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A creditors' meeting for troubled car parts supplier Trident Plastics will be held this morning.

The Mayor of the Whitsunday Regional Council says he is hopeful the Federal Government will help fund a new industrial precinct in the area.

The New South Wales Greens say the State Government has given the go-ahead to the creation of school league tables, by introducing new legislation...

A scathing report by Tasmania's Auditor-General has found the Government did not carry out a formal risk assessment before entering its rail deed...

The galley of the Air France passenger jet that crashed off the Brazilian coast has been found intact.

The tourism commission says new figures show the South Australian tourism industry is on track to overcome the current economic downturn.

Wall Street has ended the overnight session more than two-thirds of a per cent higher, as data about the jobs market and regional manufacturing...

Bus users in central Sydney are being warned that from Monday they will need to buy a pre-paid ticket.

Two prominent north Queensland cattle stations will go under the hammer in Townsville today as the financially troubled Great Southern Group attempts...

Outback Queensland tourism operators say they are not seeing any signs of the economic downturn.

Santos says an agreement to sell 2 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its Gladstone plant, in central Queensland, is a crucial...

The general manager of Australia's largest zinc mine in Queensland's Gulf country says the 800 jobs at the site are now secure.

The Australian Bankers' Association has defended the major institutions after a key measure of profitability found the banks are in a better position...

A Continental passenger plane en route from Brussels to New York lands safely after the pilot dies during the flight.

A report by the Auditor General showing that $800-million is needed to repair WA's ageing road network has been backed up by Main Roads.

The State Opposition claims $280-million of unallocated Royalties for Regions money could be used to upgrade Western Australia's rail network.

National Foods is cutting 34 jobs from its Riverland workforce of 175, based at Berri.

A $500-million workers village is planned for Barrow Island, off Karratha.

The ACT Government says it will employ a team of academics from the University of Canberra to help it develop more green industries producing...

An Adelaide car parts maker which laid off more than 100 workers last year now says it will offer up to 90 jobs to employees from New South Wales who...

The local sharemarket has slipped for the fourth consecutive day as investors divert their cash into yet more capital raisings.

A Reserve Bank report into banks' interest margins has found that they have grown during the global financial crisis.

Access Economics thinks the SA economy is well-placed in tough financial times.

More than 200 business leaders slept out in Sydney overnight to raise money for the homeless.

An anti-intervention campaigner, Barbara Shaw, says many Aboriginal people still do not understand the full extent of the Northern Territory...

Push to change parliamentary rules after a Greens Senator is asked to remove her two-year-old child from the chamber.

The family company of Japan's PM refuses to apologise to an Australian POW, who was forced to work in its coal mines.

Tim Winton has won the prestigious Miles Franklin Award for the fourth time.

The Opposition will use a Senate inquiry to target the PM over his involvement with a car dealer who gave him a free ute.

Australia and New Zealand are sending their first joint whale research expedition to the Antarctic.

Greens leader Bob Brown says the Senate's rules on children in the Upper House of Parliament are from the "horse and buggy days" and need to be...

The Opposition is calling for an independent review of the Government's school infrastructure funding program.

Senate President John Hogg has been criticised for asking Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young to remove her daughter from the Upper House during a vote...

The former head of the Federal Intervention has criticised the Northern Territory Government on its goals to reduce child abuse.

A staff member of Federal Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella has resigned over his behaviour at last night's Press Gallery Ball.

Australia and New Zealand are sending their first joint whale research expedition to the Antarctic.

The scathing Ombudsman's report into the Brimbank Council, in Melbourne's west, has claimed another victim.

State and territory Corrective Services ministers have agreed to a trial of mobile phone jamming technology at a New South Wales prison.

SA's Oppn leader says he has no plan to go and will lead the Liberals to next March's poll.

Sensitive files have disappeared on planning for the new Royal Adelaide Hospital.

The Federal Government has agreed to set up a public register to show who owns Commonwealth debt.

It's business as usual as both teams put player quarantines behind them to face off in their second meet for the 2009 season!

The Cowboys will rally against the last-placed Roosters with a new-look side and three players out for Origin, while the visitors will send a side...

A mining employment report says major changes are required if the industry is to cope with the loss of skilled workers due to retirement.

A union is demanding it be consulted before any announcement is made about the future of nearly 600 paper industry jobs in north-west Tasmania.

ACT Liberal leader Zed Seselja says he is not convinced that the Government's land rent scheme will improve housing affordability.

The coal miners' union has welcomed the failure of a proposed merger of two mining companies.

The Tasmanian Government is standing by its offer to keep the ACL Bearing Company afloat, despite fears the deal will fall through later today.

The value of coal exports is forecast to fall by 34 per cent next financial year as the industry comes down from record highs.

United States President Barack Obama has warned that unemployment in the US will keep going up and said it would be "a difficult year".