Doctor shortage woes require national fix: report
Posted on 19 January, 2006
The Productivity Commission has recommended an overhaul of Australia's health workforce to help overcome shortages of medical professionals.
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'No time to lose' in bird flu fight
Posted on 18 January, 2006
Bird flu experts meeting in Beijing warn there is no time to lose in battling a disease that has killed almost 80 people since 2003.
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Call for swift appointment of new WA leader
Posted on 17 January, 2006
The Labor party in Western Australia has been urged to move quickly to appoint a new leader, following yesterday's shock resignation of the state's Premier Geoff Gallop.
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Inquiry to examine companies' links to Iraq
Posted on 16 January, 2006
Public hearings will start today into the role of three Australian companies in the Iraqi oil for food program.
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Hajj pilgrimage stampede kills hundreds
Posted on 13 January, 2006
At least 345 people have been trampled to death and 300 injured during a stampede at the annual hajj Muslim pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
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Egypt crash victims named
Posted on 12 January, 2006
Five of the six victims of yesterday's bus crash in Egypt have been identified, as family members and colleagues of the Australian tourist group make their way to Cairo.
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PM's brother entangled in tree dispute
Posted on 11 January, 2006
The Prime Minister's brother, Stan Howard, will be prosecuted for chopping down up to 70 endangered trees on his property at Bowral in the southern New South Wales highlands.
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Australian Caldecott killed in Dakar Rally
Posted on 10 January, 2006
Motorcyclist Andy Caldecott, from Keith, South Australia, was killed overnight during the ninth stage of the Dakar rally, as the famous race was once more plunged into mourning for the death of a competitor.
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Defence payout for equipment design plagiarism
Posted on 9 January, 2006
The Department of Defence has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation to a Victorian company after one of the department's divisions plagiarised a company's clothing designs.
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Seven, Ten win AFL rights
Posted on 6 January, 2006
The AFL has announced that channels Seven and Ten have been handed the rights to broadcast matches for five years from the 2007 season, in the richest TV deal ever seen in Australian sport.
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Fears hundreds buried in landslide
Posted on 5 January, 2006
At least 300 people in an Indonesian village in central Java have probably been buried and killed by a landslide, according to the United Nations.
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Natural disaster declared in wake of NSW bushfires
Posted on 4 January, 2006
In New South Wales, the bushfire-affected areas of the central coast and Junee in the state's south have been declared natural disasters, qualifying local residents for extra financial assistance.
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Govt considers scrapping FTA drug safeguard
Posted on 3 January, 2006
The acting Prime Minister Mark Vaile says the Government will consider reviewing a Labor amendment in the US Free Trade Agreement (FTA) designed to protect drug prices in Australia.
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Volunteer dies as bushfire fight continues
Posted on 2 January, 2006
A St John's Ambulance volunteer has died after helping residents evacuate from homes threatened by bushfires on the New South Wales central coast last night.
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Pixel sales generate student millions
Posted on 30 December, 2005
A British student has earned a cool million dollars in four months by selling pixels on the Internet.
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Mundine quits PM's Indigenous council
Posted on 29 December, 2005
The incoming national president of the Australian Labor Party, Warren Mundine, has resigned from the Federal Government's Aboriginal advisory body.
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Wild Oats breaks Sydney-Hobart record
Posted on 28 December, 2005
Wild Oats broke the Sydney to Hobart race record to claim line honours in the bluewater classic this morning.
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Kerry Packer dies
Posted on 27 December, 2005
Australia's wealthiest man, Kerry Packer, has died at the age of 68.
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Wild Oats leads fleet out of Sydney
Posted on 26 December, 2005
Race favourite Wild Oats has led the fleet out of the Heads in the 61st Sydney to Hobart yacht race.
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ADF may relax health tests
Posted on 23 December, 2005
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) is considering relaxing its health tests for officer recruits.
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