Another set of Aboriginal remains held at a British museum for almost a century are to be returned to Australia.

Most affluent Australian homeowners think the value of their homes and investment
properties will fall in the March quarter.

A man is dead and two people are critically injured after two motorcycles collided
head-on on a notorious, windy section of the Maroondah Highway east of Melbourne.

Timber giant Gunns Ltd has ramped up its battle with anti-logging activists in
Tasmania, suing 13 protesters involved in a raid on one of its woodchip mills last
month.

Australia's peak union body has called on employers to hold their nerve and not sack workers this year despite a slowing economy.

Big rate cuts and the federal government's pre-Christmas splurge could not lift Australia's services sector from ongoing difficulties in December, a survey says.

Queenslanders are being warned against illicit drugs following the death of a woman and hospitalisation of three others.

One-time defector Jelena Dokic has been named in Australia's Fed Cup squad, which has been labelled one of the strongest team in recent years.

A three-year-old boy is lucky to have survived a 10-metre cliff fall in Sydney's south with only minor injuries.

The recent allocation of aged care beds shows the industry is in crisis, the Aged Care Association of Australia says.