A Labor MP says he hasn't had a drinking binge since making a sex slur to a female security guard, who has letter-dropped his Northern Territory electorate ahead of Saturday's poll.
Tourism Australia has no accurate way of measuring the impact of its promotions, such as the controversial "Where the bloody hell are you?" campaign of 2006, an audit report has revealed.
The murder trial of former chauffeur Gordon Wood has been aborted after "misconduct" by jurors who planned a forbidden visit to the site where his girlfriend died.
Fewer than 40 percent of young adults would have sufficient savings to maintain their lifestyle if they lost their job tomorrow, a new Australian survey has found.
The Cairns Taipans will host the South Dragons in the opening game of the newly streamlined 2008-09 Australian National Basketball League (NBL) season on September 13.
The New South Wales Supreme Court has approved a last-ditch effort from legal teams representing the NRL and the Canterbury Bulldogs to prevent Sonny Bill Williams from playing his first match in France for the Toulon rugby club.
Big Brown showed his champion qualities when he dug deep inside the final 200 metres to run down Coal Play and win the group one Haskell Invitational at his first start since his Belmont Stakes failure.
East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta has paid tribute to a 15-year-old "hero" who alerted soldiers to rebel leader Alfredo Reinado on the day he was shot.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's ancestors include petty criminals -- one a street urchin sentenced to death for stealing a dress and underwear from another child, family researchers say.