Half a billion dollars will fund clean power plants across Australia over the next
18 months in a bid to fight climate change.

An Australian climber who watched his brother fall to his death on New Zealand's
highest mountain thought he would also perish on the treacherous peak.

Bernard Tomic's dad has made a public apology following his son's controversial exit
from a Perth tennis tournament earlier this month.

The mother of a 15-year-old boy shot dead by police has told of her grief for a
cherished "fragile, loving and loyal" son.

Police admit new laws including fines of up to $2,200 to curb alcohol-fuelled
violence on New Year's Eve, might antagonise drunken louts.

With New Zealand Open and Japan Open titles already in his keeping, David Smail has
put himself in position to add an Australian Open crown to his resume in the final

A Perth man has survived after spending up to two nights in an ice cave on New
Zealand's Mt Cook after seeing his brother fall to his death from the country's
highest peak.

Comeback jockey Chris Munce was a happy man despite failing to ride a winner at wet and windy Randwick as storm clouds gathered over Australia's relationship with Hong Kong racing which ruled he sh

Senior opposition MPs have played down the continuing spat over the collapse in party discipline in the Senate last week.

Australia will give $1 million to Papua New Guinea after high sea swells inundated several provinces. Two children reportedly died as a result of the huge waves.