The so-called real Sydney to Hobart yacht race, the battle for handicap honours, was
securely in Sydney skipper Bob Steel's bag after his 52-foot yacht Quest docked in

The Australian government has urged Israel and Hamas to agree to a new truce and end
the violence in Gaza.

Unions have every right to raise matters with the International Labour Organisation, but the government believes its industrial relations policy is fair, acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard says.

Millionaire Victorian Labor MP Evan Thornley has announced his resignation a day before his widely anticipated promotion to the Victorian government's front bench.

The national holiday road toll remains at 39.
The latest fatality occurred in Queensland on Sunday morning, when a car crashed into a tree in Brisbane, killing a woman.

A search is underway for a woman in north Queensland who is believed to have been missing since Christmas Day.

Shoppers have defied the economic gloom to spend up big in post-Christmas sales at department stores across the country.

Emergency crews have contained a bushfire burning in the NSW central west for four days.

The search for a man feared taken by a shark off a West Australian beach has so far failed to find him.

Two fatalities in Western Australia have brought the national holiday road toll to 32.