Новости за 12.08.2015

US casino giant Wynn Resorts met with gaming minister Troy Grant to discuss "investment in NSW", but the government is refusing to elaborate.

The lawyer of NSW Labor powerbroker Jamie Clements has told a court his client will "strenuously deny" allegations he assaulted a party staffer.

Divisions over Tony Abbott's ill-defined formula for gay marriage reform, are threatening to worsen with influential figures angered at Tuesday's marathon party room meeting which they describe as an ambush. As new details emerge over the positions taken, Mr Abbott is struggling to manage what some MPs feel is the abuse of their goodwill to satisfy a right-wing agenda.

The Liberal Party's first openly gay federal parliamentarian has vowed to cross the floor to vote in favour of same-sex marriage if a bill comes to the Senate for a vote.

The NSW government has been accused of making "law on the run" as it bowed to pressure from AGL to remove a key planning obstacle to its coal seam gas project in Gloucester, new documents reveal.

Having lost out to Fawad Ahmed for the secondary spinner's berth for Australia's winter Test tour, of the West Indies and England, Ashton Agar is well placed to snare it for their next tour, to Bangladesh in October.

The meteor shower that caused an almighty sonic boom and shattered the peace in Tamworth on Wednesday morning was just a dress rehearsal for Thursday night's interstellar event.

Like most couples planning to tie the knot, Amanda Keeling and her partner Amy are making careful preparations for their big day. They've booked a wedding venue, chosen their outfits and sent out invitations to their 60 guests.

Australia should not attend global talks in Paris refusing to budge on its greenhouse gas emission pledge, the UN's scientific body on climate change says, ahead of expected international pressure on the Abbott government to do better.

Stephen Moore said the Wallabies haven't been stopping to smell the roses on the way to Eden Park.

Rabbitohs halfback Adam Reynolds knows just how important his role is if Souths are to emulate their premiership success, and a match-up against the world's best halfback in Johnathan Thurston is the perfect way to make amends for a drubbing at the hands of Manly last week.

Australian cricket fans struggling to get enthused for the post-Ashes limited-overs series in England have been given a key reason to do so: the long-awaited chance of an Australian pace attack comprising three young quicks.

The Australian sharemarket plunged to a seven-month low on Wednesday, entering a technical correction.

One sudden move from the People's Bank of China reminded everyone how much China is linked to global growth.

The Reserve Bank has warned Australia is experiencing a large transfer of wealth from its younger to older generations, with property prices rising faster than incomes, that is "unlikely to make us better off as a nation" if the trend continues.

Islamic State's Egypt-affiliate, Sinai Province, published a photo of the beheaded body of a Croatian hostage the group had threatened to kill last week, the SITE monitoring service said on Wednesday.

Not PC, but is having wives, girlfriends and families on sporting tours good for on-field performance?

A man has been charged in connection to the daylight shooting murder of 22-year-old Sydney bodybuilder Hedi Ayoub.

Withering put-downs are not the sole preserve of cricket. But cricket, more than any other sport, seems to generate large numbers of raconteurs, humorists and comic novelists.

Housing pornography has returned to Sydney. If you don't know what I am talking about, you're clearly not a property swinger.

The dirty weekend isn't necessarily dirty, and isn't necessarily a weekend. But it surprises me that the good (or even halfway decent) dirty weekender is so hard to find, especially if you start from Sydney

Concerned about the plight of asylum seekers, thousands of whom are living in our community on as little as $3 a day, and so are undernourished, because they are not allowed to work while their refugee claims are being processed?

Women's rights campaigners and Hollywood stars criticise initiative, but Amnesty insists exploitation of sex workers will remain a crime.

The final golf major of 2015 sees the world's best converge on Kohler, Winconsin to take on the monster by Lake Michigan

Australian fighter jets should start bombing Islamic State jihadists in Syria, the head of the federal government's security committee says.