(AA) - Bearing bloodied crucifixes and photos of murdered children, hundreds of protesters have gathered in Sydney to demand the Australian government helps persecuted Christians in Iraq.

(AAP) - A bulked-up Danny Green will be out to repay his disillusioned fans when he defends his IBO cruiserweight world title against American BJ Flores in Perth on Wednesday
night.

Police have arrested an 18-year-old local man in relation to the murder of three
family members in Kapunda, South Australia.

A bulked-up Danny Green will be out to repay his disillusioned fans when he defends
his IBO cruiserweight world title against American BJ Flores in Perth on Wednesday
night.

Federal Labor will this week support a motion requiring all MPs and senators to seek
their constituents' views on same-sex marriage.

Bearing bloodied crucifixes and photos of murdered children, hundreds of protesters
have gathered in Sydney to demand the Australian government helps persecuted

Victorian Premier John Brumby has promised free school camps for every year nine
student as part of a broad plan to boost the prospects of impressionable teenagers.

Aboriginal rights campaigner, author and poet Roberta "Bobbi" Sykes has died at the
age of 67.
The Harvard University graduate died at the weekend, the NSW Aboriginal Land Council

A man has been charged with multiple counts of rape over an alleged incident
involving two Collingwood footballers on the night they won the AFL premiership.

A man who has committed suicide in immigration detention was twice rejected for
asylum in Australia and facing deportation back to Iraq, Immigration Minister Chris
Bowen says.