Новости за 18.11.2015

To mark the 30th year of the national draft, Fairfax Media has compiled an all-time draft list by the numbers.

On Tuesday, Charlie Sheen came out to the world as HIV-positive. He is one of 36 million people living with HIV, but for the next few days it may seem he is the only one.

It was a day of high obfuscation as some of the world's best known multinationals faced the Senate Inquiry into Corporate Tax Avoidance.

As Kayley Bencke held her pigtails that once hung below her hips, she couldn't be happier that they're going to a stranger.

"All the world now knows that Monis was a dangerous deviant," Coroner Michael Barnes told lawyers at the third phase of the Lindt cafe inquest which opened on Wednesday. "The questions the inquest must grapple with are: should ASIO have predicted his violent outburst, and could its methods be improved to make such predictions more reliable in the future?"

Pay rates for Victorian bureaucrats are surging at the fastest pace for six years, underpinning a $357 million budget blowout in the wage bill for public servants in the past year.

Charlie Sheen's announcement he has HIV is only the latest in a long string of troubling stories about the actor.

Three teenage boys have been arrested after a man was allegedly punched in the face during an attempted robbery in Bentleigh earlier this month.

HAving an expanding waistline doesn't just add weight to your insurance premium - it can lighten your purse or wallet in other ways.

Australia's top-ranked amateur golfer says he could turn professional by the end of the month.

"Dream Team" pairings of Adam Scott and Karrie Webb, or Jason Day and Minjee Lee, at the Rio Olympics would have been a far better way to grow the game internationally, but instead Australian golf's biggest name seems likely to skip next year's quest for a gold medal.

Canberra woman Jessica May won the national 2015 Telstra Business Woman of the Year Start-Up Award on Wednesday.

Brisbane is about to get a new live theatre but the question has been raised - should it have 500 or 1500 seats?.

Jan and Paul Kruger have resisted having their son Jack labelled in any way and want him to have every education, social and employment opportunity as his siblings.

Adam Treloar didn't tell the Giants he was going in for surgery late this year when still contracted to the club because he had already told them he wanted to leave and in his mind he was no longer a GWS player.

Twice in a year horror has struck at the heart of Paris.

A.B. de Villiers' 100th Test fizzled out into a tame draw on Wednesday with cyclonic rains and a wet outfield wiping out a fourth successive day in the second Test between India and South Africa at Bengaluru's M Chinnaswamy Stadium.

A Brisbane man who delivered heroin for a drug dealer while on bail for sexually assaulting a teenage girl has been sentenced to five years' jail.

A inner-Sydney building has been declared safe after police earlier evacuated the 23 floors amid reports there was a gunman inside.

The Crow's Egg's great quality is its innocence, carried largely by the naturalistic performances of the two boys. The elder brother knows something of the world, while the younger just beams happily at every adventure.

Ignore the scolds: It's perfectly normal to be more upset about the Paris attacks than bombing in other faraway lands.

This is paced and styled like a children's film, but with touches of Monty Pythonesque nastiness that surface at odd moments.

Orica CEO Alberto Calderon believes the world's biggest explosive maker can lift its earnings despite the mining sector facing its worst downturn in 20 years.

Six innovative organisations are set to flourish as the first round of funding from the CBR Innovation Development Fund is divvied out.

Until I was diagnosed with high-functioning autism this summer, I had spent my whole life feeling different.