Former primary schoolteacher Kate Bracks came from behind to steal victory from Adelaide cinema projectionist Michael Weldon in the MasterChef Australia grand final last night.August 8, 2011, 1:55 am
Australia will be asked to help shoulder the burden of the biggest humanitarian crisis in decades by providing a new home to hundreds of Somalis fleeing war and famine.August 6, 2011, 3:00 am
It may have been just like any other boat arrival at Flying Fish Cove but the scores of armed police officers standing by the jetty was a telltale sign that this load was different.August 5, 2011, 6:40 am
Australia will be “failing in humanity” if it sends unaccompanied asylum seeker children to Malaysia, Premier Colin Barnett says.August 5, 2011, 6:39 am
The Australian sharemarket has joined the global equities markets rout, closing down 4 per cent at a two-year low as eurozone contagion, fears of bank funding shortages and slowing global growth sparked a mass liquidation of risk assets.August 5, 2011, 6:10 am
In yet another sign of a difficult retail environment, a women's fashion house with stores across Australia has entered voluntary administration.August 4, 2011, 4:34 pm
Australia's safety watchdog has ended its investigation into grounded airline Tiger Airways and given the carrier a list of conditions to be met before allowing it to resume flights.August 4, 2011, 6:11 am
Australian investors lost $32 billion yesterday and shoppers continued their spending strike as fears grew that the US and Europe are headed back into recession.August 4, 2011, 2:40 am
WA's gold sector has thrown its weight behind the Andrew Forrest-led iron ore industry's campaign to defeat Julia Gillard's mining tax, saying it would no longer trust Australia's elected leader.August 4, 2011, 2:38 am
Perth is the most expensive capital city in the country for a bunch of bananas and to spend some time in the loo.August 4, 2011, 2:37 am
Police tonight defused a bomb strapped to a teenage girl after a terrifying 10-hour ordeal, believed to be a suspected extortion attempt, in one of Sydney's wealthiest suburbs.August 3, 2011, 10:28 pm
Expectations were high for Miranda Kerr’s return to the David Jones runway and the supermodel mother didn’t disappoint at last night’s spring-summer fashion launch in Sydney, commanding the attention of a 400-strong crowd.August 3, 2011, 6:00 pm
Bomb squad officers are working to defuse a suspicious device in the home of an 18-year-old woman on Sydney’s north shore.August 3, 2011, 5:22 pm
The Reserve Bank's decision to leave interest rates on hold has been justified by new figures showing shoppers are abandoning department stores.August 3, 2011, 9:45 am
The Reserve Bank has been warned that it threatens the non-mining part of the economy with recession if it lifts official interest rates today.August 2, 2011, 6:02 am
A young boy is set to become the litmus test of Julia Gillard's promised hardline approach to border protection.August 2, 2011, 2:00 am
Former lawyer Andrew Fraser, who is collecting fresh evidence to exonerate convicted killer Bradley John Murdoch of the murder of backpacker Peter Falconio, says he will have the basis for an appeal within a year.August 1, 2011, 11:55 am
The first group of asylum seekers to be sent to Malaysia could initially stay on Christmas Island up to a month - despite the Gillard Government setting a 72-hour turnaround target.August 1, 2011, 5:28 am
The Federal Government must improve support for former and serving Australian soldiers who have mental trauma, a former government adviser warned yesterday.August 1, 2011, 2:25 am
A Royal Australian Navy crew member has been flown by helicopter from the subantarctic Auckland Islands to Dunedin Hospital after coming down with appendicitis.July 31, 2011, 3:23 pm
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