SYDNEY (AAP) - A string of eight shootings in seven days in western Sydney has prompted Premier Barry O'Farrell to urge fearful victims to speak to police before someone is hurt or killed.

SYDNEY (AAP) - A 14-year-old boy accused of murdering a man with a machete in a neighbourhood dispute will fight the charges, a children's court has heard.

SYDNEY (AAP) - Trade unions are demanding the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) cut interest rates to ease the crippling impact of a strong Australian dollar on the manufacturing sector, saying the 1

SYDNEY (AAP) - More remains have been taken from the scene of a house fire that killed 11 family members near Brisbane.

SYDNEY (AAP) - Penrith officials insist it's business as usual despite a war erupting over stinging comments from the departing captain of the NRL club, Petero Civoniceva.

SYDNEY (AAP) - Wests Tigers chief executive Stephen Humphreys says he sees no need for Benji Marshall to change his off-field ways after an assault charge against the NRL star was thrown out in cou

SYDNEY (AAP) - Another home has been shot at in Sydney's west, making it the seventh shooting in six days, but the occupants have chosen not to co-operate with police.

SYDNEY (AAP) - The federal government has called on the services of Labor stalwart Peter Beattie to help lift the nation's manufacturing sector out of its malaise.

SYDNEY (AAP) - Mining giant BHP Billiton's record annual profit shows why the federal parliament should back the government's proposed mineral resources rent tax, Treasurer Wayne Swan says.

SYDNEY (AAP) - A neighbourhood dispute appears to have sparked a fatal assault in Melbourne's outer east.