SYDNEY (AAP) - 27 Sept - Power industry emissions would drop by nine per cent while natural gas generation would rise by 40 per cent under the government's carbon pricing scheme, a new study sugges

SYDNEY (AAP) - 27 Sept - The owner of the Repco car parts business has sold one third of its ownership to an American car parts company.

SYDNEY (AAP) - 27 Sept - A number of young Hobart residents have spent time in hospital after drinking a brew made from a common, poisonous flower, police say.

SYDNEY (AAP) - 27 Sept - Federal Independent MP Rob Oakeshott says he's "kissed and made up" with Tony Abbott, seven months after suspending regular meetings with the opposition leader.

SYDNEY (AAP) - 27 Sept - Higher than permitted mercury vapour levels have been detected around a Sydney Orica plant, just weeks after residents near its Newcastle plant were exposed to hexavalent c

SYDNEY (AAP) - 27 Sept - The industry employers' organisation believes the GST should be increased to finance the removal of inefficient taxes.

SYDNEY (AAP) - 27 Sept - Motorists battling to get to work on Melbourne's congested freeways may soon have to contend with larger trucks.

SYDNEY (AAP) - 27 Sept - Farmers are preparing for the worst mouse plague "in living memory" over the spring and summer months, Australia's peak grains body says.

SYDNEY (AAP) - While the talk all week was of the flesh that would be on parade, it was Rouba Houli who turned heads on the Brownlow Medal blue carpet with her modest hijab.

SYDNEY (AAP) - The father of In Vitro Fertilisation, Carl Wood, has died.
Professor Wood had endured Alzheimer's disease since 2004 and died last Friday at a nursing home. He was 82.