Новости за 20.08.2015

Next week is Hearing Awareness Week, and the cochlear implant is being promoted as a potentially life-changing device for those with hearing loss.

NSW's ski resorts have had a late-winter boost with blue skies, cold temperatures and big snow dumps.

Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey can learn from the Baird government's approach.

That a major political party is desperate to discredit an investigation which is uncovering wrongdoing is depressing.

Extremist in his view of judicial independence, Dyson Heydon's decision on Friday will resonate widely

The Mantach name is well known in Tasmanian Liberal Party circles. Damien Mantach, the former Victorian Liberal Party director accused of embezzling $1.5 million, followed his father Brian into the party hierarchy.

Cutting the company tax rate by five percentage points and a shift to more efficient taxes could boost GDP by about 1 one per cent.

The story of Rhyce Shaw's renaissance at Sydney is the perfect example why the Swans are fighting so hard to overturn the AFL's trade restrictions.

The WA by-election will be a tough one but, it presents the PM with an unlikely opportunity.

A fifth case of measles in as many weeks at Brisbane's largest university sparks fear, with hundreds of students potentially exposed in a single lecture.

If you were a psychiatrist and a chronically depressed patient told you he wanted to die, what would you do?

The Australian women's cricket team have claimed a 25-run win over Ireland in the first Twenty20 international of their three-match series in Dublin.

Irish recruit Roy O'Donovan bagged a brace in the first six minutes as the Central Coast Mariners beat Gungahlin United 3-1 on Thursday night.

Scratchies could be sold at Canberra petrol stations under a deal that has caught the ACT government flat-footed and left newsagents throughout the capital afraid for their future.

From Shakespeare's The Tempest to comedy with Dave Hughes and Dylan Moran and music with Hiatus Kaiyote, we have your weekend covered.

Media personality Brent Zerafa is the latest person to be charged in relation to the on-going cobalt inquiry into the Sam Kavanagh stable on Thursday.

Lance Franklin is out but that's only the start of the woes for Sydney, who have been hit hard by injuries on the eve of their stoush with cross town rival Greater Western Sydney.

David Marsh was the last District Commissioner in Papua New Guinea and was passionate about the country and its people.

After the cast of supervilain flick Suicide Squad were spotted inking each other with matching tattoos on Wednesday, we had a look at famous cast mates who immortalised their bonds.

Steve Price's headline-grabbing sparring match with Waleed Aly on The Project on Wednesday night was only the latest in a string of controversies of the show.

Away from the ever-present spotlight and scrutiny, Dan Carter seriously doubted he would get another crack at World Cup glory.

Free-trade agreement or not, tonnes of Australian goods are getting into China every week thanks to a rapidly growing informal export market undercutting Australia Post. Free trade agreement or not, this is how tonnes of Australian goods are getting into China every week.

A teenage boy has died in Swan Districts Hospital on Thursday afternoon after being hit by car at the intersection of Roe Highway and Kalamunda Road in Maida Vale.

It is the telephone call every member of the Wallaby squad has longed for since the season began.

Some of the nation's biggest private training colleges have been revealed to graduate disturbingly few students while receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in government subsidies.