Carlton AFL player charged with assault

A CARLTON AFL player charged with assaulting a fan will continue playing while the case proceeds. SIMON White is with the club in Fremantle, where he has been named in Carlton's team for its Thursday night AFL game. White allegedly punched...

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UK AG won't challenge Harris jail sentence

British government won't challenge the sentence handed down to convicted paedophile Rolf Harris. Source: AAP CONVICTED paedophile Rolf Harris will not see his jail term challenged by the British government's chief legal adviser for being...

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Tax, security info at cyber attack risk

TAX and social security records and national security information remains vulnerable to cyber attacks, a new report shows. AN auditor-general review of seven major government agencies found that none complied with the required cyber security...

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Qld bikies can fill out 'resignation' form

QUEENSLAND bikies and their associates can fill out a form to declare they are no longer part of an outlaw group. THE Queensland Police Service website has a questionnaire asking people to describe the steps they have taken to "disassociate"....

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Senator breaks into song during farewell

Senator Ursula Stephens has burst into song during her valedictory speech. Source: AAP LEAVING parliament may be a blessing in disguise for Labor Senator Ursula Stephens, who looks prepped to shine on another stage - in showbiz. THE Irish-born...

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Bishop restates support for Fiji election

FOREIGN Minister Julie Bishop has been updated on Fiji's progress towards its first democratic elections in nearly a decade. FIJI has promised to hold elections on September 17, the first since the country's leader Commodore Frank Bainimarama...

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Peter Greste jailed for 7 years in Egypt

Tony Abbott has lobbied Egypt's new president for the release of journalist Peter Greste (pic). Source: AAP AUSTRALIAN journalist Peter Greste and his Al Jazeera colleagues accused of aiding the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood have been jailed...

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Vic 'palm reader' jailed for assaults

A VICTORIAN man who used an offer to read women's palms as a ruse to sexually assault them while travelling on a train has been jailed for at least 10 months. AJAY Chopra, 41, had pleaded guilty to all five charges relating to the assaults on...

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Salvos sorry for abuse 'greatest failure'

The Salvation Army will again give evidence at the child sex abuse royal commission in Sydney. Source: AAP THE Salvation Army says it is profoundly sorry for the abuse suffered by children in its care, and events revealed by the royal commission...

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Labor, coalition in cost of living battle

Prime Minister Tony Abbott will personally reintroduce a bill to axe the carbon tax. Source: AAP LABOR and the coalition have traded blows over cost-of-living pressures as the government reintroduced its carbon tax repeal bills. THE government...

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GG visits Ord irrigation scheme

Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove has toured the Ord irrigation scheme near Kununurra. Source: AAP GOVERNOR-GENERAL Sir Peter Cosgrove is hoping to shine a light on economic opportunities in agriculture and progress being made on indigenous...

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Newman says ALP wrong on TAFE fee rises

Queensland Premier Campbell Newman says TAFE is being re-focused so it meets the needs of employers. Source: AAP QUEENSLAND'S premier has accused the opposition of playing Nostradamus over TAFE fee increases. LITERACY and numeracy fees...

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Qld premier coy on chief justice pick

QUEENSLAND'S premier has held his first media conference in five days, but was coy when questioned about his government's controversial selection of Tim Carmody as the state's new chief justice. SINCE Campbell Newman last stood before reporters,...

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Abbott seeks al-Sisi talks over Greste

Julie Bishop says the government is lobbying in Egypt for the release of journalist Peter Greste. Source: AAP TONY Abbott is attempting to contact Egypt's new president Abdul Fattah al-Sisi to lobby for the release of Australian journalist...

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Pregnant woman airlifted to hospital

A PREGNANT woman has suffered serious head injuries after a car crashed into a northwest Sydney house, also injuring a teenage girl and another woman. THE 25-year-old, who is four months pregnant, has been airlifted to Westmead Hospital with...

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Hendra virus kills NSW horse

Hendra virus has killed a horse in northern NSW, causing authorities to quarantine a property. Source: AAP HENDRA virus has killed a horse in northern NSW, causing authorities to quarantine a property as they run tests on its stablemates...

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Another Tamil man sets himself on fire

ANOTHER Tamil man has set himself alight, the latest in a spate of self-immolation cases involving asylum seekers who fear being sent back to Sri Lanka. THE 40-year-old man splashed himself with petrol and ignited it, but his housemates intervened...

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Royals defend apartment spending

Renovations of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's apartment will cost UK taxpayers STG4 million. Source: AAP THE British royal family has defended spending a seven-figure sum refurbishing the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's Kensington Palace...

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WA Police charge former hostel warden

CHILD abuse squad detectives have charged a 69-year-old West Australian man, who is currently in prison, with two additional charges relating to historic child sex offences. POLICE allege the offences occurred between 1975 and 1988 when the offender...

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Thai govt to mediate in Aussie's case

THAILAND'S foreign ministry is pressing for a mediated settlement in a bid to end a legal conflict between the Royal Thai Navy and an Australian journalist who faces a possible lengthy jail term over defamation charges. ALAN Morison, originally...

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Proudest mum sees top five graduate

SHE just had to be the proudest mother in the country. FIVE of her own graduating on the same day, and they were five of the smartest, happiest and furriest graduates you will ever see. Overjoyed mum Olwyn watched on as her top five; Rosie,...

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PM not concerned about ministers' safety

PM Tony Abbott says he's not concerned about the safety of his ministers during public protests. Source: AAP THE government isn't concerned about the safety of its members, despite reports four ministers have had their security detail beefed-up,...

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Labor, coalition fight for rural affection

IF you believe Labor, they are the party for farmers and rural Australia. IF you believe the government, that's a complete joke. Parliament took a country tone on Thursday when Labor's agriculture spokesman Joel Fitzgibbon brought on debate...

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Carr dishes up conundrum for NSW govt

EIGHT years after ending his reign over NSW, Bob Carr is still giving the state Liberals a headache. THIS time, he's forced Premier Mike Baird to reconvene a "slimmed-down" joint sitting of parliament. The procedure is so the former premier...

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Ferry fraudster Smith 'had no choice'

A FORMER Sydney Ferries boss who racked up more than $200,000 on the company credit card says he felt he had no choice because he couldn't tell his emotionally fragile wife how desperate the family's financial situation had become. FORMER naval...

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Psychiatric drugs soar among Aussie kids

ADHD medication-use in Australia has jumped 35 per cent in a four-year period. Source: AAP THE use of powerful psychiatric drugs is soaring among Australian children as young as 10, research shows. THE number of prescriptions for antipsychotic...

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ANAO says Customs missing most contraband

CLOSE to half a million prohibited items could have evaded Customs mail screening in 2012-13, allowing guns, drugs and quarantine risk items into the community. THE Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) says Customs' seizure of 67,123 prohibited...

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Burned Ukrainian boy jubilant he can walk

IHOR Lakatosh struggles to describe his life before surgery, when his severe burns went untreated for years in his native Ukraine, leaving him with one arm fused to his body, unable to walk and abandoned by his mother. THE 11-year-old boy, however,...

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Australia 'on notice' to protect reef

Leonardo DiCaprio has spoken of the devastation he's witnessed on the Great Barrier Reef. Source: AAP THE World Heritage Committee has given Australia seven months to prove it is protecting the Great Barrier Reef or risk having the reef listed...

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Slipper says he's been vindicated

James Ashby says he is ditching his case against former parliamentary Speaker Peter Slipper (pic). Source: AAP FORMER house of representatives speaker Peter Slipper says sexual harassment claims by a former staff member caused enormous personal...

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Bitcoin faces biggest threat yet

THE bitcoin digital currency system is in danger of losing its credibility as an independent payment system because of the growing power of a group that runs some of the computers behind it. IN recent weeks, a British-based "mining pool" called...

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Chris Martin serenades fans in Sydney park

Chris Martin has serenaded hundreds of fans in a small inner-western Sydney park. Source: AAP CHRIS Martin has serenaded hundreds of fans in a small inner-western Sydney park. THE fans had spent most of Tuesday waiting in Newtown for...

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Most trusted also the most abused

New figures show assaults on Australia's paramedics are set to reach record levels in 2014. Source: AAP THEY have retained their status as Australia's most trusted professionals. BUT paramedics are still among the most attacked and abused...

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French train workers clash with police

FRENCH riot police have fired tear gas at striking train workers, who hurled bottles and blocked traffic in anger over a bill to reform the state-run railway system. A WEEK-LONG strike by French rail workers is heating up as the draft law goes...

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WA basketballer socks it to sarcoma

ADAM Deans thought he was a bit sore from playing football. BUT when the fit 16-year-old broke his femur simply walking down the stairs in 2005, doctors biopsied his leg to discover the bone had been weakened by osteosarcoma, a rare and aggressive...

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Ambulance Vic named in ATSB death report

A MAN who died after being crushed by a crane on a cargo ship lay injured while an ambulance trying to reach him was locked out of the port. AMBULANCE Victoria had neglected to train officers in how to open gates at Portland - a massive multi-berth...

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NSW budget to return to surplus sooner

The Baird government is set to deliver a budget surplus one year earlier than previously predicted. Source: AAP JUST two months into the job, Treasurer Andrew Constance is set to announce NSW's finances are heading toward surplus earlier...

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Lib pair making mischief in the Senate

Senator Cory Bernardi has refused to vote with the government in protest against the deficit levy. Source: AAP REBEL Liberals Ian Macdonald and Cory Bernardi are unbending in their plans to frustrate some of their government's key budget...

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Get out of Iraq now, warns Bishop

Australia ready to help with humanitarian crisis in Iraq, but no troops envisaged says Julie Bishop. Source: AAP AUSTRALIANS have been told to leave Iraq immediately by Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, who has described the escalating crisis...

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Firies cancer law not ruled out: Vic govt

Volunteer firefighters rally in Melbourne for access to compensation for cancer contracted at work. Source: AAP THE Victorian government says it hasn't ruled out changing the way firefighters access cancer compensation as hundreds rallied...

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Afghan bomb kills 11 amid vote fraud claim

Afghans have braved threats of violence and searing heat to vote in the presidential elections. Source: AAP A ROADSIDE bomb killed 11 people including five election workers in northern Afghanistan, officials said Sunday, as a prolonged vote...

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Nicole Kidman for top Shanghai honour

Nicole Kidman is to be honoured at the Shanghai International Film Festival in China. Source: AAP NICOLE Kidman is to be honoured with an outstanding contribution award at the Shanghai International Film Festival in China. HUGH Grant...

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Vic union rejects sabotage claim

The CFMEU has rejected claims a fire at a Grocon building site in Melbourne was an act of sabotage. Source: AAP THE CFMEU has rejected a claim of sabotage over a deliberately lit fire at a Grocon building site in Melbourne, saying it is a...

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Israel says Palestinians kidnapped teens

Israeli security forces are combing the West Bank in search of three missing teenagers. Source: AAP THREE Israeli teenagers, one of them also a US citizen, have been kidnapped in the occupied West Bank, presumably by Palestinians, the army...

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Syria TV says 30 killed in blast near Iraq

A BOMB attack targeting a weapons bazaar in eastern Syria close to the Iraqi border has killed 30 "terrorists", state television reports. "A big explosion hits a terrorist arms market in Mayadeen, killing 30 terrorists and wounding dozens of...

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Snow falls in Vic alpine peaks

Snow has begun falling on Victoria's alpine peaks after a slow start to the season. Source: AAP AFTER a slow start to the season, snow has finally begun falling on Victoria's alpine peaks. AT Mt Hotham, 3cm of snow had fallen since Saturday...

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US marshals to auction seized bitcoins

US authorities will auction off $US18 million in Bitcoins they seized from Silk Road. Source: AAP THE US Marshals Service says it will auction about $US18 million in bitcoins seized last northern autumn from Silk Road, a website that was...

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Former POW Bergdahl back in US

A defence official says US soldier Bowe Bergdahl is due to arrive at a Texas facility on Friday. Source: AAP THE US soldier freed in a controversial swap with the Afghan Taliban has arrived back in the United States, his latest step in a...

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