20 Nov 2009An woman has died and a man is in a critical condition in hospital after fire gutted their home in Melbourne's west.
20 Nov 2009One school in Ipswich produced both the best and the worst of end-of-year behaviour as 45,000 Queensland students finished Year 12.
20 Nov 2009Two men have been charged with a raft of drug and weapons offences after police raided two properties in Melbourne's west.
20 Nov 2009Tennis great John Alexander is trying again to win Liberal party preselection, this time in former Prime Minister John Howard's old seat of Bennelong.
By Crystal Ja | 20 Nov 2009Senator Nick Minchin has denied Tony Abbott is preparing to challenge for the Liberal leadership in a split over the emissions trading scheme.
20 Nov 2009The hottest day in Victoria since Black Saturday has ended with wild storms hitting metropolitan Melbourne.
By Warwick Stanley | 20 Nov 2009A coroner has described decisions by authorities that led to the deaths of three truck drivers in a WA bushfire as "demonstrating extreme incompetence".
20 Nov 2009A lethal new batch of heroin is thought to be responsible for at least three fatal drug overdoses in Perth in a week, West Australian police say.
By Evan Schwarten, Steve Gray and Petrina Berry | 20 Nov 2009Every Queensland indigenous community has a substantial violence problem, and a new approach is needed to tackle the mayhem, a landmark report says.
By Evan Schwarten and Steve Gray | 20 Nov 2009Queensland's anti-corruption chief has apologised over a delayed report into the police handling of an Aboriginal death in custody.
20 Nov 2009A sexual predator who cruised Perth streets posing as a cabbie, picking up young drunk men and sexually assaulting them, has been jailed for at least 18 years.
20 Nov 2009A six-year-old Melbourne schoolboy has been bitten by a snake in the playground at lunchtime.
20 Nov 2009Sydney parents have been duped into paying a large sum of cash to an anonymous caller falsely claiming to have kidnapped their daughter.
By ninemsn staff with AAP | 20 Nov 2009A bushfire fanned by strong hot winds destroyed a house on Tasmania's east coast on Friday ahead of a southerly change expected to bring relief.
By Melissa Jenkins | 20 Nov 2009The federal government is considering modelling a new mental health early intervention service on the existing 30 'headspace' centres across Australia.
By Andrew Drummond | 20 Nov 2009Two extra total fire bans for areas of NSW have been issued by the RFS, leaving just three regions free of bans as the state swelters through a heatwave.
By Patrick Caruana and Belinda Cranston | 20 Nov 2009The owner of two exclusive Sydney nightspots facing tough new licensing rules says people are more likely to be struck by lightning than by patrons at his bars.
By Colin Brinsden | 20 Nov 2009The OECD's latest upbeat appraisal of Australia emphasises the importance of a formal trade agreement with China, the federal government says.
By Nick Ralston | 20 Nov 2009NSW Labor MPs and govt officials have been cleared by an inquiry of any wrongdoing surrounding the sale and planning decisions involving land in western Sydney.
By Melissa Iaria | 20 Nov 2009A Melbourne man who strangled his controlling de facto wife in a fit of rage must serve at least 10 years in jail.
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