A service will be held in an airbase in the United Arab Emirates today for two Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan. The Brisbane-based combat engineers, 26-year-old Sapper Darren Smith and 21-year-old Sapper Jacob Moerland were killed by a road...
More than 80 asylum seekers have spent their first night at a mining camp in the remote Western Australian town of Leonora. The families from Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Iran were flown to the town yesterday from the overcrowd detention centre at Chri...
A poll shows that the Rudd Government would lose in an election if it was held today. The Nelson poll conducted for Fairfax, shows the Coalition leads Labor on a two-party preferred basis by 53% to 47%. That's an increase of three percentage points f...
Cloud along the New South Wales coastline will cause showers offshore. Therell also be a cold front and some rain in the states southeast. In Western Australia, clouds blanketing much of the south bringing with it rain. And taking a look at the state...
A positive turn in the US jobs market has failed to lift hopes of an economic recovery with 431,000 new jobs recorded in May. The unemployment rate dropped from 9.7 percent to 9.9 percent last month on the back of public sector hiring for an upcoming...
Close to 1.4 million workers are expected to benefit from a boost to the minimum wage. The Fair Pay Commission's awarded a $26-a-week increase, taking the minimum wage to 570 dollars. Employers had argued the increase should be limited to $ 12.50. Th...
The second Australian was wounded during Israel's raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. Fairfax photographer Kate Geraghty said she was attacked with a stun gun and suffered burns and bruising. Israel is deporting nearly 700 people arrested during the r...
Australian system of detaining and processing asylum seekers offshore is being challenged in the High Court. Four new challenges to the policy have been filed. Lawyers for at least 13 Afghani and Sri Lankan asylum seekers have already managed to dela...
Documents show the Federal Government was planning ads promoting its super profits tax before the Henry review was publicly released. The review recommended the mining tax. Letters between Federal MPs show the Government expected the tax to affect sh...
In the US, it's feared it could be more than two months before oil stops leaking from a well in the Gulf of Mexico. BP's latest attempt to plug the leak failed. Twenty million gallons have so far spewed into the Gulf in the worst oil disaster in US h...