The three Bali bombers are spending their last hours of life in isolation lockdown in a remote Indonesian prison, with their executions to be meted out within days.

(APP) - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says he is confident Australia will avoid a recession despite predictions of rising unemployment and the global financial crisis hurting other countries.

(AAP) - Labor is set to form a minority government in the ACT after attracting the support of the Greens.

(AAP) - The federal health minister and the Victorian premier are challenging an immigration department decision refusing permanent residency to a German doctor because one of his children has Down

(AAP) - Wallabies coach Robbie Deans has urged his troops to rise to the challenge and get square with the All Blacks in Saturday's landmark Bledisloe Cup clash in Hong Kong.

(AAP) - Troubled childcare provider ABC Learning Centres has delayed releasing its fiscal 2008 annual results for the third time this year.

(AAP) - As many as 10,000 jobs or eight per cent of the big five's workforce could be shed from the banking industry over the next 12 months as the major banks cut costs and shore up their balance

(AAP) - The global credit crunch and liquidity crisis has entrenched the dominance of Australia's big four banks and left non-bank lenders and mortgage brokers battling just to stay afloat.

Fitness has emerged as key factor in Port Adelaide's slide down the AFL ladder this year.

Stinging from suggestions it's merely an exhibition game, the Wallabies and All Blacks have promised as ferocious a Bledisloe Cup battle as ever in Hong Kong on Saturday night.