31 Jul 08 | John Stewart's departure as chief executive of National Australia Bank is not a "scalp", Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner says.
31 Jul 08 | Australia's petrol commissioner Pat Walker has resigned for personal reasons and is returning to Perth, the federal government has announced.
31 Jul 08 | Doctors say employees who buy fake sick notes from a website supposedly set up by Aussie backpackers could be committing fraud.
31 Jul 08 | Man on trial for deliberately infecting two with HIV and attempting to infect 11 more is found guilty on a majority of counts.
31 Jul 08 | Veterans Affairs slammed over handling of the case of an Australian soldier who killed himself after serving in Afghanistan.
31 Jul 08 | Is there anybody out there? Space watchers in the ACT certainly think so.
31 Jul 08 | Consumers spent just over $20 billion in June, to post retail's weakest growth in six years.
31 Jul 08 | Multiple couples sharing houses in Canberra amid skyrocketing rental prices.
31 Jul 08 | Queanbeyan nursing home resident allegedly left untreated with a broken pelvis and pneumonia for up to two weeks.
31 Jul 08 | Rents could jump a further 10 per cent this year because of the worsening housing shortfall, the nation's biggest bank has warned.
31 Jul 08 | ACT Health Minister Katy Gallagher says the Government will eventually ban smoking in cars carrying children, but is first examining similar laws in other states.
NSW announced yesterday $250 on-the-...
31 Jul 08 | Sydney forward Ryan O'Keefe believes the Swans' clash with the Western Bulldogs at Manuka Oval this Sunday will be a thriller.
31 Jul 08 | Todd Carney's future at Canberra will become clearer today when he is expected to respond to the club's five-point rehabilitation plan.
31 Jul 08 | Covert crack troops that served in Vietnam finally recognised after 39 years.
31 Jul 08 | The ACT Government has caved in to the National Capital Authority over plans to develop Molonglo on Canberra's outskirts.
31 Jul 08 | Justice Robert French, Chief Justice designate of Australia, is one of the nation's funniest public speakers, though he can be as po-faced as the best of them.
Perhaps the biggest distinction from ...
31 Jul 08 | New Chief Justice of the High Court is fair, funny, a Fremantle Dockers fan and a notable speaker on a range of legal issues.
31 Jul 08 | Rising sea levels and the disappearance of an ancient, vast freshwater lake in the Murray River basin may explain why Australia's crimson rosellas developed different regional colours.
New research b...
31 Jul 08 | The collapse of the Doha round of international trade talks was a body blow to the world economy, but Australia should try to salvage something from the process, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said yesterd...
31 Jul 08 | The High Court has reserved its decision on a case involving mining giant BHP Billiton and Fortescue Metals. Billions of dollars are at stake, with BHP adamant Fortescue should not be able to access i...