The federal government has announced all analog television signals in regional
Victoria will be switched off from May 2011.

West Australian Premier Colin Barnett says he believes several states are prepared
to pull out of the national health reform agreement.

Paul Keating says he's chalked one up for the battler who's been wrongly booked.
A magistrate has dismissed a traffic infringement against the former prime minister,

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has challenged the coalition to be more constructive as
she prepares to face her first serious test in a bitterly divided parliament.

North Queensland midfielder Ufuk Talay has received a two-match suspension for an
off-the-ball incident during the Fury's A-League game against Wellington on Friday
night.

As if the threat of terrorism, shoddy construction or dengue fever wasn't enough,
athletes and visitors to the Commonwealth Games in Delhi now have another

A high-speed rail network linking Australia's major cities isn't viable because they
are too far apart or don't have the population to justify the cost, departmental

Wests Tigers halfback Robert Lui will vigorously defend nine charges, including one
of using a "choke" on his pregnant girlfriend and another of holding her against her
will.

Australia has moved closer to putting a price on carbon, with the government
revealing the makeup of a new climate committee amid accusations of secrecy and

Two members of an outlaw motorcycle gang have been charged over the shooting of a
rival gang member in western Sydney last year.