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Immigration Minister Brendan O'Connor has launched an inquiry into how seven men were able to escape from a remote Queensland detention centre.

Hazel Hawke is being remembered with great fondness by both sides of politics in Western Australia, where she was born and raised.

Dramatic footage has emerged allegedly showing NSW Police officers punching and kneeing two men who appear to offer no resistance as they are arrested in a western Sydney park.

Comments from Tony Abbott and Peter Costello show the Liberals' arrogance over an election win is getting out of control, says Julia Gillard.

Police find evidence of illegal alcohol sales at a Hells Angels clubhouse in Sydney.

The Australian Retailers Association (ARA) has called for a GST review and lower wages to cut down on the 'horrifically high' cost of doing business.

The federal government has urged Ford to chip in to an assistance package for workers and their families.

Julia Gillard says Australians held Hazel Hawke in high esteem and will be saddened by her death.

A bikie gang member has been charged after police searches of two homes on the Gold Coast turned up drugs and a loaded gun.

Police fear homemade guns will turn up soon on the streets of NSW.