Mistrust holding back reconciliation: Dodson
Australian of the Year Mick Dodson has used an annual reconciliation lecture in Canberra to highlight obstacles to reconciliation.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Wednesday Jun 10
Confident Socceroos ease past Bahrain
Australia is just a point away from its next goal of topping its World Cup qualifying group after easily accounting for Bahrain 2-0 at Sydney's Olympic stadium.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Wednesday Jun 10
Comedy head axed over Chaser skit
The ABC has removed its head of TV comedy over the furore surrounding a skit broadcast on The Chaser's War on Everything program.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Wednesday Jun 10
Merauke Five 'free to go shortly'
Indonesia's Supreme Court has ruled that five Australians detained in Papua are free to leave, but it could take more than a week for paperwork to be finalised.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Wednesday Jun 10
Business investment 'to fall 20pc'
Economic forecaster BIS Shrapnel says the Federal Government's bid to boost the economy through infrastructure spending will not be enough to offset the decline in business investment.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Tuesday Jun 9
Pakistan hotel blast kills 11
At least 11 people have been killed and 46 injured in a huge bomb blast at the five-star Pearl Continental hotel in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, police say.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Tuesday Jun 9
Arbib rejects kingmaker mantle
The new Minister for Employment Participation, Mark Arbib, has denied claims his appointment was payment for aiding Kevin Rudd's rise to power.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Tuesday Jun 9
'Close allies': US envoy plays down Israel tensions
US envoy George Mitchell says Washington is seeking swift renewal of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and promised Israel its alliance with the United States would remain strong despite differences.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Tuesday Jun 9
Guantanamo precedent: detainee to face civilian court
An Al Qaeda suspect accused in the 1998 US Embassy bombings in Africa has been transferred from Guantanamo Bay for prosecution in a New York court, the Justice Department said.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Tuesday Jun 9
Broncos star fined $50k for woman in hotel room
The Broncos have handed down the biggest fine in the club's history with prop Joel Clinton reprimanded for bringing a woman back to his hotel room the night before an NRL match.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Tuesday Jun 9
Indian students rally over Sydney attack
A rally in Sydney's west over an attack on an Indian student last night has died down, with about 50 students remaining.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Monday Jun 8
Business investment tipped to fall further
A private survey provides further evidence that the green shoots of economic recovery may not survive the chill of winter.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Monday Jun 8
Brown accused of sacking disloyal minister
The British Labour party has lost another minister who has left the government in the wake of the party's biggest electoral defeat in post war history.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Monday Jun 8
Real IRA responsible for Omagh bombing: court
Four men and outlawed guerrilla group the Real IRA have been found to be responsible for the 1998 Omagh bombing in a landmark civil case in Northern Ireland.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Monday Jun 8
Win some, lose some: Bowen denies bungler claims
The newest member of the Federal Cabinet, Chris Bowen, has defended his appointment against Opposition claims he bungled the management of his last portfolio.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Monday Jun 8
Obama deeply concerned by N Korean sentencing
The White House says US President Barack Obama is deeply concerned about a North Korean court sentencing two American journalists to 12 years in a prison camp.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Monday Jun 8
Sharks woes continue with cover-up claim
A former Cronulla Sharks staff member has aired more damaging claims about an incident in which the club's chief executive allegedly punched her in the eye.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Monday Jun 8
Titans win in the shadows of flu threat
The Titans defeated the Dragons 28-24 on Monday evening in a match which saw key players pulled from both sides at the last minute as a swine flu scare enveloped the Queensland Origin squad.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Monday Jun 8
Babies smashed against trees in Duch's killing field
The former jail chief of the Khmer Rouge regime has told Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes trial that his staff murdered babies by smashing them against trees at a quot;killing fieldquot;.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Monday Jun 8
Designer, late surgeon top Queen's Birthday honours
Fashion designer Carla Zampatti, the late surgeon Chris O'Brien and the Choir of Hard Knocks' John Welsh are among almost 600 Australians on this year's Queen's Birthday honours list.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Sunday Jun 7
Mandelson backs Brown as Labour losses loom
A senior member of the British Government has defended the record of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, as the Labour Party braces for heavy defeats in the European election.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Sunday Jun 7
US 'looking at terrorism blacklist' for Nth Korea
Hillary Clinton says America is looking at putting North Korea back on a list of state sponsors of terrorism in response to its nuclear test last month.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Sunday Jun 7
Shanghai's low-key Gay Pride Week kicks off
China's first Gay Pride Week has kicked off in Shanghai - but without the street celebrations that feature in similar events around the world.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Sunday Jun 7
Lebanon voters flock to polls
Officials in Lebanon say voting in the country's election is proceeding peacefully.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Sunday Jun 7
Sharks CEO rocked by secret tape recording
The National Rugby League has called on the Cronulla board to review its position on club chief executive Tony Zappia after a secret tape recording was aired on Channel 7.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Sunday Jun 7
Unbeaten Cats put to the test in the west
Premiership favourite Geelong will enter round 12 unbeaten despite a far from convincing 22-point win over West Coast at Subiaco Oval on Sunday evening.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Sunday Jun 7
Indians march against student violence
Hundreds of people from Sydney's Indian community have marched through the city, accusing police and the state and federal governments of failing to protect them.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Sunday Jun 7
Socceroos through to World Cup
Australia secured a place in next year's World Cup in South Africa when they got the point they needed in a goalless draw with Qatar.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Saturday Jun 6
We cannot forget: Obama honours D-Day heroes
President Barack Obama has promised the United States will never forget the dead of D-Day in 1944, saying the Allied troops killed on Normandy's beaches changed history.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Saturday Jun 6
Toll rises in Mexican daycare blaze
A fire at a daycare centre in northern Mexico has killed at least 31 young children and left dozens of others injured, police and officials said on Saturday.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Saturday Jun 6
UK raid uncovers deadly poison stash
A father and son are being questioned as part of an anti-terrorism operation after a substance suspected of containing the deadly poison ricin was found in a house in northern England, police said on Saturday.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Saturday Jun 6
Autopilot shut down on doomed Air France flight
French investigators say the Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean sent out 24 automatic error messages in its final moments as its systems including the autopilot shut down.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Saturday Jun 6
Attorney-General considers scuba sentence appeal
The Queensland Attorney-General is considering an appeal against the sentence handed down to an American man jailed over the death of his wife in 2006.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Saturday Jun 6
Rudd details Cabinet reshuffle
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced a Cabinet reshuffle in the wake of the resignation of the former defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Saturday Jun 6
Crisis for Brown as three more ministers quit
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is facing an unprecedented crisis as three of his cabinet ministers quit in 24 hours despite a bid to reassert his authority with a government reshuffle.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Friday Jun 5
School boys catch purse-snatching cop
A Japanese police officer has been arrested for snatching the purse of a 75-year-old woman after he was chased and caught by two high school students, police officials said Friday.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Friday Jun 5
Airbus warns pilots of speed gauge anomaly
Airbus has warned airline crews to follow standard procedures if they suspect speed indicators are faulty, suggesting that technical malfunction may have played a role in this week's Air France crash.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Friday Jun 5
Burma court delays Suu Kyi trial
Judges in the trial of Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi have delayed her final hearing until the end of next week and postponed ruling on whether to allow three barred defence witnesses to testify.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Friday Jun 5
Atomic test veterans win right to sue
Around 1,000 British servicemen who took part in atomic tests in the 1950s have won the right to sue the UK Government for health problems they blame on nuclear radiation.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Friday Jun 5
Dogs bring Wallace's term to painful end
Richmond ended its five-year association with Terry Wallace with a disappointing 68-point thrashing at the hands of the Bulldogs at Docklands on Friday night.
abc.net.au |
General Top News | Friday Jun 5
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