SYDNEY (AAP) - Oct 10 - Support for the federal government's poker machine reforms is slipping, but a majority of voters remain in favour.

SYDNEY (AAP) - Oct 10 - The new head of Australia's competition watchdog has the major supermarket chains, airports and the telecommunications sector in his sights.

SYDNEY (AAP) - Oct 10 - The South Australian government has approved the $30 billion expansion of BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam uranium and copper mine, describing the project as a "game changer" for

SYDNEY (AAP) - Oct 10 - A senior Labor strategist says there is much anxiety in the federal party over its falling stocks, while the opposition has pointed to "palpable hostility" between Prime Min

SYDNEY (AAP) - Oct 10 - The Greens have given the strongest indication yet they'll back Labor's $300 million steel industry assistance package when the lower house votes on the carbon tax legislati

SYDNEY (AAP) - Oct 10 - Hopes are rising that an Australian teenager arrested for drug possession in Bali will avoid a jail term and be ordered instead to undergo rehabilitation.

SYDNEY (AAP) - Oct 10 - Fist-sized "patties" of oil from the shipwrecked Rena are washing up on multiple New Zealand beaches, with more contamination expected overnight.

SYDNEY (AAP) - Oct 07 - New Zealand's women have beaten Australia in their under-17 soccer series.

SYDNEY (AAP) - Oct 07 - Screams resonated across Sydney as hundreds of teenage girls lined the orange carpet and held up their mobile numbers for the hottest teen celebrities at this years Nickelod

SYDNEY (AAP) - Oct 07 - After five years of playing soccer in Egypt, Ahmed Saad returned to Australia as a 16-year-old who had never touched an AFL ball.