SYDNEY (AAP) - March 18 - Vietnamese migrant Loan earns a miserly $3 per hour sewing garments from her Melbourne home, in what unions describe as "sweatshop-like" conditions.

SYDNEY (AAP) - March 18 - A man will spend at least two years in jail for leaving a nighclubber needing 80 stitches and unable to smile after glassing him in the face, severing arteries, veins and

SYDNEY (AAP) - March 18 - Federal police remain in control of the immigration detention centre on Christmas Island.

SYDNEY (AAP) - March 18 - Luke Hodge's prospects of captaining Hawthorn in round one of the AFL have improved after a promising hitout on Friday.

SYDNEY (AAP) - March 18 - Six teenagers face serious assault charges after an attack on an intellectually disabled youth.

SYDNEY (AAP) - March 17 - First a wedding gift, then the present of his presence.

SYDNEY (AAP) - March 17 - Home Affairs Minister Brendan O'Connor has described a string of attempted bombings in Jakarta in the past three days as a worrying trend after police disarmed a fourth de

SYDNEY (AAP) - March 17 - A pod of about 30 whales have become stranded at Bruny Island, south of Hobart, wildlife authorities say.

SYDNEY (AAP) - March 17 - Embattled AFL player manager Ricky Nixon has been found to be dishonest, unprofessional and lacking in integrity.

SYDNEY (AAP) - March 17 - St Kilda captain Nick Riewoldt believes this AFL season looms as the biggest mental challenge the Saints have faced in his time.