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11:44 AM | ANZ Bank is to cut about 900 jobs as the company shrinks its Australian workforce to adjust to weak demand for financial services.   | Banks to deliver mortgage pain ...
Call for petrol commissioner's head
11:29 AM | The government should sack its petrol commissioner for failing to uncover a ''scandal'' in fuel pricing, according to independent senator Nick Xenophon.   | CommentsComments (1)
Why  men and women don't hear each other
10:51 AM | Clashing communication styles cause trouble but men and women can meet in the middle.
10:49 AM | Two of Australia’s top agricultural science positions will be axed by the Gillard government as part of a shake-up of the federal agriculture department, a Senate estimates hearing has been told.
10:45 AM | Veteran television journalist Peter Harvey is recovering in hospital after being attacked by two dogs in a park yesterday.
9:56 AM | Liberated women are confusing the hell out of men.
9:10 AM | Two separate private member's bills to legalise same-sex marriage will be introduced today in a historic move for the gay rights movement.
9:00 AM | TWO separate private member's bills to legalise same-sex marriage will be introduced today in a historic move for the gay rights movement.   | CommentsComments (10)
Tributes flow for pair killed in Namibia truck crash
8:55 AM | The mother of a young Australian woman who died in a crash in Namibia says her family was proud her daughter had "lived [life] to the full, and in a way that gave back to society".
One of modern pop's greatest voices falls silent but the echoes will last forever
3:00 AM | WITHOUT Whitney Houston we would not have had Mariah Carey or Beyonce. We would not have had Adele, who grew up a fan of Carey and Houston. And it's fair to say we would not have seen or heard a good portion of the singers who appeared in clubs, pubs and on television talent shows such as Australian Idol in the past decade.
Greens move to axe Medicare surcharge
3:00 AM | Greens health push has potential to undermine the government's $2.4 billion savings measure.
Rudd should go: ex-Labor minister
3:00 AM | Former Labor minister Con Sciacca says Kevin Rudd can't be a team player.
Abbott takes a new surplus tack
3:00 AM | Opposition Leader produces yet another Coalition position on its plans for a budget surplus.
Say it with flowers but don't expect everything to be rosy
3:00 AM | Australian flower crops, struggling to bloom through a dark and damp summer, are under threat this Valentine's Day from foreign imports.
Breastfed babies have better chance of avoiding obesity
3:00 AM | EXERCISE and a healthy diet are known to prevent childhood obesity, but a study has found breastfeeding may also help prevent infants from becoming overweight adolescents.
Buyers still wary as clearance rate hovers above 50%
3:00 AM | ALMOST half the properties listed for auction in Sydney at the weekend failed to sell, reflecting the fragile confidence of the market.
3:00 AM | HIS royal highness Prince Alan Djamirze of Circassia is not amused.
3:00 AM | AN OFF-DUTY security guard has been charged with manslaughter for his role in a brawl that ended with a young reveller drowning in Darling Harbour early yesterday.
3:00 AM | POLICE phoned 13 parents on Saturday night and asked them to collect their children, many of whom had been found wandering about the city drunk or drug-affected.
3:00 AM | An electrical storm knocked out a large section of the Western and Blue Mountains railway lines yesterday, delaying hundreds of passengers.
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