ABC OnlineCommissioner rejects calls for changes to discrimination lawsABC OnlineAustralia's Race Discrimination Commissioner has flatly rejected calls for possible changes to the nation's discrimination laws in the wake of the terrorist attacks in France. Federal Government backbencher Senator Cory...

The Australian'No words' for the Chan brother left on the outsideThe AustralianANDREW Chan's older brother, Michael, has flown from Australia to visit him in Bali's Kerobokan prison, as a local controversy flared over whether Chan and Myuran Sukumaran's death sentences should be carried out on the h...

The AgeSt Kilda footballers told to avoid Melbourne beaches amid gruesome sea fleas threatThe AgeSt Kilda football club have told their players to avoid bathing in Brighton beach after a teenager was left with gruesome and bloody ankles when he was apparently bitten by sea fleas while swimming on Sa...

Brisbane TimesQld cops urge caution after 1st road deathNEWS.com.auQld cops urge caution after 1st road death. Australia has recorded its first road fatality of the 2015 Christmas holiday season. A passenger died in a two-car crash on the Bruce Highway, about 20km north of Gin Gin in central Queensl...

Herald SunJohn Faulkner, a veteran of five ministerial portfolios. Source: News Corp AustraliaThe AustralianJOHN Faulkner has cut Labor's last link with the Hawke-Keating era, calling time on a 25-year parliamentary career and vowing to take his secrets with him. Senator Faulkner, the witness in the...

Times of IndiaMurdoch's Sydney siege tweet triggers uproarTimes of IndiaKOLKATA: Rupert Murdoch is at the receiving end again! Celebrities and netizens have taken on media baron Rupert Murdoch for his tweet congratulating one of his publications for its timely coverage of the Sydney terror attack. '...

Perth NowTurnbull's emotional speech praisedPerth NowTHE federal communications minister fought back tears addressing media after attending a memorial Mass at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney on Tuesday - a few blocks from where two hostages and a gunman died only hours before. Mr Turnbull recalled the ...

myGC.com.auGold Coast road rage victim wakes from coma three weeks after attackmyGC.com.auA GOLD Coast man who was left for dead on the side of the Pacific Motorway following a brutal road rage attack last month has reportedly woken from a coma. Brock Prime, 29, was allegedly bludgeoned over the hea...

Sky News AustraliaMan punched, choked during Sydney attackSky News AustraliaA man is recovering in hospital after he was struck by a vehicle then punched, choked and hit with a metal pole in Sydney's southwest. Emergency services were called to a fire trail at Padstow Heights early on Monday morning...

The Daily TelegraphLockdown: The day hate paralysed Sydney's heart and soulThe Daily TelegraphTHE heart of Sydney was placed in terror lockdown yesterday, throwing traffic and public transport into chaos and forcing some of the city's highest profile buildings and organisations to shut their doors. ...

dailytelegraph.com.auPlane talk: Hanson fury at flighting wordsdailytelegraph.com.auAN increasingly desperate Pauline Hanson referenced the slaying of a Queensland policeman less than 24 hours after his fatal shooting as the One Nation leader attempted to deflect allegations of infighting and dodgy ...

ABC OnlineAlleged victim of VIP paedophile ring Martin Allen lived on grounds of Australian ...Newcastle HeraldMartin Allen disappeared in 1979 at the age of 15 and his body has never been found. Photo: http://ukpaedos-exposed.com/. Martin Allen disappeared in 1979 at the age of 15 and his body has ...

Sydney Morning HeraldSonar shark alarm: the latest in a sea of floated swimmer safety solutionsSydney Morning HeraldNewcastle beach closures extend to record seventh day · Mollymook shark attack victim flown to Sydney · Manly beach cleared after shark sightings · Shark alarm goes off at Wanda beach ·...

Driver sought after motorcylist injured9news.com.auA motorcyclist has been seriously injured when he was thrown from his bike while trying to avoid a 4WD in Sydney's south west. Police are searching for the driver of the 4WD, who drove away from the scene of the Bankstown crash on Saturday morning.a...

SBSAustralian women off to be 'jihadi brides' in Syria: reportSBSThe government will work closely with communities and families to prevent young women joining Islamic extremists, Julie Bishop says. Source: AAP. 14 Dec 2014 - 4:16 AM UPDATED 26 MINS AGO ...Julie Bishop disturbed about reports of two ...

Herald SunNo link between suspect and Paris: DuttonHerald SunScreening of EU nationals heading for Australia has been stepped up since the Paris attacks. No link between suspect and Paris: Dutton. Nothing suggests a suspected French extremist who tried to enter Australia with cans of mace was connec...

ABC OnlineMan found fatally injured in Riverwood alleyway after phone box tip-offABC OnlineA man was found fatally injured in an alleyway in Sydney's south-west overnight after police received an anonymous tip-off from a person calling from a phone booth. Rudolf Carino, 19, was found in the middle o...

In the Herald: December 22, 1857Sydney Morning HeraldHaving a try at the diggings. A condition of being granted tickets-of-leave for good behaviour was that convicts not "sojourn" at any of the goldfields. "Yet the fellows will have a try at the diggings," wrote a Melbourne correspondent. "The conse...

The Australian Financial ReviewElection 2016: Andrew Wilkie to keep pressing for Iraq War inquiryThe Australian Financial ReviewGeorge W. Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Australian prime minister John Howard. Gerald Herbert. Phillip Coorey. Share on twitter. by Phillip Coor...

Sydney Morning HeraldPenny Wong and Cory Bernardi to face-off over same-sex marriage in National ...Sydney Morning HeraldThey're two of the Parliament's fiercest voices on same-sex marriage. One is a passionate advocate of marriage equality, the other a staunch defender of the status quo. Now Labor ...

The Sydney Morning Herald'A dark cloud has finally been lifted': Country Fire Authority legislation passes SenateThe Sydney Morning HeraldThe Turnbull government struck a blow against unions and scored a key tactical victory when its reforms targeted at the Victorian Country Fire Authority passed th...

Brisbane TimesLone actors hard to stop: PoliceBrisbane TimesQueenslanders will see almost more blue than red and green this Christmas period, with "every available" police officer ordered onto patrols, but Commissioner Ian Stewart has admitted authorities have very little chance of guarding against ...

ABC OnlineKingswood double shooting in Adelaide believed to be drug-related: policeABC OnlineAn overnight shooting in Adelaide that left two men hospitalised is believed to be drug-related. Police said between two to five shots were fired outside a house in Eynesbury Avenue in the southern suburb of...

Herald SunHuman remains found in hunt for missing Malmsbury woman believed to have ...Herald SunTHE family of a woman whose remains are suspected of being found near a creekbed on a Victorian farm just 3km from her home has described the two years since her disappearance as a “nightmare”...

Sydney Morning HeraldWoman shot through door in Auburn is Lola Hamzy, mother of Brothers 4 Life ...Sydney Morning HeraldThe mother of Brothers 4 Life founder Bassam Hamzy was shot through the front door of her home in Sydney's west overnight. Police said a woman, 57, was shot in the stomach when bul...