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The public service is doing well but not well enough, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says.

COLLINGWOOD is seeking a new naming rights partner for its headquarters after the end of its six-year deal with Lexus.

Just when you thought Google could get any more creepy, just look at this video from the TV Show "Hungry Beast" showing in Australia on the ABC Television network.

Kevin Rudd will lose the votes of tens of thousands of churchgoers if he does not overturn the ACT's civil partnership legislation, according to the Australian Christian Lobby.

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MORE than $1 million of heroin concealed inside tiles normally used for indoor games has arrived at Sydney International Airport, police said.

It's been revealed that rangers regarded as the "SAS of bushfire fighting" are among more than 200 parks and wildlife staff facing the axe under cutbacks ordered by the NSW government.

The AFL has announced details of the first ever match in China with Melbourne and Brisbane set to clash in Shanghai in October 2010.

When one of the ABC's leading warming spruikers, Lateline's Tony Jones, leads with his chin, you look forward to seeing an intelligent Liberal such as Tony Abbott job him.

Mathew Leckie bobbed up deep into injury time to snatch an equaliser for Adelaide.

Australia's Robert Allenby has lost his lead at the Dubai World Championship as Englishman Lee Westwood capitalised on a day of amazing twists and turns.

Wallabies flanker George Smith says Australia's 27-year dominance over Scotland has not weakened his respect for the side ahead of tonight's clash at Murrayfield.

Two men have been charged with a raft of drug and weapons offences after police raided two properties in Melbourne's west.

Resourcehouse Ltd chairman Clive Palmer says a Chinese bank is keen to back the company's proposed $7.5b Queensland coal mine and infrastructure development.

A total fire ban is in place for many parts of the state with high temperatures expected again today.

ITALIAN dictator Benito Mussolini's blood and brain went on sale for €15,000 on online auction website eBay before the company pulled the ad posted by an anonymous seller.

A top South Korean model who was a fixture at fashion week in Paris and London has been found dead in her apartment in Paris, an official says.

THE world's biggest atom-smasher, shut down after its inauguration in September 2008 amid technical faults, has been restarted.

THE world's biggest atom-smasher, shut down after its inauguration in September 2008 amid technical faults, has been restarted.

A domestically abused man, convicted of strangling his wife to death, has been sentenced to 14 years jail under a contentious new Victorian law.