Queensland Roar claimed the inaugural W-League championship with a solid 2-0 win over Canberra United at Ballymore in Brisbane.

Fire crews are battling a large bushfire next to state forest in south-east Queensland.

Searing heat slowed down trains as well as people in Western Australia on Friday.
Transperth said second-stage heat restrictions were enforced from about 12.30pm

Activists preventing logging in Victoria's far east are threatening the jobs and
livelihoods of local timber communities, the nation's peak timber body says.

Up to 50,000 people are boot-scooting their way to Tamworth for the annual country
music pilgrimage that more than doubles the city's population.

Australia will probably have to go nuclear to tackle climate change, engineers and
scientists say.
They say nuclear power is the only reliable, proven source of electricity with a

Two sailors are stranded aboard their disabled yacht in Bass Strait, off Victoria's
south-west coast.

Farmers opposed to genetically modified (GM) crops have welcomed the results of the
first independent trials of GM canola, which show it produced similar yields to

Funding for public schools will increase under the Rudd government over the next
four years but will remain below the levels in place when the Howard government came

Greg Bird will not play in the National Rugby League this season after Cronulla on
Friday released the former Test player from his contract.