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Queenslanders have been so diligent in feeding excess electricity from their home solar panels back into the grid that their electricity price remained at $0.00 for a few days last week.

Few things are more romantic and drenched in old world charm than a train journey. Australia offers some of the most scenic tourist orientated railway journeys in some of the world's most charming trains.

Islamic militant who allegedly employed Facebook to recruit support for Syrian and Iraqi conflict has been taken in to custody in the Philippines and will be deported to Australia.

A statement made by District Court judge Gary Neilson that sex between siblings is gaining acceptance has been met with severe criticism.

Prince William will reveal the statue of Matthew Flinders who was the first to circumnavigate the great southern land and map the entire coast of Australia.

You know how crocs are - take food from their mouth and they take your hand instead, as this Australia zookeeer found out.

British drug mule apprehended at Sydney airport for being in possession of bottles of MDMA faces court.

A video showing shocking racial slurs filmed on a Sydney train this month and uploaded to YouTube has had over 395,000 views prompting more than 1,300 comments. Unfortunately it is not an isolated incident in Australia.

The father of a 3-year-old Sri Lankan girl has begged with immigration control’s Scott Morrison for information about the 'missing' boat of asylum seekers on which his daughter is believed to be.

Chairman of UK’s Committee on Climate Change lambasts government’s carbon tax repeal as “reckless and deeply retrograde”.

A report compiled by the United Nations drops jaws as it reveals that Commonwealth countries top the world for cocaine and ecstasy use.

British presenter Vanessa Feltz claims Rolf Harris groped her live on TV, while Irish singer Linda Nolan claims the disgraced entertainer assaulted her backstage.

A group of asylum seekers being held on an Australian vessel at sea will not be returned to their native Sri Lanka without 72 hours' notice.

Tony Abbott has used a visit by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to rally behind the trading giant takes on a stronger presence in the Asia-Pacific.

A boat carrying 41 asylum seekers was escorted back to Sri Lanka after it was intercepted by Australian border control, infuriating human rights activists who fear for the refugees’ safety in their home country.

New confidence for jihad as another Australian joins their ranks and their new “caliphate” prompts two notorious Australian Jihadist to issue threats to Australian troops via Twitter.

Tony Abbott’s chief indigenous advisor has called the PM's reference to Australia being "unsettled" before British colonisation as "silly while Nova Peris has branded them as "highly offensive".

The federal government will spend $300 million so Australian warships are better protected against the threat of anti-ship missiles.

A landmark report looking at the state of the world's tropics predicts Australia's tropical zone will expand by about 200 kilometres every 25 years.

Fraudsters stole the identity of Australia’s military head to scam unsuspecting women out of money through cyber romances.

Amnesty International says Australian man Pham Trung Dung, who has been sentenced to death in Vietnam, may be given an unknown cocktail of drugs.

Rolf Harris will likely be jailed when he is sentenced on Friday. Meanwhile, further allegations against the disgraced entertainer come to light as his honours are purged.

An asylum-seeker detained at the Manus Island refugee camp is suing the Australian government and its outsourced security company after a riot in February left the man with severe head trauma.

Revelations of terrible abuse at Salvation Army homes in the 1960s and 1970s have affected public generosity towards the church's fundraising efforts.

Australian not-for-profit groups with a tech-savvy bright idea for making the world a better place could win some serious tech support from Google.

A former Marist Brother head has denied to an inquiry that his role was to conceal rather than expose abuse.

The RBA is closely watching the debate raging over the budget with its monthly board meeting scheduled for Tuesday.

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison continues to refuse to reveal if an asylum seeker boat, or two, have been intercepted off Christmas Island

A woman claims she was working at a party for Michael Parkinson in 2005 when Rolf Harris groped her in front of his wife Alwen.

Rolf Harris has been handed 12 unanimous guilty verdicts following in his trial over indecently assaulting four girls in Britain between 1968 and 1986.

Jurors in the Rolf Harris trial are continuing their deliberations for an eighth day as the entertainer waits in court for the verdicts.

The Australian Labor party says the government's assertions that the welfare system is unsustainable are exaggerated.

Damion Baston has been portrayed in a US court as a violent pimp who turned beautiful Australian and New Zealand women into prostitutes.

Two prominent journalists representing media and human rights bodies have delivered a plea to the Egyptian consulate requesting Peter Greste be set free.

Online reports say that Apple is looking for language engineers who are experts on ‘Australian English’ (or Strine - as we like to call it) to assist with the programming of their voice activated application Siri.

A representative of Aboriginal delegates expressed their delight in having the remains of an ancestor returned to Australia from Chicago's Field Museum in Chicago.

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) proposes that cigarettes sales should be permanently banned to those born in the 2000’s while the British Medical Association (BMA) passed the motion this week.

The price of abolishing the carbon tax might be keeping Australia's car enthusiasts happy.

A week after first retiring to consider its verdict, the jury in Rolf Harris's child sex abuse trial has come back to the judge with questions.

Clive Palmer and former US vice-president Al Gore presented as an odd couple but they had nothing but admiration for each other as they talk over carbon tax and emissions trading scheme.

SPECIAL REPORT | Rupert Murdoch’s ‘The Australian’ has been accused of conspiring with Big Tobacco to dissuade the UK and Ireland from introducing plain packaging legislation, with an apparently ‘misleading’ report claiming Australia’s landmark laws are failing.

A British national, only known as Natalie, told reporters of her terrifying ordeal as she was driven into the Outback by a mysterious unnamed Australian and ‘left for dead’ in the same place where the Wolf Creek horror movie was filmed.

The Abbott government accepts the UN's rejection of its application to remove 74,000 hectares of forest from Tasmania's World Heritage Area.

The jury in the UK trial of Rolf Harris is set to return for a fourth day of deliberations.

PM Tony Abbott says the government will talk "calmly, patiently and reasonably" with the Egyptian government about the conviction of Peter Greste.

Jihadi recruitment video features a British national and another man believed to be a radical Australian.

The Abbott government has dismissed reports that the four pillars banking policy is at risk as Labor says any change would be irresponsible.

Tony Abbott warns that nobody should underestimate the threat posed by terrorists bearing down on the Iraqi capital as it is revealed that a small contingent of Australian troops have already been sent to 'bolster security' at the embassy there.

An Australian funeral director endured a 4 hour-long road trip with a portly body in her hearse. Her hefty companion then had to spend the night in her hearse after a morgue turned her away saying he would not fit in their fridge.

Julian Assange used the second anniversary of his entering the Ecuador's embassy in London to attack both the US and Australian governments.