Baby-faced Brit Alistair Brownlee came of age as he claimed the 2009 world triathlon
title with a thrilling sprint finish on the Gold Coast on Saturday.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is employing shameless "Orwellian" tactics to airbrush the
Liberal Party's achievements from history, the opposition says.

Melbourne has posted its hottest day on record for the first half of September after
warm, windy conditions swept across Victoria.

A bus driver who ignored her own injuries to help hurt school children after a road crash in southern Sydney says she wants to get back behind the wheel.

The coalition is yet to decide whether it will re-introduce individual workplace contracts if it regains government, Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull says.

The federal opposition has renewed calls for an inquiry into Australia's border protection laws, after another boat carrying suspected asylum seekers was

Shares in Consolidated Media Holdings Ltd slumped more than nine per cent after
Kerry Stokes and James Packer called a temporary truce in their battle for control

Witnesses smashed a bus window to free almost 40 distressed and injured school
children after a collision with a car that left two people dead in Sydney's south.

The Australian Rugby Union (ARU) has failed to reach a decision on which Victorian
rugby consortium will head Australia's bid to become the 15th Super rugby team in
2011.

Five Australian soldiers have been hurt in a bomb attack in Afghanistan.
The troops were on a foot patrol in southern Afghanistan on Thursday when the