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People living in Perth's southern corridor of Kwinana, Rockingham and Mandurah rate the worst in the country for putting off attending a GP or dentist because of cost.

THE ANZ bank can afford to keep every job in Australia and should provide certainty for the 600 Melbourne call centre workers whose jobs may be sent offshore.

Bundaberg, severely hit by massive floods brought by ex-tropical cyclone Oswald in early January, has recovered.

Australia's Intrepid Mines Ltd is learning that business in Indonesia is personal as it wages a difficult fight to win back rights to a $5 billion copper and gold prospect in East Java.

It was early September - that's springtime in Western Australia - and two young biologists, Dwayne Gwynne and David Rentz, were on a field trip, wandering dirt roads near the highways, looking for insects, when one of them noticed a loose beer bottle lying on the ground - not so unusual in the Dongara region, where Australians zooming by often ... (more)

Researchers at the University of New South Wales have proposed a new method of distinguishing between quantum bits that are placed only a few nanometres apart in a silicon chip, taking them a step closer to the construction of a large-scale quantum computer.

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.

When the Russians liberated the Jews from the horrors of Auschwitz in Poland ,the main NAZI concentration camp in WW2 ,they were horrified by what they saw and the stories they were told by the Jewish survivors.This holds a special importance for Israelis, and they don,t easily forget that time in there past.

Elder Wilfred Hicks with ancient Aboriginal rock art depicting a kangaroo high above Bloodwood Creek on the Burrup Peninsula near Dampier.

A serial sex offender was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for raping and murdering an Irish woman while he was free on parole after previous convictions for raping five women.

'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.

With the mainstream media shedding jobs, but universities bumping up their numbers of journalism students, where will these fresh-faced wannabe Lois Lanes find work? Freelance writer Kylar Loussikian looks at the numbers.

A leap and bound over a small section of the Southern Ocean, Kangaroo Island awaits for a distinctive adventure just south of Adelaide, Australia .

GOVERNMENTS must continue to provide subsidies to keep manufacturers such as Holden in Australia, says former SA Thinker in Residence and industry expert Goran Roos.

AN accused murderer thumped the wall of the prisoner's dock as she listened to evidence from a man she allegedly stabbed during a violent brawl at a Bribie Island holiday unit.

The New South Wales budget for the 2013-14 financial year shows a strong ICT focus compared to other states in Australia, according to the Australian Computer Society.

More than 100 former WA hostel boarders have applied for sex abuse compensation after the Blaxell inquiry examined a litany of abuse across WA schools.

Here is the Australian Climate Commission's complex figure showing global warming resulting largely from the burning of fossil fuel; image ; Credit: Australian Climate Commission The Australians have suffered more than most from climate change problems, with fire and flood dominating their headline news annually.