FEDERAL Environment Minister Peter Garrett is under fire for preventing government officials appearing at an inquiry into means testing of the solar panel rebate.

THE Australian share market had its largest one-day fall in six months, closing more than 3 per cent weaker and wiping $38.5 billion from its value, after on troubling news from National Australia Bank (NAB) and a weak lead overnight from Wall Street.

A 40-YEAR-OLD man has died in hospital after his car veered off a busy road and plunged into a river.

FORMER federal Labor leader Kim Beazley has been appointed chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU).

A 57-year-old Catholic priest has been remanded in custody after a Sydney jury found him guilty of 18 sex offences involving seven boys.

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Widespread rain has drenched Queensland during the past five days, continuing what one of the states wettest July