INDONESIAN authorities have stopped more than 1000 would-be asylum-seekers from setting off for Australia, a sign of better co-operation in tackling unlawful migration, Home Affairs Minister Brendan O'Connor said yesterday. The main focus of the Rudd...

IN hospitals around Australia, soldiers who have been seriously wounded in Afghanistan are checked in under false names in order to protect them from the public eye. One Afghanistan veteran, in his early 20s, is in a private hospital in NSW. He has...

CLIMBING Uluru will be banned under a draft management plan for Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park released today by Parks Australia. A third of visitors each year - about 100,000 people - climb the rock despite signs from traditional owners pleading with...

GANGLAND matriarch Judy Moran has been charged with the murder of her brother in law Des "Tuppence" Moran at a Melbourne suburban coffee shop on June 15. Ms Moran, along with her family friend Suzanne Kane, had already been charged with one count each...

MELBOURNE man Shane Kent has pleaded guilty in the Victorian Supreme Court to being a member of a terrorist organisation and being involved in preparing a terrorist act. Kent, 33, from Campbellfield, made the admission today just before a jury was to...

THE Reserve Bank raised interest rates to 3.75 per cent today, marking the first time it has lifted rates for three consecutive months.

THE Liberal party is desperately vowing to put forward a united front and fall in behind Tony Abbott as the new Liberal leader.

TONY Abbott's rise is a fundamental change in the Liberals. A highly progressive leader has been replaced by a highly conservative leader.

DEFEATED Liberal leadership aspirant Joe Hockey has sought to portray his defeat in this morning’s ballot as the price of loyalty and honour.

TONY Abbott says he feels "proud and exhilarated" after beating Malcolm Turnbull by a single vote to take over the Liberal leadership today.