Новости за 26.08.2015

An injury to Grace Harris' Queensland teammate, and fellow Twenty20 thrasher, Delissa Kimmince has resulted in the 21-year-old no longer spending the winter working in her hospital job and doing pre-season training and instead joining the Southern Stars' squad in England for the women's Ashes.

The corporate cop must have more money independent of the government because it is busiest when governments are cutting back, financial system inquiry head David Murray says.

Former Wests Tiger prop Bryce Gibbs has suggested coach Jason Taylor return "to the under 13s development squad" as the bad blood between Taylor and Farah escalates.

Wallabies second rowers Will Skelton and Kane Douglas were sent to the sidelines today by coach Michael Cheika after a heated and physical exchange as opponents in a driving maul at training.

In one of Melbourne's largest inner-city land deals, local Chinese media powerhouse Tommy Jiang has put his foot on the former Bradmill denim factory in Yarraville for more than $160 million.

What's in a name? If you're the newly created Australian Border Force, the answer is about $10 million – splashed on military-style uniforms and thousands of signs at airports and detention centres to create a fresh, hardline image.

Brisbane Lions coach Justin Leppitsch has given his strongest indication yet that the club's efforts to lure a key forward from another club were unlikely to succeed, and that the club was now relying on the draft to fix its long-term issues at either end of the field.

Air New Zealand has accused rival Qantas Airways of acting like "Air Sydney" due to its relative lack of trans-Pacific flights from other Australian cities.

Movie actors are notoriously well-paid for their work, but a new Forbes list shows television actors can also make a killing on the small screen.

The trip from a hotel room to Brisbane Airport will become a lot shorter for some visitors from 2017, with work beginning on two new hotels adjacent to the domestic terminal long-term car park.

Supermarket home brand foods, long derided as cheap and inferior, contain far lower levels of salt than pricier, branded rivals, new research shows.

Ordinary Australians don't care much for the endless calls for reform coming from politicians and economists, but they do want economic growth to provide jobs, prosperity, and long-term security for their families, Glenn Stevens has told policy makers in Sydney.

Australians are "sleepwalking into a real mess", facing the equivalent of a recession in the next ten years as income growth looking far lower than officially forecast, the National Reform Summit has been told.

Skinhead group has been distributing hate material in Melbourne playgrounds, outraging parents whose young children have discovered the material.

Homicide detectives have been called in after the body of a two-year-old girl was found at a Mildura house.

How China's economic makeover has unraveled to trigger a $11 billion global stock market rout.

A former NSW police worker has been found guilty of making false sex assault claims against her prison guard ex-boyfriend

Not even the big banks are safe from the market rout.

A man who was fatally struck by a van while standing on the road mooning traffic was "the author of his own misfortune", a coroner says.

If you're suffering with the flu, or taking care of a child who has, you're not alone.

X-ray machine 'knowingly' used on soldiers for up to four years after failing a compliance test.

The famous chef's plan to snoop on customers is part of an insidious trend to sell you more by probing your personal data.

A man accused of murdering his friend in a gruesome stabbing on the Gold Coast "grabbed the knife and went bang", a court has heard.

A supermarket cashier by day and leather-clad rocker at night, Ricki isn't a rock'n'roll free spirit, she's a George W. Bush voter.

In many respects, Neil Armfield's Holding the Man feels like a late contribution to the Australian tradition of "heritage cinema" established some 40 years ago: the careful period re-creations, the sensitive treatment of budding sexuality, and the strategically-placed punchlines, as well as the jumps in time and the touches of heavy-handed symbolism.