Новости за 30.12.2015

By Paul Cashmere

In New York you can feel a sense of belonging within minutes of arriving, whereas in Sydney it might take years to realise your rightful place.

It is clearer than ever that the union-linked Labor Party of 2015 can never argue for fairness and good governance while the union sore festers.

Girl hit submerged object while skiing north-west of Brisbane.

A man has died after a suspected heart attack caused him to crash the car he was driving in Townsville.

Australia's most notorious conman Peter Foster has been raided by police over allegations he plotted to murder a private investigator who uncovered more than $11 million that Foster had hidden from victims of a failed online gambling business.

From Australia and overseas, some of the well-known faces, high achievers and celebrities who left us this year. RIP.

On Christmas Eve, a little boy with only one eye was given a present that made his mother cry.

The trade union Royal Commission has referred Victorian MP Cesar Melhem and former union boss Kathy Jackson to prosecutors for possible charges, and concluded unions are riddled with "widespread" and "deep-seated" misconduct.

The mother of a Perth man removed from a plane bound for the United States on Sunday believes he was discriminated against because he has a similar name to a known Islamic militant leader.

Socceroos skipper Mile Jedinak didn't want a bar of Patrick Bamford's excuses when the young Chelsea striker departed Crystal Palace.

The uncle of a drowned Syrian toddler whose death shook the world has arrived in Canada with his family to start a new life.

There are calls for former prime minister Tony Abbott to return to the frontbench in a reshuffle prompted by the dumping of two ministers.

Bath head coach Mike Ford has reversed his support of Sam Burgess by stating that he should never have made the England 2015 World Cup squad.

Slow-moving rain-band providing much-needed relief to regions.

There's good news for the hundreds of thousands of people expected to flock to harbourside vantage points for Sydney's New Year's Eve fireworks frolic.

If money was no object, and you could pick any property to hole up in and watch the the sky light up as the clock ticks over - which would it be? Here are our picks.

Peter Siddle and Josh Hazlewood's hopes of playing in the Sydney Test will be more apparent on Friday but Australia coach Darren Lehmann won't be resting anybody.

A man has died in a parachuting accident at Goulburn during the city's first skydiving festival.

The West Indies showed some fight in the final days of the second Test at the MCG, taking it late into the fourth day before Australia was able to clinch a result. Here's a look at some of the numbers that mattered from this year's Boxing Day Test.

Perhaps this is the Sydney of foreigners' imaginations: a city in which wallabies sprint down streets in busy suburbs.

Andrew Holden reflects on four decades in Wye as he visits his family's burnt-out holiday house

Royal commission says two ACT construction union officials could be prosecuted for breaching workplace laws.

Former trade union boss turned Victorian MP Cesar Melhem has been referred by the unions royal commission to Victorian prosecutors for consideration of possible corruption and false accounting charges.