Embattled South Australian Opposition Leader Martin Hamilton-Smith has called for a second vote on the Liberal Party leadership despite winning a first ballot.
A rescue helicopter has picked up three people from a stranded recreational fishing trawler off Queensland's coast, 80km southeast of Mackay.
None of the houses promised for remote indigenous communities in 2007 as part of the Northern Territory Intervention has been built.
A 20-year-old man has died in a house fire in Victoria's northwest.
A first-year female police constable has been injured after a glass bottle was thrown at her at Bundaberg, 280km north of Brisbane.
A man has thrown rocks at a convenience store worker in western Sydney before running off with a cash register, police say.
A man has threatened a woman with a knife and robbed her inside a shopping centre toilet in Melbourne's northwest.
A man charged over a fatal brawl at Sydney airport has briefly faced court.
A 25-year-old Sydney man has been charged with kidnapping a German tourist, who was allegedly threatened with a knife and robbed of his credit cards.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will have an audience with the Pope next week when he travels to Europe to take part in crucial talks on climate change.
The cost of child care is expected to increase if recommendations being considered by the federal government are adopted.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has promised to match funds raised by Australia's Italian community to help victims of the earthquake that devastated Italy in April.
Migaloo, the celebrity white whale, is expected to be cruising off the Sunshine Coast over the weekend.
Four fairy penguins have been fatally mauled by a dog on Sydney's northern beaches, devastating local volunteers who work to protect them.