(AAP) A young brother and sister have died in a house fire in Rockhampton but another child, their mother and grandmother escaped the blaze.

(aap) Richard Pratt was "entrapped" by Australia's chief corporate watchdog Graeme Samuel
who had an agenda to criminalise cartels, the cardboard tycoon's lawyer has claimed.

(AAP) Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will go the West Australia on Wednesday to campaign for the upcoming state election, with the Liberals predicting his appearance will prove a negative for the Carpen

(aap) Two incidents less than one minute apart in Monday night's win over Gold Coast seem certain to rule veteran Newcastle centre Adam MacDougall out of Sunday's NRL trip to Canberra.

(AAP) The next instalment of climate change adviser Ross Garnaut's vision for emissions trading will be released on September 5.

AAP - Australia is hopeful of an early conclusion to a regional free trade agreement (FTA) with intensive negotiations underway, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith says.

AAP - Labor has scraped back into power in the Northern Territory, with Chief Minister Paul Henderson shouldering the blame for the mistakes that prompted a massive voter backlash.

The AFL is poised to stamp out one of the game's traditions, with plans afoot to prevent crowd invasions if two superstar forwards post their goal-kicking centuries this season.

A man has shot himself dead after shooting a woman in the face, seriously injuring her, at a Melbourne railway station late this afternoon.

(AAP) Australian special forces have caught a Taliban leader behind a host of bomb attacks in Afghanistan's Oruzgan province, potentially dealing a blow to future terrorist assaults.