Новости за 25.08.2015

Education Minister must raise teacher standards generally and place the best teachers where they are most needed.

NBN Co. has picked a fight with Australia's biggest telcos by working on a confidential proposal to help new players like supermarkets and banks sell broadband.

The large and violent moves in global equity markets have raised questions as to whether high frequency and algorithmic trading systems exacerbated movements and made financial markets unstable.

The Rabbitohs and Dragons may soon join the Roosters at Moore Park, while Parramatta could also be home to Wests Tigers and Penrith.

In the Hot Shop of Adelaide's Jam Factory, a group of young glass blowers are replicating the effect of an atomic bomb blast.

WA's Police Union says it defies common sense that officers cannot be armed in court, after a knife was found at the Perth Magistrates Court on Tuesday afternoon.

The Abbott government has offered a briefing on a secret report by the trade union royal commission - the contents of which pose "grave threats to the power and authority of the Australian state" - but has "emphatically denied" the briefing was offered as a bargaining chip to secure political support to re-establish the building industry watchdog.

The US is embracing Jarryd Hayne, more so than his own country ever has.

A Canberra man who masturbated in his backyard in full view of neighbours has won an appeal to have his name removed from the sex offenders register.

More women on sporting boards is likely to lead to less corruption, doping and match-fixing, sports researcher Catherine Ordway says - but not, she argues, because women are more ethical.

A fairytale ending wouldn't be the same without "happily ever after". One musical aims to change all that.

Entries from winter photo comp impress as season draws to an end.

Television satirists The Chaser are going back to the future with a plan for a quarterly print magazine. And they want 50K.

BHP Billiton chief executive Andrew Mackenzie slaps down Glencore boss Ivan Glasenberg's China comments.

The AFL injury list after round 21 of the home-and-away season

The newcomer to Canberra finds much to wonder at. Including the airport's advertisements.

US oil major ConocoPhillips is targeting mid-2018 for a go-ahead on a potential $15 billion offshore gas development off northern Australia to feed its Darwin LNG project.

Canberra Raiders outside back Sisa Waqa has put to bed rumours he wants out of the club to join French rugby, adamant he will honour the final season of his two year deal in 2016.

Cancer cells have been programmed back to normal by scientists in a breakthrough which could lead to new treatments and even reverse tumour growth.

The Northern Territory is sitting on a treasure trove of unconventional gas that could deliver thousands of jobs and almost $1 billion of government revenue, report finds.

A driver escaped uninjured after a tree crashed onto the front bonnet and windscreen of their car on Tuesday morning.

The wives of Telstra employees are reaping the benefits of the company's flexible work as paid parental leave is becoming the norm for new dads at the telco company.

Organisations tackling family or sexual violence can apply to access grants, funded by confiscated proceeds of crime.

Brisbane City Council officers accused of colluding with a developer to allow a café to be built without going through public consultation have been cleared by an internal investigation.

Todd Sampson is stepping down as chief executive of advertising firm Leo Burnett Australia and moving into a new role as non-executive chairman.