NSW Premier Kristina Keneally is hopeful an agreement can be reached over the
federal government's health reforms ahead of more one-on-one talks with Prime
Minister Kevin Rudd.

Rugby league great Allan Langer says he wouldn't have been able to live with himself
if he'd killed or maimed someone while driving drunk last month.

Richmond have suspended Ben Cousins, fuelling the perception that the star
midfielder's off-field behaviour is again sending his AFL career downhill.

Authorities will attempt to refloat the stranded bulk coal carrier on the Great
Barrier Reef on Monday night before bad weather hits the region.

Macarthur Coal Ltd suitor New Hope Corporation Ltd says it is relieved its target's
shareholders will have more time to consider its $3.71 billion takeover bid.

The federal government has slammed a teachers' union for being selfish as it
prepares to strike over national exams.

Australia halfback Johnathan Thurston may have to tackle the brutal Kiwis in next
month's Test in Melbourne without an NRL game after scans on Monday cleared the

A mother and her two sons are dead after their sedan and a truck crashed head-on on
the Warrego Highway in southeast Queensland.

NSW Waratahs have lost No.8 Wycliff Palu to a season-ending knee injury and are
sweating on the availability of fellow Wallabies forwards Benn Robinson and Tatafu

A task force to crack down on rorting and cost blowouts in the federal government's
$16 billion school building program is an admission of failure, the opposition says.