SYDNEY (AAP) - 12 Sept - Hawthorn's Jordan Lewis is free to play in Friday's AFL semi-final against Sydney after his match-day report was thrown out by the match review panel.

SYDNEY (AAP) - 12 Sept - Fire crews are fighting 10 bushfires across Queensland, including one burning at the rear of some houses in Brisbane's north-west and seven around the Townsville area.

SYDNEY (AAP) - 12 Sept - The federal opposition has expressed delight that NSW police have launched a "full-blooded" investigation into the Health Services Union (HSU).

SYDNEY (AAP) - 12 Sept - The former wife of slain gangster Carl Williams knew little of her husband's involvement in drugs and murder, and what she did know she ignored, a court has been told.

SYDNEY (AAP) - 12 Sept - Late billionaire Richard Pratt told his mistress to have sex with his bodyguard, saying the former mercenary might blackmail him, a Sydney court has been told.

SYDNEY (AAP) - 12 Sept - Prime Minister Julia Gillard has stared down concerns within the Labor Party over the government's asylum-seeker plans and is now turning her attention to gaining coalition

Sydney (AAP) - 11 Sept - Melbourne earned a week off and sent Newcastle packing with a tradesman-like 18-8 victory in Sunday's NRL qualifying final at AAMI Park.

Sydney (AAP) - 11 Sept - Ford driver Mikko Hirvonen closed the gap on World Rally Championship leader Sebastien Loeb to just 15 points with victory in Rally Australia on the NSW Coffs Coast on Sund

Sydney (AAP) - 11 Sept - Former prime minister John Howard says the terrorism attacks in the US and Bali a decade ago lifted the importance of national security with Australians.

Sydney (AAP) - 11 Sept - St Kilda players Steven Baker and Robert Eddy have denied they retired, forcing the AFL club to make an embarrassing clarification about their departures.