Streets in Perth's CBD will be shut down for one weekend in October next year, when
the Queen and Commonwealth heads of state are expected to converge on the city.

Canberra Raiders and Australian rugby league star Joel Monaghan is under
investigation after a photo emerged showing him in a compromising position with a
dog.

The Greater Building Society on Thursday passed on in full this week's quarter of a
percentage point increase in the cash rate by the central bank.

Police have arrested a man allegedly involved in a fatal hit-and-run in Brisbane.
A 43-year-old man died in hospital several days after being hit by a motorbike while

The noose strangling the once mighty Snowy River has been loosened, freeing billions
of litres of water in a deluge not seen for more than four decades.

The world is approaching its first effective treatment for the usually lethal
secondary tumours generated by melanoma, and Australia is at the forefront of the
research effort.

Leaders of both the major parties are preparing to face off in their only free to
air television debate scheduled for the Victorian election campaign.

Boxer Paul Briggs was never fit to fight Danny Green when he was knocked out seconds
into their July IBO cruiserweight world title bout and deceived doctors, authorities

Rio Tinto Ltd chief executive Tom Albanese says speculation about the global supply
of metals peaking is "perhaps premature" given there remains an "absolutely

Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon has denied trying to get West Australian
Nationals Leader Brendon Grylls to lobby Premier Colin Barnett to sign up to a