The Australian government has released the name of the latest Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan.
Thousands of Australian sailors and civilian contractors have been exposed to asbestos because the navy uses long-banned parts, a report has found.
Sales of environmentally friendly petrol-electric hybrid vehicles are steadily increasing in Australia, new figures show.
The editor of a conservative Australian journal says he was "tricked" into publishing a hoaxed article about biotechnology scares written by a bogus author.
Eight people including four children remain in hospital after a car veered off the Great Ocean Road in the commercial heart of the resort town of Lorne.
The parents of a premature, five-day-old baby say they're horrified that a nurse dumped their son with a stranger after hospital staff failed to meet her at an airport on Christmas Eve.
A three-year-old boy is lucky to have survived a 10-metre cliff fall in Sydney's south with only minor injuries.
The recent allocation of aged care beds shows the industry is in crisis, the Aged Care Association of Australia says.
Australia's peak union body has called on employers to hold their nerve and not sack workers this year despite a slowing economy.
A woman was trapped under a yacht for more than 20 minutes while her friends clung for their lives to the capsized vessel outside Port Phillip Bay.
A 78-year-old man caught speeding at 170km/h on a narrow country road on New Year's Day told police he was a skilled race driver.
Melburnians made a tiny dent in water consumption last year, using 500 million litres less than in 2007.
The OECD's warning about the dangers of unlimited guarantees of bank deposits shows the government needs to fix the problem, shadow treasurer Julie Bishop says.
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