Новости за 06.08.2015

Labor frontbencher Tony Burke says his family's $12,000 business class trip to Uluru was "beyond community expectations" but is standing by the claim, although he will repay $90 in travel expenses he claimed to attend a Robbie Williams concert.

Australians face their best chance of finding work since the election of the Abbott government in 2013 following a pickup in the jobs market.

Iron ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland fell in July from a record a month earlier.

The owner of Hugo's in Kings Cross has promised a "Mabo-like" battle to the High Court to secure compensation for up to 35 business owners in the wake of controversial lockout laws in the suburb.

David Koch's dramatic on-air resignation as head of the Organ and Tissue Authority was sparked by a minister seeking to pre-empt news reports critical of Australia's rate of organ donations.

Former No.1 draft pick Jonathon Patton will return to play for Greater Western Sydney after a year on the sidelines with an injury.

Channel Nine's reality cooking show The Hotplate will stay on the air – for now at least – after the Federal Court rejected an injunction attempt by rival network Channel Seven, which claimed it was a rip-off of My Kitchen Rules.

Revelations about former Howard minister Helen Coonan's multiple board roles raise questions about a potential conflict between private and public interest

Australia came into the Trent Bridge Test needing to make history, as the first team in almost 80 years to overturn a 1:2 Ashes deficit. Within one session they made history for a contrasting reason: crumbling for 60 in what became the shortest first innings of a match in Test history.

Australians have been warned that all mobile phone and email communications are constantly vulnerable to being hacked by "foreign adversaries".

Cronulla Sharks prop will be free to play in NRL finals after suspension is backdated to time of incident.

A planned two-minute chat with Australia's biggest racehorse owner Gerry Harvey invariably turns into a marathon but that's the way things are when the businessman gets talking about his favourite passion - the thoroughbred.

We haven't come a long way since 2013 when Sydney Swans player Adam Goodes was called an "ape" by a 13-year-old girl.

The University of Western Sydney has chosen a new name - and students aren't happy about it.

Malaysian aviation experts are confident that a window and other debris found on the remote Indian Ocean island of Reunion in the past few days are from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

Former Newcastle Liberal candidate Karen Howard has apologised for calling a year 11 student's geography assignment "appalling" and "a waste of time".

Twelve of the dead were members from a state security unit. They were praying when the bomber struck.

With feet burning cold and fingers already numb, the meaning of every slap, stomp, smack and jab felt fuller – and the purpose of every action more clear.

The US makes its strongest condemnation of China's expansion of artificial islands, saying movement across the waters is an 'intrinsic right'.

An Afghan military helicopter crashed on Thursday, killing all 17 on board, officials said.

Hopes have faded of finding survivors of the latest Mediterranean boat tragedy, in which an estimated 200 migrants drowned, as rescue ships were called to the aid of more migrant boats in the same area on Thursday.

The federal government is resisting desperate calls for it to move faster on creating new investment vehicles to let investment managers capitalise on the liberalisation of funds management trade in Asia.

Women's leading menopause health concern is not osteoporosis, but hot flushes and weight control, mood swings and night sweats, despite research showing Australian women need to take their bone health more seriously or risk losing up to 10 per cent of their skeleton after menopause.

WikiLeaks says whistleblowers need expert help when leaking government secrets.

Rio Tinto has used debt to deliver a 12 per cent boost to its interim dividend, despite underlying profits sliding by 43 per cent.