ABC News: Breaking Stories - 47 minutes ago
The Transport Workers Union wants police to investigate trucking companies after a drug testing blitz on drivers.
ABC News: Breaking Stories - 53 minutes ago
The construction sector's health waned for a fourth consecutive month in August, as fiscal stimulus continued to pull back.
ABC News: Breaking Stories - 2 hours ago
A controversial zebra herd sculpture on Lake George near Canberra is on the move.
US president Barack Obama has announced plans to spend tens of billions of dollars on a huge infrastructure project to create jobs and boost confidence in the American economy.
Lebanon's prime minister has withdrawn an accusation that Syria was to blame for his father's assassination five years ago.
A judge in the Bahamas has dismissed charges against two people accused of trying to extort $US25 million from John Travolta over his son's death.
The Nuyts Archipelago and Investigator Group of Islands on the west coast of South Australia will be afforded the highest level of environmental protection available under state legislation.
ABC News: Breaking Stories - 3 hours ago
Sentence cuts of up to 40 per cent are being proposed for criminals who plead guilty before a case gets to trial in South Australia.
A search has resumed for a 15-year-old boy missing in the New South Wales snowy mountains.
Education Queensland has closed Cairns State High School as police investigate a serious assault at the school overnight.
Stocks on the key global markets have posted modest rises, with no direction from Wall Street as the New York Stock Exchange was closed for the Labor Day holiday.
It has taken years, but finally Australia has a pineapple it can call its own.
Foreign forces in Afghanistan are facing their deadliest year yet, with the death toll already passing 500, as compared to 521 for all of last year.
Authorities in Queensland's far south-west say they are hoping one road out of Birdsville will reopen today where there are still about 3,000 people left are stranded because of wet and muddy roads.
ABC News: Breaking Stories - 4 hours ago
President Nicolas Sarkozy says he wants to strip French nationality from immigrants if they kill or try to kill police or public officials, as part of a controversial law and order drive.
Researchers say babies born with low vitamin D levels may have an increased risk of developing schizophrenia later in life.
New Zealand's government says it may have to foot the bill for thousands of unisnured people who suffered major losses in Saturday's Christchurch earthquake.
Police investigating the death of a man who worked for Britain's secret intelligence service MI6 say they are trying to trace a couple who paid a visit to his flat about a month before he was found dead.
Pakistani authorities are racing to protect two southern towns and their 360,000 residents from surging floods, as the nation struggles to cope with its worst natural disaster in living memory.
The Reserve Bank is widely expected to leave the official interest rates on hold today, as it surveys an uncertain global outlook.
Greenpeace says it will appeal the conviction of two Japanese anti-whaling protesters who were convicted of stealing a box of whale meat yesterday.
ABC News: Breaking Stories - 5 hours ago
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair says he has cancelled a book-signing in London this week to mark the launch of his memoirs, over fears the event would be hit by protests.
ABC News: Breaking Stories - 6 hours ago
A Church of England vicar who oversaw hundreds of sham marriages to help migrants settle illegally in Britain was jailed for four years on Monday.
A prominent Afghan journalist has been murdered in the capital Kabul.
The death toll from multiple landslides in Guatemala has risen 44, with at least 16 people still missing.
ABC News: Breaking Stories - 8 hours ago
A strike that brought to a halt large sections of South Africa's public service has been suspended for three weeks.
ABC News: Breaking Stories - 9 hours ago
After more than two weeks of waiting the shape of Australia's next government could become clear today with independent MPs Rob Oakeshott, Tony Windsor and Bob Katter finalising their negotiations with Labor and the Coalition on who they will back to form
ABC News: Breaking Stories - 10 hours ago
As floodwaters continue to rise in Victoria the State Emergency Service (SES) says its biggest concern overnight is Shepparton in the the state's north-east.
ABC News: Breaking Stories - 11 hours ago
The New Zealand government has extended the state of emergency in earthquake-ravaged Christchurch until Wednesday and appointed a special minister to oversee the recovery effort as aftershocks continue.
The play Richard III, the musical Avenue Q and the opera Peter Grimes were the big winners at the tenth annual Helpmann Awards on Monday night.
Blue's News - 7 hours ago
There's a Drama Cleansing Thread on the Elemental Forums written by Stardock's Brad "Frogboy" Wardell discussing the future of Elemental: War of Magic, their 4X turn-based strategy game. Going...
Lost Luggage Studios offers version 1.2 of Anirah: Riddle of the Pharaohs, and the new version of this "MahJongg-like math-based puzzle game" adds Mac support. There are shareware trial versions...
Open beta testing for The Bible Online is slated to begin today at 6:00 pm GMT+1, which the Blue Computer tells us is about a half-hour ago. The Bible Online is a browser-based MMOG with RTS and RPG...
1C-SoftClub and Snowball Studios announce that Combat Mission Afghanistan is gold, and this standalone military tactical simulator will go on sale in Russia on September 10. This will be followed...
Aliens Colonial Marines is still in the works at Gearbox Software, reports Joystiq based on comments at the Gearbox Software panel at PAX. It's a sign of how little news there's been lately about...
Batman: Arkham City will reportedly include multiplayer support, reports GameSpy, saying the news on the recently announced sequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum is in the latest print issue of PSM3,...
ESTSoft announces details on the fourth episode of CABAL Online, a free expansion which will go live later this month for both the US edition and the European edition of this free-to-play MMORPG....
The PC edition of Chime is now available on Steam, offering this puzzle game already released on consoles, including a new PC-specific level using Jonathan Coulton's song Still Alive from the Portal...
A teaser trailer for episode one of Lylian is now available, offering a gameplay-free teaser of this upcoming 2D episodic side-scroller. Not to be outdone, the Lylian Game Media Page offers a...
For the record, Gearbox Software now owns the Duke Nukem intellectual property, as we see this being reported on a number of gaming sites today and yesterday. We reported this on Friday, but this was...
Whirlpool.net.au - 3 days ago
The results of Whirlpool's 2009 Australian Broadband Survey are now available.
The Federal Government?s proposed ISP-level filtering policy is costly, complicated, and will be completely ineffective.
Whirlpool.net.au - 7 days ago
Households that already have access to ADSL2+ won't get a fibre upgrade under the NBN, according to a shock announcement on ABC radio last night by Stephen Conroy.
Whirlpool.net.au - 9 days ago
The Australian Broadband Survey 2009 is here, and we are once again asking consumers to have their say about the state of broadband in Australia.
Whirlpool.net.au - 12 days ago
The first locations in Tasmania to get connected to the NBN were announced today by the Prime Minister.
Whirlpool.net.au - 16 days ago
3 mobile customers look set to get expanded "on network" 2G coverage, thanks to the merger of the two telcos announced earlier this year.
Whirlpool.net.au - 17 days ago
The Tasmanian and Federal governments have jointly announced the locations for stage two of the NBN rollout.
Whirlpool.net.au - 23 days ago
The Federal Government plans to implement mandatory ISP filtering for "refused classification" websites, it was announced today.
Whirlpool.net.au - 25 days ago
A major Internet link between Australia and the rest of the world has failed, affecting multiple ISPs and their customers.
Whirlpool.net.au - 28 days ago
Primus' data centre at 55 King St Melbourne lost power this afternoon, only months after a similar issue crippled multiple ISPs.
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