Новости за 18.01.2019

Cash is up for grabs in the Twenty20 finals to rekindle memories of the Australian one-day competition's glory days.

Mining giant Rio Tinto ramped up its shipments of iron ore from WA's Pilbara region in 2018 and expects to export even larger quantities in the year ahead.

A male driver was transported to Canberra Hospital after the truck rolled over on Friday afternoon.

Politicians from all levels of government have moved to condemn the brutal death of Israeli student Aiia Maasarwe.

He's caught co-captain Josh Hodgson's eye as the Canberra Raiders player to watch and Corey Horsburgh has set his sights on making his NRL debut this year.

A 20-year-old man has been arrested over the brutal, opportunistic killing of Israeli student Aiia Maasarwe in Melbourne's north.

The Department of Parks and Wildlife have closed the park from today until January 21 due to a severe fire danger rating. They urge everyone to avoid the area.

Keith Jarrett's La Fenice, Steve Gunn's The Unseen in Between, Sharon Van Etten's Remind Me Tomorrow, Halcyon's From the Hungry Waiting Country, Joe O'Connor Trio with Scott Tinkler's Confrontations, Maggie Rogers' Heard It in a Past Life.

How to create 16 cannon shots without firing a single cannon? Sydney Symphony Orchestra and pyrotechnician Peter McGill know all the tricks.

A 64-year-old Victorian woman charged over a crash which killed four women on their way home from a night of line dancing has been directed to stand trial before a jury.

The value of Marianna Tolo's support network can never be understated.

Police have released terrifying vision of a group of masked men in a vehicle chasing two men in another car through Perth's streets.

Casualty taken to Canberra Hospital after "freak" accident

50 years ago today, world boxing champion Lionel Edmund Rose was named Australian of the Year. The shy 20-year-old was the first Indigenous Australian to win the award.

ACT Fire & Rescue crews attended the Bucknel Circuit home about 9.40am.

Bernard Tomic has denied threatening Lleyton Hewitt and his family, calling Australia's Davis Cup captain a "liar" after Hewitt's extraordinary allegations of physical threats and blackmail on Thursday night.

The Nationals polled residents in the south coast seat of Gilmore ahead of a potential tilt by former state MP Katrina Hodgkinson.

There are calls to overhaul drinking water guidelines after a troubling new study suggested a weedkiller found in Australia’s waterways could be harming male fertility by reducing sperm counts.

British ultra runner Jasmin Paris became the first woman to win the 431-kilometre Montane Spine Race, and did so while expressing breast milk for her daughter.

Jock Serong's novel is based on a true story, the wreck of the Sydney Cove.

I soon twigged that The Girl on the Page is not so much a satire as an increasingly dark morality tale.

There's some truth in Oscar Wilde's remark that he put his genius into his life and only his talent into his work. Matthew Sturgis' new biography is a compelling account of that life.

Tennis players want ever more money, so the winner of one tournament will stagger on to the next where the winner is often not the best but the least exhausted.

Prior to Federation, Irish-born residents made up about 25 per cent of the total European presence, yet they were not immune from real or rhetorical prejudice based on racism and sectarianism.

The secret of aviator Charles Kingsford Smith's success was his capacity to identify completely with his craft, the famous Southern Cross – his "Old Bus".