Новости за 30.07.2015

Janina Harding has traded Melbourne Town Hall for the tropics as artistic director of Cairns Indigenous Art Fair.

I accept that you love coffee. But this constant talk about coffee is becoming a grind, writes Margot Schoonmaker.

Girls allegedly attack student and staff on Brisbane's bayside.

Facebook heading for 1 billion active daily users as it rakes in $4 billion in a quarter.

A Sudanese man who believed he was cursed by his father's new partner has been jailed for five years for stalking and raping his former girlfriend.

The worst-kept secret in Queensland politics has finally been confirmed.

It can't be known whether the higher levels of capital being imposed on banks will be sufficient to protect the financial system from another crisis, says Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens.

Opposition to a new Woolworths at Giralang continues four years after redevelopment approval.

Speaker Bronwyn Bishop will almost certainly face a no-confidence motion when Parliament resumes despite belatedly apologising for chartering a taxpayer funded private helicopter ride, with the opposition dismissing her contrition as too little too late and insincere.

A serial paedophile whose crimes included recording himself sexually abusing children in toy aisles at a Perth department store has been jailed for more than 16 years.

Nick Riewoldt will miss St Kilda's clash with Port Adelaide at Adelaide Oval on Sunday while midfield star David Armitage is in some doubt for the game after missing training on Thursday.

Air-safety investigators say that wreckage, if confirmed to be from MH370, will help piece together the final moments of the jetliner's crash.

John Elkann – the heir to Italy's Fiat, Ferrari and Alfa Romeo empires and a director of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp - has been dragged into the legal dispute between Fiat Chrysler Australia and former chief executive Clyde Campbell.

Four calves, all born healthy. That's one almighty long shot.

Debris that appears to be from a large plane has reportedly been found off the east coast of Africa, raising the possibility it could be from missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370.

Now in its 10th season on Channel 31, highly regarded weekly architecture program Sacred Spaces is turning its focus to the often under-recognised contribution of women to the discipline and discourse.

A man is suing an airline, claiming he got a back injury after being forced to sit next to an obese man.

Centre Pivot, which appears in the Sam Kavanagh charges as one of the horses he allegedly administered to cobalt, has been cleared to return to the races for new trainer John Sargent at Rosehill on Saturday.

A number found on the aircraft part washed up on the shore of Reunion, a French island in the Indian Ocean should be the vital clue that will allow authorities to quickly confirm whether it is part of the doomed Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

John Thompson has several spring options for First Seal, which include the Epsom, Cox Plate and Myer Classic, and she will be one of many stars to use Randwick barrier trial as a starting point on Friday morning.

Marcela Castaneda has been found not guilty of the manslaughter of her fiance Gregory Peck. She successfully argued she acted in self defence when she fatally stabbed him during a fight about cancelling their wedding in 2013.

Brimbank detectives are investigating if the assailants who bashed a man on his way to work - potentially with a baseball bat - before bundling him into the boot of their car mistook him for someone else.

Questions surround the discovery of a piece of aircraft on Reunion Island, now widely believed to have come from the missing Malaysian airliner MH370. Here's what we know so far:

Fresh hopes have been raised on Wednesday that the final resting place of the missing fishing trawler, "Returner", may have been discovered off the Pilbara coast.

Two Gold Coast men have been sentenced to 10 years' jail over a multimillion-dollar investment fraud scam involving hundreds of Australian victims.