Leading the news this morning. Three people have died in an overnight house fire in Melbourne's southeast. It's believed they are a woman and two children. Neighbors say they tried to break into the house at Clayton South, but shutters prevented them...
Leading the news this morning. The Prime Minister has given a feisty speech to the leaders of the mining industry, telling them she intends to share the benefits of the Boom. Julia Gillard has told at the Minerals Council's annual dinner the Governme...
To finance. And Austrlia looks to benefit from the new Chinese stimulus package. Reports from China say Beijing is * multibillion plan to make up for dropping exports and electricity usage. Austalian trade minister Qude Anverson has been holding talk...
Leading the news this morning. The former British prime minister Tony Blair says he made through strategic decision not deffect the Murdoch press when he was in office. Mr. Blair has told the Eleventh inquiry politicians have no choice but to court m...
Here we start with the developing story this morning, that is the imminent collapse of the big engineering services firm, the hasty group with more than 2,000 jobs to be affected, particularly in states of New South Wales and Victoria, it's been reve...
Now it's time for business news, and when the markets in Euro closed a couple of hours ago, London's FUTS' 100 was up slightly, as were the Dex and Euro. In the US, trading comes close shortly and Dow Jones and SP 500 were both down. The Australian d...
Let's take a look at the satellite, a low pressure system is sending strong cold winds and heavy rains into southeast Australian, with snow falling in the Yalps, a low pressure trough is generating areas of rain in northeast New South Wales and easte...
Leading the news this morning, several Federal politicians are very concerned the crossbencher MP Craig Thomson is being pushed to breaking point, Mr.Thomson has lashed out the unrelenting focus on allegations he misused union funds, he's made a publ...
Leading the news this morning, there are new fears EU leaders meeting in Brussels at the moment won't reach a deal on measures to tackle the region's deepening economic crisis, European shares and the Euro both fell sharply overnight, after a former...
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development says the Eurozone crisis is the single biggest threat to the global economy.The OECD is forecasting economic contraction in the zone this year and only a weak growth next year.Chief economist...
Top stories today, three more shots have been fired from the house at the center of an ongoing siege in Melbourne's northwest, the man holding police at bay is understood to be 43-year-old, Christopher Dean Binse, a convicted prison escapee, authorit...
Australia and Afghanistan have just signed a strategic partnership from the sideline of the NATO Summit in Chicago. Prime Minister Julia Gillard says the 250-million-dollar agreement covers aid, development and trade. She says she hopes the summit wi...
Now time for the business news, and when the markets in Europe closed couple of hours ago, London's FTSE 100 was down 1.3%, and the Dax shed over 0.5%, in the US, trading comes to close shortly and the Dow and Jones is on 73 points while the SP 500 i...
Troughs are pushing clouds over southeast Australia and west Australia. While humid winds are generating low clouds along the Queensland coast. A close around the country. And Queensland will see showers along its east coast and northwest,with isolat...
Before the Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr has brushed aside a formal complaint from a man who launched a sexual harassment case against the speaker Peter Slipper. James Ashby's lawyers lodged a formal complaint to victimisation yesterday with the...
