Новости за 20.04.2016

Voters in marginal seats across NSW are set to abandon the federal government over its refusal to fund the final two years of Gonski funding, a new poll has revealed.

Join Kyle Mackey-Laws, Chris 'Blocka' Dutton and David Polkinghorne as they debate this week's big issues in Canberra sport.

Emergency crews have rescued an injured worker who spent nearly three hours trapped in a construction pit in Epping.

The Storm want to beat the Warriors at AAMI Park on Monday night.

A Shenton Park business owner says she is perplexed by an irate local who stormed into her premises and described a sign featuring the word "nipple" as "obscene."

From the prison yard to the footy field - how rugby league is helping Acura 'Junior' Niuqila find redemption.

There is now a whole film about Richard Nixon practically being held hostage by Elvis. And it's not very good.

Canberra Raiders half Aidan Sezer wants to improve everything ahead of the Wests Tigers clash.

Canberra Raiders looking to shore up their leaky defence against Wests Tigers.

Australia needs bans on plastic bags, microbeads and container deposit schemes, a senate inquiry has recommended.

An ACT prisoner has been charged after escaping from custody while receiving treatment at the Canberra Hospital's mental health unit on Tuesday morning.

Despite no reported sightings of black cats or accidental strolls under ladder, luck has not not been kind to a Melbourne Vixens team that has lost one starting shooter to season-ending knee surgery and the other to a foot injury from which no return date has been set. But coach Simone McKinnis is not dwelling on the misfortune so much as using the ill-timed bye week to build on the progress already made.

The completed $46 million expansion of the National Capital Private Hospital was unveiled on Wednesday, with 42 new beds, three new operating theatres and 100 extra jobs.

It's often claimed Australia's financial regulation is world-beating, but we also hold some more dubious honours in this area.

A male pedestrian has reportedly died after a horror collision involving an ambulance in Flemington.

LNP MP Stephen Bennett could face the Parliamentary Ethics Committee over allegations he leaked information from a parliamentary committee draft report to the Queensland Resources Council.

When chips are down it's time to buy, just look at the Qantas chairman.

A one-time Gold Coast sex worker likened to the mythological beauty Helen of Troy, has been found guilty of murdering her partner.

Michelle Bridges is facing strong backlash after the celebrity trainer made inflammatory comments about fat people.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton quicken their stride towards the presidential  nomination for the Republican and Democratic parties respectively on the back of convincing victories in primary ballots in New York.

Beefing up ASIC and reviewing the Financial Ombudsman Service is welcome, but it is not enough.

I thought we'd be there by now, but it's 2016 and we're still so far from equality.

A bushfire burning out of control is threatening communities in Victoria's south-west.

A truckie who may have tried to fake his own death to avoid court after fatally striking a tow truck worker in an emergency lane has been jailed.