Aus-China trade deal a 'game changer'
Australia and China sealed a landmark trade deal that abolishes tariffs in the lucrative resources and agricultural sectors.
Australia loses last car manufacturer
Australia's car industry to grind to a complete halt when Toyota exits in 2017.
Australia braces for extreme fire weather
Victoria and neighbouring South Australia state are bracing for “severe to extreme heatwave conditions”.
Baby dead, 8 missing in refugee boat sinking
A baby died and eight people were missing after a people-smuggling boat carrying 97 sunk in remote seas, Australian officials have said.
‘My son was shot after 73 seconds’
The mother of a 15-year-old boy who was shot five times by Australian police has approached the United Nations for help.
Major floods hammer northern Australia
Two people were missing and the body of a third was recovered from raging floodwaters as severe storms pounded northeastern Australia.
Rescue a miracle, says yachtsman
A French yachtsman has described his dramatic rescue from a life-raft adrift for three days as a “second chance at life”.
Insulin breakthrough could see end to jabs
Breakthrough research mapping how insulin works at a molecular level could lead to new diabetes treatments, say scientists.
Oz braces for ‘worst ever’ fire danger
Australians were bracing for what officials warned could be the worst fire danger day ever seen, as police searched for some 100 people still missing.
Police fear deaths in Tasmania fires
Police were combing devastated towns for 100 people missing after wildfires tore through the Australian island state of Tasmania.
Firework funeral: pets sent off with a bang
Gypsy's final moment was marked by a red love-heart firework slowly fading in the smoky sky.
On the trail with Sydney’s snake hunter
Reptile hunter Rob Ambrose thinks snakes, even the most toxic and defensive types, get a bad rap.
Aussie study tugs at heart strings
Do humans really wear their hearts on their sleeve? An ambitious Australian neuroscience project is hoping to find out.
Sea rise threatens ‘paradise’ Down Under
Australia’s Old Bar has been in the grip of an unprecedented storm period, in terms of both frequency and strength.
Another blow for BlackBerry
Australian airline Qantas is ditching BlackBerry for Apple's iPhone and rolling out in-flight iPad entertainment streaming.
Australia probes people-smuggling ring
Australia said it may revoke the visas of an alleged people-smuggling kingpin and six of his associates.
Teens deaths stoking race tensions
Two Aboriginal teenagers were shot by police in Sydney after mounting a crowded footpath in a stolen car and hitting a bystander.
Rising Pacific linked to climate change
A new chronological study has revealed a major jump in sea levels around 1880 after 6,000 years of relative stability.
Sudanese refugees find unlikely home in rural Oz
A rural Australian gold mining and farming town seems an unlikely home for refugees fleeing decades of conflict in Sudan.
Calls for unity ahead of Oz poll
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Sunday she was “very confident” of surviving a leadership challenge from Kevin Rudd.
Rising floodwaters force mass evacuation
Thousands of Australians were forced to abandon their homes as record flooding threatened to engulf areas devastated by wild weather last year.
Qantas planes set to fly again
Qantas will resume operations on Monday after industrial action that affected more than 68 000 passengers.
Joke’s on you, Mr Schmidt
When a Swedish voice came down the line informing him he had a “very important call”, Australia's newest Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt assumed it was an elaborate joke.
Inmates bury themselves at Oz centre
Inmates at Australia’s Christmas Island immigration centre buried themselves in shallow graves in a symbolic gesture.
Danger heats up for Aussie platypus
Global warming could shrink the habitat of Australia's duck-billed platypus by a third, researchers have warned.