Independent MP Rob Oakeshott says the government needs to change the misconception of the national broadband network (NBN) always being a government-owned monopoly.

Surgeons are trying to save the arm of a toddler run over by a lawnmower.

The shipping companies responsible for Queensland's largest natural disaster have settled their final compensation claim, a court has been told.

A takeaway delivery driver who raped a woman after finding her asleep in her Sydney home has been jailed for at least 18 months.

The federal government's asylum seeker policy is in disarray after the High Court scuttled Prime Minister Julia Gillard's Malaysian people-swap deal and left all offshore processing in doubt.

Anti-carbon tax rallies that denigrate the prime minister are "Americanising" political debate in Australia, Julia Gillard has told a forum in Sydney's inner west.

King AFL ban stands as Tiger fight fails

Residents between the Gold Coast and Gladstone have been warned to brace for flash flooding and large hailstones as severe thunderstorms batter Queensland's south-east.

The federal government has slammed the Wikileaks website for publishing a US diplomatic cable that details 23 Australians believed to have links to Yemeni terrorism.

Anti-carbon tax rallies that denigrate the prime minister are "Americanising" political debate in Australia, Julia Gillard has told a forum in Sydney's inner west.