Bathurst, Australia News

Across the Tasman, dozens of firefighters are battling two blazes in the Blue Mountains.

AUTHORITIES are warning residents in parts of New South Wales to brace for flooding on Boxing Day, with heavy rainfall already soaking several areas and more on the way.

It is shaping as a wet Christmas for much of New South Wales and authorities have begun preparing for major flooding in parts of the state.

Opinion is valued ahead of evidence in the debate on global warming. ONE of the most bizarre aspects of the increasingly messy debate on an emissions trading scheme is the rise of denialism in Australia, which more than most rich countries has experienced the realities of climate change first hand.

Two farmers in southeastern Australia were severely burned Tuesday trying to protect their property from a bushfire, one of scores burning in the region.

The Central Tablelands Livestock Exchange at Carcoar in New South Wales has just held its largest sheep sale.

The Rural Fire Service says it has managed to stop the break-out of a bushfire burning in central west New South Wales.

The New South Wales Rural Fire Service Commissioner says there will be an investigation into three separate accidents over the past 24 hours involving helicopters fighting bushfires.

Two people have suffered serious burns while defending their property from one of many bushfires raging across New South Wales, with hot and windy conditions expected to continue.

TWO people have suffered serious burns while defending their property from one of many bushfires raging across New South Wales, with hot and windy conditions expected to continue.

Firefighters have been working overnight to extinguish hot spots and contain fires burning near Bathurst in the central-west of New South Wales.

About 90 firefighters are trying to contain two blazes near Bathurst in central-west New South Wales.

Things just keep getting better and better for those trying to establish 'square trotting' events as a regular component of country harness racing in New South Wales.

The Prime Minister will today hear first-hand the New South Wales central west's response to proposed health reforms.

Photo shows Sri Lankan asylum seekers who were caught in Indonesian waters while trying to sail to Australia, 26 Oct 2009 Opinion polls show that many Australians are unhappy with the way Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is handling the rising number of boat people trying to reach the country.

PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has attempted to shift the focus of the asylum seeker debate onto the federal opposition.

Paralympian Kurt Fearnley, who has won the New York Wheelchair Marathon four times, is taking on Kokoda / AAP THE greatest ever Australian crawl to prove that the impossible is possible, has begun.

THIRTEEN years after Pauline Hanson struck a chord with mainstream Australia, the vacuum she left when she departed the political scene remains unfilled.

A true miscarriage of justice from the Boer War has been ignored. "I CAME here to shoot Boers, not to play.'' With these harsh words, the bushman and buccaneer known to history as ''Breaker'' Morant justified killing unarmed men during the Boer War of 1899-1902. Until his court martial began, that is.

Australian police are cutting race fans off after two dozen cans of beer...per day.