JULIA Gillard has declared the fight for equal pay has "not been won" as unions launch a push to audit women's pay.

THE Australian stockmarket is expected to take another hammering this morning after big losses on US markets triggered more worries about the strength of the US economy.

KEVIN Rudd has warned that fighting inflation will cause pain for families as the Government prepares to release research showing mortgage stress in Australia is reaching critical levels.

ASA chief says the two top corporate regulators are not tough enough in their crackdown on disclosure obligations on margin loans.

Canberra, Jakarta in talks over CorbyCould serve the rest of her sentence in AustraliaThree of the Bali Nine could also come home

QUEENSLAND'S Children's Commissioner is calling on the Anglican Church to "show they have done enough" to protect children at a controversial Brisbane parish, which contains a convicted pedophile priest, an alleged pedophile and a practising priest with his own seedy

A ROAMING dog mauled a Wavell Heights woman walking her pet in the northern Brisbane suburb yesterday.

HIV infection rates to soarLinked to STIs and reduced condom useAll the latest Health & Lifestyle news

RATES of HIV infection will jump 75 per cent in Victoria and significantly increase in Queensland in the next seven years if current trends continue, a new report predicts.

A MAN has been crushed to death under a car he was repairing in Melbourne's southwest today.

CLASHES between protesters, Gunns and police over the miill in the Tamar Valley is expected to be bitter, angry and ugly.

TASMANIAN thieves have stolen at least $5.4 million in the past five years to feed a gambling habit.

A SENIOR Liberal Tasmanian senator says he has family links to a Nazi war criminal.

BOB Brown rose to international fame amid the mud, mosquitoes, squalor and rare beauty of the Franklin River in Tasmania's remote southwest exactly 25 years ago.

ECONOMIC growth in Australia could struggle to reach three per cent over the next decade, well short of expectations, new research has found.

Current and dual World Women’s Motocross Champion, Katherine Prumm, 19, is jetting her way into Brisbane to contest the opening round of the Motul/ Australian Women’s National Championship on March...

15:09 : There was a police car and fire engine at the hardware store when we drove past this morning

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