1:08 PM AEDT | Australia is a step closer to getting a bill of rights, which could enshrine rights to free speech and non-discrimination.
11:34 AM AEDT | LOVE is wonderful the second time around, as the song says. But the housework load is not necessarily lighter or shared more equally in second marriages.
11:34 AM AEDT | AUSTRALIA'S aviation regulator could gain the power to suspend international airlines with unacceptable safety standards and deliver harsher penalties for regulatory breaches under proposals conta...
11:34 AM AEDT | SYDNEY has again been promised a second airport to ease pressure on the overstretched Kingsford Smith but the Government's ambiguity over its location has frustrated industry, invited Opposition ridicule and angered residents suffering from aircraft noise.
11:03 AM AEDT | A man who spent more than four years denying that he killed his pregnant girlfriend took police on a wild goose chase to Central Coast bushland where he claimed he had buried her body.
1:00 AM AEDT | AUSTRALIA is a step closer to getting a bill of rights, which could enshrine rights to free speech and non-discrimination. The Federal Government is set to begin a consultation process into what the document should look like next week.
1:00 AM AEDT | MANY mortgage holders may be "oblivious" to the fact they have to ask their bank for an upfront interest rate saving, according to consumer group Choice.
When interest rates go up, banks a...
1:00 AM AEDT | THE Reserve Bank has not ruled out further rate cuts after it slashed 1 percentage point from borrowing costs yesterday, while the Government stands ready to rain more money on families.
1:00 AM AEDT | THE Australian population is growing at its fastest pace in almost 20 years, prompting claims by developers that a housing shortage will only intensify.
The national population reached 21.4 millio...
1:00 AM AEDT | TEN per cent of all domestic violence homicide victims were children under the age of 15, according to new figures to be released today by the Australian Institute of Criminology.
1:00 AM AEDT | THE Federal Government's decision to include domestic aviation in its carbon emissions reduction scheme will lead to higher fares for passengers and be disastrous for regional airlines, operators ...
1:00 AM AEDT | LYNNE HANSEN stoically endured the death of her 20-year-old daughter at the hands of a panicked learner driver and said she had not harboured feelings of vengeance towards the woman who ran her down.
1:00 AM AEDT | NATHAN REES will marry his long-term partner Stacey Haines over the Christmas break in what he has described as a small wedding for family and friends.
1:00 AM AEDT | THE Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has told his backbenchers to hold their nerve over Labor's emissions trading scheme amid internal concerns about its impact on jobs and intense lobbying by interest...
1:00 AM AEDT | PATHWAYS shared by cyclists and pedestrians could be the way of the future, the body representing local councils says.
1:00 AM AEDT | The ancient world is so overrated. Mesopotamia might have been the "cradle of civilisation" and ancient Greece the "birthplace of democracy", but so what? I mean, they didn't even ...
1:00 AM AEDT | THE State Government is pressing ahead with plans to introduce a commuter ferry service to Parramatta, even though a $1.6 million special commission of inquiry found it was "not viable" and would create significant environmental damage.
1:00 AM AEDT | THE leader of Christmas Island has asked the Federal Government to hand over the empty $396 million detention centre for scientific research and education to ensure the island can survive when its phosphate mines are exhausted.
1:00 AM AEDT | ANOTHER hefty interest rate cut is helping aspiring home owners decide the time is ripe to enter the housing market.
Having spent a year renting in Ultimo, Jennie Grant saw the writing on the wall...
1:00 AM AEDT | WAITING times for public dental services could become even longer as a Senate impasse shows no sign of ending.