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 | 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 steady decline in interest rates has caught out some investors who find their money is worth less than before.
For Diane Brentnall, a self-funded retiree, yesterday's interest rate cut has...
1:00 AM AEDT | THE former Treasurer Peter Costello has missed the final week of Parliament to dedicate time to his second job as a member of the World Bank's anti-corruption board.
Mr Costello is in Washingt...
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 | 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 | THREE councils involved in development scandals received the highest number of complaints during the past financial year, according to the Department of Local Government's annual report.
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 | Steam from deep underground could provide the nation's power for the next 500 years, writes Rick Feneley.
1:00 AM AEDT | I t is that time of year when tinsel and baubles appear in the shops and blow-up Santas stand outside waving you in to view the enticing displays. More importantly, it is that time when children start...
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 | WAITING times for public dental services could become even longer as a Senate impasse shows no sign of ending.
1:00 AM AEDT | LABOR'S unlucky treasurer, the Whitlam government minister Frank Crean, has died at age 92.
Mr Crean, who also served as deputy prime minister, was last night described by the Prime Minister, ...
1:00 AM AEDT | TRAIN commuters were delayed yesterday when a signal box at Granville was repaired.
1:00 AM AEDT | LABOR and Coalition senators have co-operated again to block attempts to rein in promotion of three big triggers of ills in the community - gambling, alcohol and junk food.