(AAP) - With Labor's new workplace laws hanging in the balance in the Senate, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has unleashed a vitriolic attack on Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull.

(AAP) - Distillers have promised to donate any alcopops tax refund received to health advocacy groups and to introduce warning labels on pre-mixed drinks.

(AAP) - The NRL declared war on alcohol on Thursday after mounting pressure from major sponsors, fans and the federal government for repeated indiscretions by intoxicated footballers.

(AAP) - Roads to Marysville are expected to open to residents next week, more than a month after the February 7 inferno ripped through the mountain retreat town.

(AAP) - The federal government says $793 million earmarked to upgrade defence sites across Australia will create jobs.

(AAP) - Indonesian prosecutors have accused the pilot of a Garuda plane that crashed killing 21 people - including five Australians - of fabricating a story about mechanical problems to escape blam

A Royal Australian Navy mine-hunting vessel has located objects that may be some of
the 31 shipping containers lost off the southeast Queensland coast last week.

North Queensland forward Manase Manuokafoa has escaped suspension at the NRL
judiciary on Wednesday night.

Australia's biotech sector is pushing for a $600 million rescue package needed, it
says, to ensure its 1,200 companies survive the global economic slow-down.

Further earth tremors are likely following a 4.5 magnitude earthquake that shook
Melbourne and eastern Victoria on Wednesday.