A soldier has died after an armoured personnel carrier in which he was travelling
rolled during training exercises at the Puckapunyal army base north of Melbourne.

Contract talks with Darren Lockyer will be finalised soon - but the Broncos have
dismissed speculation that they will add a clause ruling him out of representative

The federal government has quietly dumped its Grocery Choice price-monitoring website.
It announced the decision late on Friday, only days before the unpopular initiative

A 71-year-old Melbourne woman has become the fourth Australian with swine flu to die.
Victoria's health department was notified of the woman's death late on Thursday

A date has been set for a vote on emissions trading.
The Senate managed to dodge a vote this week, despite the government's best efforts
to bring it on.

Home owners are not being panicked into switching to fixed rate loans, despite the
nation's largest home lender recently raising its standard variable mortgage rate, a

Successful Australian Simon Gerrans is mystified as to why he has been left out of
the Cervelo Test Team for next month's Tour de France, a decision slammed as

A Melbourne magistrate told officials her father was driving her speeding car
because she risked losing her licence, a report has found.

The Wallabies are bracing for a "vicious" encounter with France on Saturday night
but remain confident of avoiding an All Blacks-style mugging from Les Bleus.

The man who led NSW to their first Origin triumph, champion halfback Steve Mortimer,
has led calls for the Blues to follow the lead of Queensland in appointing a coach