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The federal government has backed continued support for the car industry as the opposition again blames the carbon tax for its problems.

The Wirrlu-Murra Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation says it didn't authorise a land use deal between Rio Tinto and YAC in WA's Pilbara.

Former NSW MP Ian Macdonald is invited to a parliamentary committee hearing investigating why documents shown in ICAC weren't provided to government.

The NSW oppostition says the environment minister has been denied access to a report into the state's hunting oversight body to keep Shooters MPs happy.

Tasmanian politician Michael Hodgman was respected across the political spectrum.

Images have been shown at a WA inquest depicting an untidy and unhygienic house where a three-year-old boy died in a washing machine.

Aboriginal women participating in a women's leadership program in Canberra say they feel empowered to use their voices back home.

Treasurer Wayne Swan has highlighted the comparisons between Australia and the G8 economies that met in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.

More people were forced flee their homes each day in 2012 than the total number of people seeking asylum in Australia in the entire year, a UN report says.