A large tattoo featuring an eagle and a tiger could be the key to identifying a man
believed bludgeoned to death and the body dumped in Melbourne's east.

The railway line between Townsville and Cairns was reopened on Sunday, four days
after a train hit a garbage truck at a rail level crossing in far north Queensland.

A solo Canadian yachtsman whose boat was badly damaged when it was upended in heavy seas in the Southern Ocean is expected to arrive in Hobart on Sunday morning where he'll be reunited with his you

Police are hoping that a distinctive tattoo found on the badly decomposed body of a man whose remains were found off a dirt road in Melbourne will help to identify him.

The federal government has urged bosses to rethink plans to sack workers amid fears of employment rocketing up in 2009.

Australia will not take any former inmates of the US' Guantanamo Bay detention centre, acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard says.

The Melbourne council at the centre of a housing estate gas scare says the
Environment Protection Authority has concluded the risk was acceptable despite

Australian retailers, already hit by the economic downturn, are finding ways to cut
costs during the seasonally quiet February and March period.

A study of premature babies has revealed a link between pre-term births and mental
illness, which an expert says has implications for the way mothers and babies should
be treated.

Lleyton Hewitt will be hoping it's a case of fourth time lucky when he teams up with
West Australian Casey Dellacqua to contest the 21st edition of Perth's Hopman Cup,