Catholic pilgrims and the public will be able to buy papal mementos after Sydney's archbishop gave his blessing to indulging in "a little commercialism".

Ricky Ponting will visit a specialist about his injured wrist next week after being ruled out of Australia's final two one-day games against the West Indies.

(AAP)- Governments are not acting fast enough to reduce carbon emissions, hundreds of protesters have heard at a climate change rally in Melbourne.

(AAP) - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the Murray-Darling Basin shows what will happen if society buries its head in the sand rather than act over climate change.

(AAP) - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the Murray-Darling Basin shows what will happen if society buries its head in the sand rather than act over climate change.

(AAP) - Embattled federal Labor MP Belinda Neal says she has a good chance of obtaining preselection for the 2010 federal election despite reports suggesting the party would not choose her again.

(AAP) - Hawthorn star Brad Sewell could be forced to spend another round on the AFL sidelines after he had his appendix removed this week.

(AAP) - The lower lakes of the River Murray will become an environmental, economic and social disaster, key stakeholders say.

(AAP) - The federal opposition has seized on comments by a former diplomat who says Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's plan for an Asian union is "dead in the water".

(AAP) - Australia is the most over-governed nation on Earth and reforms should include abolishing the states, Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon says.