government because of...
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has made a surprise visit to Afghanistan to mark the symbolic end of Australia's longest war. Opposition leader Bill Shorten joined him on that trip.Mr Abbott told the troops war is ending not with victory or defeat， but...
America's spy chief General Keith Alexander has denied ever discussing the alleged tapping of the German Chancellor's phone with President Obama. German media reports claim that Angela Merkel's mobile phone may have been tapped for more than a decade...
The local share market finished higher today, buoyed by gains in energy and bank shares. The All Ordinaries Index put on 12 points and the ASX 200 added 13 points. Oil and gas producer Santos added almost two percent, while Woodside Petroleum put on...
A trough across the Top End is causing thundery showers with another trough bringing light rain and storms to northern and central WA. Cool, southwesterly winds are bringing light rain to Victoria and Tasmania. Mostly dry and warm in Queensland. Isol...
There's been a key development into police investigation into missing Melbourne school girl Siriyakorn Sirboon. The girl, also known as Bung, vanished while on her way to school more than two years ago. The ABC can reveal the taskforce set up to inve...
The defense force has been blamed for setting the largest fire in the Blue Mountains. Rural fire service investigators say an explosion during ordinance training at Marangaroo sparked the state mine fire at Lithgow. The Defense Department says it wil...
Let's take a look at some finance news now.And official figures out today are expected to show inflation picked up in the September quarter. Economists are tipping the consumer index rose by 0.8 of a percent over that period. Now that would put the a...
Leading the news this morning.Strong winds overnight have hampered back-burning efforts in the Blue Mountains. Fire crews are trying to stop two large fires merging into one massive front. Their efforts were hampered overnight when they have to diver...
Authorities in New South Wales are warning that the state is facing an unprecedented bushfire danger. A state of emergency has been declared with weather conditions set to worsen in the next three days. Authorities worry that three large fires in the...
After agreed to political ..., the United States government has finally reopened for business. US President Barack Obama has urged Republicans to view the deal to end a budget crisis as a new opportunity for bipartisan cooperation. He says there's be...
A trough over Queensland is triggering showers and ?the thunderstorm in the gulf country. Another trough in the west is generating thundery showers over the interior and directing heat into south Australia. A high is taking southeastern Australia mos...
Thousands of firefighters have spent the night battling bushfires right across the state. Hundreds of homes are feared lost as around 100 fires continue burning 36 of those remain out of control. Now emergency warnings are in place for a large fire b...
