| Oz 'bikie gangs' recruiting drug mules on Facebook Australia's dangerous outlaw motorcycle gangs are using social networking sites such as Facebook to recruit drug mules, the country's top crime body has revealed.
The Australian Crime Commission's... | |
| Family links strong in Australian terror cells Family connections and friendships are at the core of the terrorist networks active in Australia over the past 12 years, a Monash University researcher has found.
Most of the 57 people identified... |
| Hilfenhaus to replace injured Lee in Australian ODI squad In-form Test bowler Ben Hilfenhaus has replaced Brett Lee in the Australia ODI squad for the ongoing cricket tri-series involving India and Sri Lanka.
Lee has been ruled out for four to six weeks... |
| Qantas boss says proposed law will threaten airline's future Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has said a proposed legislation forcing Qantas to maintain its base in Australia and perform the majority of heavy aircraft maintenance and training at home, would seriously... |
| In form Hilfenhaus replaces injured Lee in Oz One-Day squad In form swing bowler Ben Hilfenhaus will replace injured Brett Lee in the Australian One-Day squad for the ongoing Commonwealth Bank series.
He will join the Australian squad for Friday's match... |
| Oz police announce $100K reward for information about Indian man's death The Australian police has announced a 100,000 dollar reward for information about the death of an Indian national in New South Wales, two years ago.
The partially decomposed body of Pardeep Kumar,... |
| Schleck: Sad day for cycling Luxembourg cyclist Andy Schleck said he has 'no reason' to be pleased despite being awarded the 2010 Tour de France title.Schleck was announced as the retrospective winner after the World... |
| Gillard turns talk to economy Prime Minister Julia Gillard insists the economy and not Labor leadership speculation will dominate political debate this year and she is likely to be proved right, starting today with a... |
| Guilty over slab collapse A building site foreman, a structural engineer and a formwork company have pleaded guilty over a concrete slab collapse at a building site in the city's heart three years ago.But the defendants... |
| Greens could be cut down by colleague ACT Greens Shane Rattenbury and Caroline Le Couteur could face a challenge to their incumbency as lead candidates for their party in the Molonglo electorate in this year's territory... |
| Hopes of finding ACT rock fisher fade Hope is fading in the search for a Canberra man who went missing while rock fishing on the NSW South Coast.The 56-year-old man was fishing on his own, without a lifejacket, at Haycock Point, south of... |
| ABC to stick with tried and tested format The ABC will persevere with its evening news bulletin in Canberra despite a dramatic collapse in ratings.The national broadcaster's senior Canberra newsman said yesterday that there would be no... |
| Sydney extremists behind raid: embassy The Syrian embassy believes ''extremists from Sydney'' who are not Syrian were behind the attacks at the weekend and has called on the Australian government to take the... |
| Christmas sales boost territory's retail result The ACT has fought its way back from being one of the worst retail performers to record the best Christmas boost to sales in the country, new figures show.The latest retail trade figures show the... |
| Young robber warned to change his attitude A judge has warned a young man who stole thousands of dollars from a cash-transit driver he would spend his adult life in and out of prison without an attitude change.ACT Supreme Court Justice Hilary... |
| Flynn school's cultural significance 'irrelevant' The John Flynn Community Group say they have fresh evidence the suburb's school should be heritage protected after an architects group recognised its significance.But lawyers for the ACT... |
| Family seeks answers over baby's death A month-old baby boy died at a Sydney hospital after a catheter inserted into his neck perforated a vein, allowing fluid to leak into an area around his heart and lungs.Joshua Elliott was born on... |
| Raiders close in on signing Dugan The Canberra Raiders are growing more confident by the day they will re-sign Josh Dugan after the star fullback gave every indication yesterday he didn't plan on leaving.Canberra is fighting to... |
| Holmes sets goal to kickstart the Brumbies' season ACT Brumbies flyhalf Zack Holmes has put his hand up to fill Matt Giteau's goalkicking shoes. Holmes is locked in a six-way battle for the Brumbies' goalkicking role this Super Rugby... |
| Wade and Haddin could join forces Matthew Wade's hot start to his international career could see him and senior wicketkeeper Brad Haddin both play in the same team during the tri-series.In what would be an unusual but not... |
| It's just not cricket in TV war with NRL Cricket Australia and the NRL are set to go to war over Channel Nine's Friday night prime-time slot for March 2.Channel Nine is yet to decide whether to air the round one NRL match between the... |
| Paronella Park voted one of Australia's top three wedding venues "Located 120km south of Cairns, Paronella Park is a little known multi-award winning reserve filled with abundant rainforest and magnificent... |
| Canberra's stars all set to shine in Albury trial Canberra coach David Furner will today name his strongest available squad, including the Raiders' four All Stars representatives, for the club's opening trial match against Melbourne in... |
| Sale set to revive Cairns Wildlife Safari Reserve at Koah Tourism Kuranda executive officer Marc Sleeman said the park was an asset to Koah and the region and any injection of money to bring it up to an operating level would be... |
| Paediatrician returns to Cairns to answer prayers of parents A FOUR-month waiting list for children with behavioural problems to see a specialist in Cairns is hoped to be slashed with a second specialised paediatrician starting this... |
| Oregon Coast Brewery Wins Australian Awards Covering 180 miles of Oregon coast travel: Astoria, Seaside, Cannon Beach, Manzanita, Nehalem, Wheeler, Rockaway, Garibaldi, Tillamook, Oceanside, Pacific City, Lincoln City, Depoe Bay, Newport,... |
| Brown signs up for more Aussie TV Former Spice Girl Melanie Brown has boosted her Australian TV career after signing up to present the country's version of Dancing With The Stars. The singer moved to Los Angeles and took part... |
| Australia rolling out compulsory full-body airport scans Source: Reuters Full-body scanning will soon be introduced as a compulsory security measure at all of Australia's international airports. New laws being introduced into Federal Parliament this... |
| Qantas threatens Jetstar's future during parliamentary hearing Qantas defends itself after downgrade Qantas is threatening that it may have to sell its budget subsidiary Jetstar if the Australian government passes laws aiming to keep local jobs. The... |
| Canberra scuttling solar 'flagships': Greens THE Greens have accused the government of creating a solar energy scheme that was ''designed to fail'' after it emerged that two major solar projects set to receive $750 million... |
| Australia key for food price stability AUSTRALIA, as a world agricultural leader, must do more to help protect farmers in developing countries from aggressive foreign investors, according to international economist and World Food Prize... |
| Dairy suffers while govt 'dithers': ADF AUSTRALIAN Dairy Farmers (ADF) President Chris Griffin has expressed his disappointment in the Government's responses to the Senate Economics References Committee's 2011 final report of the... |
| AACo's 'green' abattoir punt THE success of the Australian Agricultural Company's (AACo) profitability climb in the next two years could be heavily dependent on government support for its new high-tech meatworks in... |
| Tesco dumps 'green' label UK SUPERMARKET giant Tesco will no longer feature a carbon reduction label, which the chain launched to great fanfare four years ago.Tesco was featuring the Carbon Trust's carbon reduction label... |
| Wirrulla farmers ready for love BACKING the popularity of Farmer Wants a Wife, single blokes from the Eyre Peninsula are stepping-up their search for love through the inaugural Wirrulla Wants a Wife event on the March long weekend.... |
| Padthaway woman national finalist A MIXED farm enterprise owner from Padthaway has been selected from a strong field of entrants as one of two South Australian finalists for the national 2012 RIRDC Rural Women's Award.The... |
| Locust numbers low but more flagged for Feb LOCUST population density remained low throughout western Queensland, New South Wales, and in northern Victoria during January. A localised infestation of nymphs has developed in the... |
| Fisher: Australia has a few lessons for Canada about dealing with China CANBERRA, Australia -- Canadians are about to discover that Prime Minister Stephen Harper has caught China fever.The prime minister arrives Tuesday in Beijing to shout that Canada is open for... |
| $A up on US data The Australian dollar is slightly higher, as it continues to trade on strong US data. At 0700 AEDT on Tuesday, the Australian dollar was trading at 107.32 US cents, up from 107.25 cents on Monday... |
| Gillard aims to time it right as voters back race equality Photo: Karleen Minney ALMOST two-thirds of voters support changing the constitution to recognise indigenous people as the first inhabitants of the land but the Prime Minister has warned the proposed... |
| Did he or didn't he? Rudd denies asking powerbroker for help in hostile state Australia's Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has been accused of meeting a factional power broker to explore ways to win support from South Australian... |
| Health funds told to drop planned rises in premiums Photo: AFR IN SWEEPING moves to rein in health insurance premium rises, the Gillard government has ordered two-thirds of funds to revise planned rises for this year. The Health Minister, Tanya... |
| Lift the dole, backbenchers urge caucus Photo: Erin Jonasson LIFTING the dole should be a key focus of the Gillard government this year, backbenchers have told the first regular caucus meeting of 2012. New South Wales MP Janelle Saffin... |
| Psychology pops up as Brown decries PM critics as sexist Photo: Alex Ellinghausen PESKY thing, the subconscious. One minute you're looking at a Prime Minister for a hint of vision or leadership or whatever it is a Prime Minister is expected to... |
| Coalition's Nauru costings linked to caterer A man sits inside the Nauru off shore processing centre in 2007 ... The opposition immigration spokesman, Scott Morrison, has claimed Nauru can be reopened and run for a third of the Immigration... |
| Aussie dollar still high on US data At 6.30am today, the local unit was trading at 107.29 US cents, up from 107.25 yesterday afternoon.The Australian dollar hit a six-month high of 107.95 US cents over the weekend, as global markets... |
| Australia's painful journey towards indigenous rights Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra, founded 40 years ago, did not seem to me racist or wild.I assert this though I am not an admirer of Abbott's. The idea of his winning the prime ministership... |
