AAP - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has acknowledged "different perspectives" within the region over his proposal for an Asia Pacific Community (APC) by 2020.

AAP - The next few years will show if Australian track cyclist Shane Perkins really has learnt his hard lessons.

AAP - Wallabies coach Robbie Deans says he won't hesitate to thrust veteran halfback Sam Cordingley into the fray early in Saturday night's Test against France if Luke Burgess continues to struggle

(AAP) The Tasmanian government says it is pleased timber giant Gunns Ltd will not ask it to renew a wood supply guarantee for its proposed Tamar Valley pulp mill.

(AAP) Coaches of Australia's Olympic medallists have become cost-cutting casualties, with officials deciding to axe their funding under the nation's medal incentive scheme.

(AAP) Australia has very little risk of slipping into deflation, given a sharply declining local currency and still high inflation, an expert says.

Australia is facing a front row crisis ahead of Saturday night's World Cup final with the Kangaroos preparations thrown into disarray on Friday when prop Steve Price was ruled out with a torn calf

Australia's new training team in Afghanistan fought Taliban insurgents four times in the last month, including repelling an attack against a remote patrol base manned by Australian and Afghan troop

The opposition has been warned not to prejudice overseas terrorism trials after the federal government received the long-awaited Mohamed Haneef report.

The heartbroken family of a man who drowned with his two young sons has cast flowers
into the sea as their close-knit community struggled to come to terms with the
tragedy.