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Asylum seekers will be processed in Australia for the foreseeable future, but Prime Minister Julia Gillard says Labor will continue to pursue offshore processing.
A plane carrying dozens of passengers crashes in Papua New Guinea, and most of those on board are feared dead.
One person is dead and cars have been swept away after severe thunderstorms across south-east Queensland.
There is new hope for southern bluefin tuna, with a crucial meeting adopting a plan to allow the critically endangered species to replenish.
Rick Hind
A crane lifting a swimming pool into place tips over in a suburban street in the Northern Territory.
Australia faces a surge in the rates of dementia sufferers, prompting a need for more funding for research.
John Clarke and Bryan Dawe discuss the premiere of carbon tax the movie.
By Emily Bourke and wires
Samsung's latest tablet computer has had a temporary sale ban slapped on it, handing a crucial victory to rival Apple.
What's going on in Greece? ABC News Online breaks down the debt crisis.
Plague germs extracted from medieval corpses shed light on why the bacterium that unleashed the Black Death was so lethal.
The FBI swoops on a Florida man accused of hacking into the email accounts of starlets including Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis.
View images of the grounded container ship Rena, which is leaking oil off the NZ coast.
The wounds from Queensland's summer of disasters may not be obvious anymore but they're far from healed.
Philip Williams
A British couple who scooped £101 million on the lottery had only played twice before.
Visit our special site for news and results from the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.
Explore the reaction on social media as the carbon pricing bills passed the Lower House.
Check out the latest and best images from the world of sport.
Children who are forced to repeat a year at school are likely to suffer both academically and socially, new research suggests.
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The expansion of South Australia's Olympic Dam mine will make it the world's largest uranium mine.
Blaming Iran for a foiled terror plot risks dangerous escalation, says former CIA analyst Robert Baer.
Is the Marrickville council boycott on Israel a legitimate form of protest or anti-Semitic prejudice?
Apple devotees responded to Steve Jobs the same way Christians do to Jesus.