National News
9:46 AM AEST | Damaging winds wreaked havoc on the Illawarra at the weekend.
9:03 AM AEST | FATHER’S Day yesterday held a special significance
for Creswick’s Burns family.
8:44 AM AEST | Swallowing a single magnet would probably have been harmless. But Liljana King is lucky to be alive after ingesting three of them.
8:34 AM AEST | Downpour brings Bendigo's monthly rain average by Saturday morning.
8:26 AM AEST | Australians will know who will form government as early as today, after the three Independent MPs spent the weekend analysing the information they gleaned over the past fortnight of talks.
8:21 AM AEST | Wind gusts of up to 80km/h wreaked havoc during the
weekend around Maitland and the Hunter.
8:14 AM AEST | The rescue helicopter has located the three rafters and is preparing to winch them to safety.
7:44 AM AEST | It's taken six years, but Sony has at long last brought its e-reader range - in the form of the just-launched Sony Reader Touch ($299) and Pocket Editions ($229) - to Australia.
7:39 AM AEST | Thousands of litres of partially treated effluent has spilled into the Molonglo River as heavy rain inundated a sewerage system.
12:15 AM AEST | RESIDENTS across the central highlands have begun the clean-up after weekend floods.
12:14 AM AEST | LEXTON Plains Football League is standing by its decision to postpone its grand finals on Saturday.
12:00 AM AEST | HOMES have been flooded, roads cut and farms inundated as floodwaters turned large parts of the Ovens Valley into an inland sea yesterday.
At least 18 families sought refuge at Myrtleford’s
05 Sep 10 | The battle for John Della Bosca's upper house seat has come down to grandmother versus the machine - the ALP machine, that is.
05 Sep 10 | Complaints of intimidation, both verbal and in legal emails, to businesses in Sydney's The Rocks allegedly by suited men not from government departments in the past year have been the subject of a secret investigation by police.
05 Sep 10 | They are Graham Gene Potter and Malcolm Naden, two of the country's most wanted men.
05 Sep 10 | The NSW Art Gallery is perplexed by the story of a Norman Lindsay painting with mysterious police links.
05 Sep 10 | The Sydney-born Islamic cleric who called for the beheading of a Dutch anti-Muslim MP has been back in Australia for several months and preaching at an Islamic centre in Campbelltown in Sydney's south-west.
05 Sep 10 | Lisa Altman has spent enough time in hospitals with her young son Oscar to know every cent of funds raised by the Rebel Sport Run4Fun participants is truly needed.
05 Sep 10 | The bullet-riddled ''Welcome to Belanglo State Forest'' sign bearing the warning ''Please Be Careful'' is scratched with graffiti. Among the scribblings are: ''Ivan was here …'' and, more prophetically, ''Left some unfinished business''.
05 Sep 10 | Australia's school chaplaincy program faces a constitutional challenge in the High Court as opposition grows to having government funding paying for God's representatives in state schools.