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A landmark report looking at the state of the world's tropics predicts Australia's tropical zone will expand by about 200 kilometres every 25 years.

Fraudsters stole the identity of Australia’s military head to scam unsuspecting women out of money through cyber romances.

Amnesty International says Australian man Pham Trung Dung, who has been sentenced to death in Vietnam, may be given an unknown cocktail of drugs.

Rolf Harris will likely be jailed when he is sentenced on Friday. Meanwhile, further allegations against the disgraced entertainer come to light as his honours are purged.

An asylum-seeker detained at the Manus Island refugee camp is suing the Australian government and its outsourced security company after a riot in February left the man with severe head trauma.

Revelations of terrible abuse at Salvation Army homes in the 1960s and 1970s have affected public generosity towards the church's fundraising efforts.

Australian not-for-profit groups with a tech-savvy bright idea for making the world a better place could win some serious tech support from Google.

A former Marist Brother head has denied to an inquiry that his role was to conceal rather than expose abuse.

The RBA is closely watching the debate raging over the budget with its monthly board meeting scheduled for Tuesday.

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison continues to refuse to reveal if an asylum seeker boat, or two, have been intercepted off Christmas Island

A woman claims she was working at a party for Michael Parkinson in 2005 when Rolf Harris groped her in front of his wife Alwen.

Rolf Harris has been handed 12 unanimous guilty verdicts following in his trial over indecently assaulting four girls in Britain between 1968 and 1986.

Jurors in the Rolf Harris trial are continuing their deliberations for an eighth day as the entertainer waits in court for the verdicts.

The Australian Labor party says the government's assertions that the welfare system is unsustainable are exaggerated.

Damion Baston has been portrayed in a US court as a violent pimp who turned beautiful Australian and New Zealand women into prostitutes.

Two prominent journalists representing media and human rights bodies have delivered a plea to the Egyptian consulate requesting Peter Greste be set free.

Online reports say that Apple is looking for language engineers who are experts on ‘Australian English’ (or Strine - as we like to call it) to assist with the programming of their voice activated application Siri.

A representative of Aboriginal delegates expressed their delight in having the remains of an ancestor returned to Australia from Chicago's Field Museum in Chicago.

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) proposes that cigarettes sales should be permanently banned to those born in the 2000’s while the British Medical Association (BMA) passed the motion this week.

The price of abolishing the carbon tax might be keeping Australia's car enthusiasts happy.

A week after first retiring to consider its verdict, the jury in Rolf Harris's child sex abuse trial has come back to the judge with questions.

Clive Palmer and former US vice-president Al Gore presented as an odd couple but they had nothing but admiration for each other as they talk over carbon tax and emissions trading scheme.

SPECIAL REPORT | Rupert Murdoch’s ‘The Australian’ has been accused of conspiring with Big Tobacco to dissuade the UK and Ireland from introducing plain packaging legislation, with an apparently ‘misleading’ report claiming Australia’s landmark laws are failing.

A British national, only known as Natalie, told reporters of her terrifying ordeal as she was driven into the Outback by a mysterious unnamed Australian and ‘left for dead’ in the same place where the Wolf Creek horror movie was filmed.

The Abbott government accepts the UN's rejection of its application to remove 74,000 hectares of forest from Tasmania's World Heritage Area.

The jury in the UK trial of Rolf Harris is set to return for a fourth day of deliberations.

PM Tony Abbott says the government will talk "calmly, patiently and reasonably" with the Egyptian government about the conviction of Peter Greste.

Jihadi recruitment video features a British national and another man believed to be a radical Australian.

The Abbott government has dismissed reports that the four pillars banking policy is at risk as Labor says any change would be irresponsible.

Tony Abbott warns that nobody should underestimate the threat posed by terrorists bearing down on the Iraqi capital as it is revealed that a small contingent of Australian troops have already been sent to 'bolster security' at the embassy there.

An Australian funeral director endured a 4 hour-long road trip with a portly body in her hearse. Her hefty companion then had to spend the night in her hearse after a morgue turned her away saying he would not fit in their fridge.

Julian Assange used the second anniversary of his entering the Ecuador's embassy in London to attack both the US and Australian governments.

The Rolf Harris jury has been told not to give undue weight to a Channel 7 make-up artist's claim that the entertainer was known as "the octopus".

A poll conducted by the Lowy Institute claims that Australia and the UK are no longer best mates. While Brits are still on our Christmas card lists we are actually chumming up with the Yanks.

Westminster Abbey in London will soon be the permanent home of a kangaroo engraved stone commemorating Arthur Phillip.

While the Abbott government struggles to get support for a GP co-payment, nurses in the UK will debate whether Britain should introduce such a charge.

Leonardo DiCaprio has spoken of the devastation he's witnessed on the Great Barrier Reef, as the World Heritage Committee meets to consider its status.

Linguistic experts believe Britons are turning up their noses at typical Australian slang like barbies, tinnies and sunnies.

Treasurer Joe Hockey is not worried about the latest opinion poll, saying the government was elected to fix the economy.

Defence lawyer Simon Ray claims the prosecution in Rolf Harris's child sex trial set out "with vigour and enthusiasm" to destroy the artist's reputation.

Julie Bishop will meet Islamic ambassadors in an attempt to calm tensions over Canberra's decision to change its terminology on East Jerusalem.

As militants rampage through Iraq, the Muslim community in Australia waits, wanting to help and confused about what is happening in their homeland.

Astounding research results have confirmed that SAHMTI and the University of Adelaide’s Centre for Personalized Cancer Medicine have come up with valuable information about the treatment of leukaemia.

After serving in Timor Leste as part of the country’s UN mission, three Australian soldiers decided to take on a scourge that targets some of the planet’s most vulnerable citizens.

Defence and trade have dominated the first leader-level meeting between Tony Abbott and Barack Obama.

There are 90 Australians registered as being in Iraq as the country reels from a full-blown assault from an Islamist terror group.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott and US President Barack Obama have discussed climate change and energy efficiency in their talks at the White House.

Hours after a 14 year-old fires shots at an American school President Barack Obama congratulates Australia on its guns policy.

As an extensive search in the Western Australian bushland ends positively for a British national who went 'walk about' during a music festival police have started a search for the second missing Brit.

An Australian law requiring all tobacco products to be packaged in plain packaging - to discourage the purchase of tobacco products - has resulted in legal battles while an increase in sales of tobacco products has been recorded.