7:22 AM AEDT | Rising sea levels could lead to extra naval deployments to deal with increases in illegal migration and fishing, a Defence Force analysis says.
1:00 AM AEDT | MELBOURNE'S Jewish community is mourning the loss of Greg Sher, an Australian soldier killed by Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan on Sunday.
1:00 AM AEDT | STUDENT assignments from the University of Wollongong were used without the students' knowledge as part of an alleged ruse to fool the US Government and the space agency NASA into handing over millions of dollars for futuristic scientific research.
1:00 AM AEDT | THE Rural Fire Service will enforce a fire ban through large areas of the state today as firefighters struggle to contain three blazes and temperatures are expected to reach 40 degrees.
1:00 AM AEDT | THE plan to build a high-speed subway through the inner west is more likely to deliver windfall profits to developers than sustainable inner-city living, Opposition parties, local councils and residen...
1:00 AM AEDT | SYDNEY'S mooted transport makeover is great news for anyone who loves commuting. Essentially, the new "metro" will operate along three lines.
The western line will provide a "corri...
1:00 AM AEDT | IT IS neither Clover Moore nor Nathan Rees who will most influence Sydney over the coming decade. Instead, if he's willing, it will be the Prime Minister who decides the city's future.
Kev...
1:00 AM AEDT | ONE in four Vietnamese-style pork rolls have been found to be unhygienic and experts predict the statistics will worsen as summer heat warms the food to unsafe levels.
1:00 AM AEDT | AUSTRALIAN sailors are being exposed to deadly asbestos fibres because the navy continues to use illegal asbestos-contaminated parts, years after they were outlawed.
1:00 AM AEDT | Set among the gum trees and grass at Moorebank, the Australian Defence Force's massive main storage facility in Sydney's south-west, Shed 34 appears like any other.
Low-slung and long, the...
1:00 AM AEDT | THE man running the so-called grassroots campaign aimed at stopping controversial new restrictions on pubs and clubs is being paid a consultant's fee by the hotel industry.
1:00 AM AEDT | "INEVITABLE" was the word being used in Leichhardt yesterday as residents discussed the Rees Government's proposed high-density development for inner Sydney.
1:00 AM AEDT | THE naval communications base at Exmouth is not to blame for recent navigation problems for Qantas planes, according to an official.
1:00 AM AEDT | A hoax aimed at Keith Windschuttle and Quadrant was elaborately planned, writes David Marr.
1:00 AM AEDT | THE CSIRO got to the brink of commercialising a cancer-fighting strain of wheat engineered with human genes, according to the hoax article, before backing off for fear of moral outrage from the public...
1:00 AM AEDT | THE Rudd Government has refused to give details about why it has rejected two requests by the US President, George Bush, for Australia to accept detainees from the Guantanamo Bay prison.
1:00 AM AEDT | MATTHEW GUDZE was surprised yesterday to learn that his honours thesis had been used as part of an alleged scam to fleece millions from the US Government.
"I don't think my thesis was sign...
1:00 AM AEDT | IT WAS a long, hot holiday day in Rosemeadow on Monday, as the temperature soared to 38 degrees by 3pm.
6/01/2009 | Peter Garrett looked uncharacteristically pleased as he announced his decision to defer a decision about the Tasmanian pulp mill.
6/01/2009 | Most Australian cities now have serious rail projects; for me, it is an exciting time. Sydney has two metro rail lines on Infrastructure Australia's interim priority list for Commonwealth funding:...
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