Close to 1.4 million workers are expected to benefit from a boost to the minimum wage. The Fair Pay Commission's awarded a $26-a-week increase, taking the minimum wage to 570 dollars. Employers had argued the increase should be limited to $ 12.50. Th...
The second Australian was wounded during Israel's raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. Fairfax photographer Kate Geraghty said she was attacked with a stun gun and suffered burns and bruising. Israel is deporting nearly 700 people arrested during the r...
Australian system of detaining and processing asylum seekers offshore is being challenged in the High Court. Four new challenges to the policy have been filed. Lawyers for at least 13 Afghani and Sri Lankan asylum seekers have already managed to dela...
Documents show the Federal Government was planning ads promoting its super profits tax before the Henry review was publicly released. The review recommended the mining tax. Letters between Federal MPs show the Government expected the tax to affect sh...
In the US, it's feared it could be more than two months before oil stops leaking from a well in the Gulf of Mexico. BP's latest attempt to plug the leak failed. Twenty million gallons have so far spewed into the Gulf in the worst oil disaster in US h...
Hello, Nick Lucchinelli with the National Weather. Thick cloud is swarming over the southeast of the country around an intensifying low, generating heavy rain. Scattered cloud over western Victoria and South Australia is bringing showers. Mostly clea...
The Federal Government has been accused of misusing taxpayer money to fund its mining super profits tax campaign. The Government exempted itself from its own guidelines to run the ad blitz to counter what it says is misleading information from the mi...
Federal Home Affairs Minister Brendan O'Connor has accused West Australian Government of softening its stance on people smugglers. The State's Attorney-General Christian Porter has announced that WA will no longer house people smugglers in its prison...
Energy giant BP has begun a complex operation to plug its leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. After a string of failed attempts to stop the leak, the company is now said it's going to force-feed the broken pipe with heavy drilling, mud and cement...
The Thai governments cracking down on those that it blames for causing the recent unrest in Bangkok. A Thai court has approved an arrest warrant for ex-leader Thaksin Shinawatra, accusing him of inciting last week's protests. His lawyer Robert Amster...
Israel says its relationship with Australia will only grow stronger despite Australia's decision to expel one of its diplomats. The Federal Government says it was left in no doubt that Israel was responsible for using forged Australian passports in t...
The Duchess of York has been caught on camera offering to sell access to her husband Prince Andrew. The News of the World says Sarah Ferguson was filmed by one of its reporters posing as a businessman. And it appears that she accepts 40,000 US dollar...
Taking a look at the satellite image first, and thick cloud crossing southern WA ahead of an intense low is generating showers and thunderstorms. Patchy cloud in the northern tropics in a trough is also bringing showers and clouds bringing showers of...
The Federal Opposition says the proposed super profits mining tax is partly to blame for a massive fall in the Australian dollar. The dollar hit a ten-month low on Friday. And Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey says foreign investors have been spooked by th...
State Transport Minister David Campbell has quitted his portfolio after being caught on tape visiting a gay sex club. Channel Seven last night broadcast footage of David Campbell visiting Sydney sauna Ken's at Kensington on Tuesday. And in a statemen...
