An optimistic federal Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson has met the campaign teams of both US presidential candidates - despite doubts over how long he will remain leader.

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has joined in the growing row over whether retail banks should cut mortgage rates if the central bank does, saying they should.

States could get more health dollars for getting people to give up smoking and cutting rates of childhood obesity under the Rudd government's comprehensive plan to reform Australian health.

British-born Australian singer Christie Allen, one of the pop sensations of the Countdown era, has died following a battle with pancreatic cancer.

The judge in the trial of 12 alleged Melbourne terrorists has warned jurors not to let prejudice towards Muslims cloud their judgment.

Australia is expected to announce details of an aid package for war-torn Georgia within 24 hours.

West Australian Liberals leader Colin Barnett is promoting uranium mining as a key plank in his party's election campaign, saying the state should begin exporting yellowcake within five to six year

(AAP) Brendan Nelson's rating as opposition leader has slumped to its lowest level since he was elected, a new poll shows.

(AAP) Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon says it was "not ideal" that a helicopter sent to rescue wounded Australian troops in Afghanistan had a rough landing that injured another soldier.

(AAP) Pretoria, South Africa, August 12, SPA -- Mohammed Mahmoud Al-Ali, the Saudi Ambassador to South Africa met today with South African Minister of Defense Mosiuoa Lekota at his office in the Mi