Victoria's Premier Denis Napthine is heading to Canberra this afternoon to try to secure an assistance package for Toyota workers. The company's decision to stop making cars in Australia by the end of 2017 effectively spells(意味着） the end of t...
At least 20 properties are thought to be destroyed as 50 bushfires continue to burn right across Victoria. An emergency warning's been reissued for the Midland Road, fires in Melbourne's northern fringe. It's now spread across 40 kilometres taking in...
The Reserve Bank has hinted rising inflation could mean the next interest rate move may be up. In its latest quarterly statement, the RBA reiterated interest rate will likely stay at historic low of 2.5 percent for some time, but it says inflation is...
The monsoon and multiple tropical lows are causing heavy rains,wind and thunderstorms across the tropics. A trough is hitting the south of the country and producing a few showers and storms. A high is directing showers onto the Queensland coast. Look...
Indonesia's Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa has once again expressed concern about Australia's policy to turn back asylum seeker boats. The ABC has obtained exclusive footage of an Australian navy lifeboat carrying asylum seekers that landed on Jav...
The United Nations says the Vatican should immediately remove all priests who are known or suspected child abusers. Its unprecedented report accuses the Catholic church of adopting policies which have allowed priests to sexually abuse thousands of ch...
There's to be a changing at the guard at the top of Microsoft. The technology company has announced that Satya Nadella will be its next chief executive. Indian-born Mr. Nadella is currently Microsoft's head of Cloud, an enterprise which builds and ru...
Cancer has overtaken heart disease as the No.1 killer both in Australia and around the world. A new report by the World Health Organization says just over eight million people across the world died of cancer in 2012. Forty thousand of them were in Au...
Polls have closed in Thailand in a general election that was boycotted by the opposition and disrupted by protests. Anti-government activists forced some polling stations in Bangkok and the south to close, but voting elsewhere across the country went...
And when the markets in Europe closed just a couple of hours ago, London's FTSE 100 was down 28 points. The Dax and Euro also finished lower. In the US, trading comes to a close shortly, the Dow Jones and SP 500 are both tracking lower. And the Austr...
A low-pressure trough in Western Australia is triggering showers and potentially severe thunderstorms. Remnants of ex-tropical cyclone Dylan are generating widespread showers over southern Queensland. And a monsoon trough is generating thundery showe...
Fruit processing company SPC Ardmona is facing an uncertain future after Federal cabinet knocks back its request for financial assistance. The company was asking for 25 million dollars to help restructure its operations. Thousands of jobs in the Vict...
Australian Peter Greste is among 20 Al Jazeera journalists who go on trial in Egypt on terrorism-related offenses. Mr. Greste is accused of aiding members of a terrorist organization. He and two of his colleagues have been in custody in Cairo since l...
And Apple shares have fallen sharply on the back of flat profit results. Shares in the tech-giant plunged close to nine percent overnight. The company has reported a profit of just over 13 billion dollars in the four months to January. Apple says it...
New evidence has exposed endemic corruption with Australia's construction industry. A joint 7:30Fairfax Media investigation has found that high-raking officials in the CFMEU(Construction,Forestry, Mining and Energy Union)have helped organized crime f...
