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Holden will open the books to the union and employees during a consultation process, before award-covered workers vote on a proposal in August.

Sydney, June 19: Police in Australia charged a man Wednesday in connection with a vicious gang attack on the owner of an Indian restaurateur earlier this month.

Curbs on the sale and possession of alcohol in 19 Queensland communities do target indigenous Australians, but do not breach international or Australian racial discrimination laws Alcohol management plans do not breach racial discrimination laws because they are "special measures" designed to protect vulnerable indigenous communities, Australia 's ... (more)

Katy Gallagher and Andrew Barr have the long awaited news that three new players are entering the Compulsory Third Party insurance market in the ACT: Three insurers: AAMI, GIO and Apia have been granted licences to offer CTP insurance to ACT motorists.

Parents of 31,000 Australian kids suffering from Type 2 diabetes should wear the blame for their poor health an international expert says.

There's no guarantee that President Barack Obama's health care law will launch smoothly and on time, congressional investigators say in the first in-depth independent look at its progress.

A tropical depression has formed off the coast of Belize and forecasters say it is expected to bring as much as five inches of rain to parts of Belize, Guatemala and northern Honduras.

's Homeless. Yearly, business leaders and CEO of different big companies experience what it is to be homeless as they sleep out in the streets.

A COUNTY Court jury in Wangaratta began deliberating yesterday afternoon in the trial of Chiltern man Owen Richard Allen over a fatal accident in Wodonga in 2010.

The man who raped and murdered Irish woman Jill Meagher in Melbourne, Australia, last year, has been sentenced to life in prison.

DEVELOPERS have earmarked more than $2.5 billion of major city projects since the State Government relaxed planning regulations in March last year.

Celebrating its 60th year, Cannes Lions has held the first of its four awards ceremonies which saw the winners of the Creative Effectiveness, Direct, PR and Promo & Activation Lions categories announced to a packed auditorium.

The activation of a passive plate boundary in the Atlantic Ocean could ultimately result in continental Europe moving closer to the US, according to new research appearing in the journal Geology .

But the state regulator has declared the era of big country price increases is over after years of huge hikes to pay for drought-busting projects.

Short-term users of antidepressants who are stressed and consume a high-fat diet might have a higher risk of long-term weight gain, researchers from the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, explained on Sunday at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, USA.

"This is the first large, placebo-controlled study of the effects of testosterone on mental skills in postmenopausal women who are not on estrogen therapy," said principal investigator Susan Davis, MBBS , PhD, of Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

With an average of 21 fog days over the winter months, passengers flying in and out of Canberra are familiar with delays due to the heavy mists that make it almost impossible to safely touch down.

BALLARAT MP Catherine King could be in danger of losing her seat at the next federal election, according to a political expert.

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Global surveillance is a threat to our personal freedom. And yet, the NSA revelations have barely caused a ripple on this side of the world Protesters hold placards as they march to the US consulate in Hong Kong, in support of Edward Snowden.