(AAP) - Increasing concerns about job security are impacting on the property market, with people opting to spend less and delay buying, a survey shows.

(AAP) - Sydney's Fiji community has marched through the city calling for the removal of Frank Bainimarama's military regime and the restoration of democracy in their homeland.

(AAP) - Hawthorn maintained a spot in the AFL top eight and kept Melbourne planted at the bottom of the ladder with a comfortable 22-point win at the MCG on Sunday.

(AAP) - Parents are being urged to keep their children at home if they have recently returned to Australia from any country seriously affected by swine flu.

(AAP) - A timely break in the weather has allowed many evacuees from flood-ravaged northern NSW to return home, but thousands more remain isolated.

(AAP) Another refereeing controversy has marred Gold Coast's 18-17 NRL win over Manly at Skilled Park on Sunday.

(AAP) - A boatload of 77 suspected asylum seekers has been intercepted near Ashmore Reef off Australia's northwest coast.

(AAP) - The Rudd government has bowed to pressure over its budget changes to employee share schemes, fast-tracking consultations designed to ensure average workers don't come off second best.

Tamil protest rallies have been held in four states without a hint of the ethnic
violence feared by sections of Australia's Sinhalese community, following a violent

Andrew McLeod inspired a host of his teammates to heights seldom seen in 2009 as
Adelaide brushed aside a lacklustre Carlton by 44 points to end a run of three