A Four Corners investigation has revealed that two people smugglers are being considered for resettlement in Australia. The program secretly filmed the men discussing their people smuggling operations. Both men claim to have refugee status from the U...
Labor has lost its election-winning lead with the latest Newspoll showing the ALP and the Coalition 50-50. A Nielsen poll published at the weekend showed the Coalition ahead on the two-party preferred basis. Today's poll shows primary support for Ton...
Cloud crossing Victoria and southern New South Wales is producing squally showers and storms. A weak trough extending through the Northern Territory in Queensland may cause rain over the tropics and a high in the west is keeping much of WA and the in...
The US President Barack Obama has welcomed the latest economic growth figures, but he says more action is needed to get unemployed Americans back to work. The US economy grew 2.4 percent in the second quarter of this year, but that's a slower pace th...
More than 300,000 extra premises will be connected to the National Broadband Network than originally planned. NBN coverage maps to be unveiled today by the Federal Government show the network will provide fibre optic coverage to 93 per cent of reside...
The Opposition says the information leaks that have plagued the Government are a sign of chaos at the top. Opposition finance spokesman Andrew Robb has seized on Treasurer Wayne Swan's admission the Government can't stop the leaks. We can't control l...
The Gillard Government's been rocked by more damaging internal leaks. Last night, Channel Nine reported that Julia Gillard lobbied in Cabinet against the Government's paid parental leave scheme and the size of pension increases. Ms Gillard says she d...
The White House says the leaking of confidential military documents poses a threat to national security. Those documents published on whistleblower site Wikileaks suggest Pakistani authorities helped the Taliban plan attacks on NATO. Pakistan's rejec...
And last night's Leaders Debate failed to produce a clear winner as both leaders stuck carefully to their campaign scripts. Julia Gillard tried to focus on industrial relations and creating an open dialogue on climate change. The Opposition leader To...
Patchy low cloud over the southeast trapped under a high is causing a few showers. Scattered cloud over coastal Queensland in onshore winds is also bringing showers. And wet weather will continue in Queensland and New South Wales tomorrow, brought on...
Regulators in the European Union say a stress test of 91 banks across the EU has found that the sector is in good financial health. The study measured the banks capacity to survive a severe recession or another sovereign debt crisis. And all the majo...
The Federal Opposition has accused the Government of showing contempt for Australia's national security. The ABC's been told the former prime minister Kevin Rudd sent his 31-year-old chief of staff to stand in for him at National Security Committee m...
The Federal Opposition says the Prime Minister must admit the Government's border protection policies are failing. Two boats carrying almost 90 people have arrived at Christmas Island over the past 24 hours. Prime Minister Julia Gillard insists she w...
And Julia Gillard has launched a fresh attack on Tony Abbott's industrial relations policy. Speaking at a union function in Melbourne overnight, she said Mr Abbott remained a strong advocate for stripping workers of their rights. But Mr Abbott yester...
And a man wearing red Speedos who confronted Tony Abbott in Melbourne yesterday has been exposed as a Labor campaign officer. Conrad French works in the ALP head office in Victoria with the state secretary and campaign director Nicholas Reece. It had...
