The consensus level among High Court judges rose after the Abbott government's new royal commissioner left , a study has found.
POLL: Is Valentines Day still about Love?
Woman killed in Esplanade crash
Body found in gutter after apparent road accident
Police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found lying in a gutter in Sydney's south after an apparent traffic accident.
Liberal powerbroker Nick Minchin to be appointed consul-general to New York
I gave Snowden my password: NSA worker
An employee of the NSA has admitted to letting former contractor Edward Snowden use his password.
Sochi Winter Olympics: Aussie skater Brendan Kerry stumbles out of contention
Sochi Winter Olympics: Russia’s hero of the ice, Evgeni Plushenko, bows out with severe back pain
NDIS trials to cost further $400m
Federal Labor's rush to launch the National Disability Insurance Scheme before last year's election contributed to it underestimating the cost of trials by almost $400 million, the Coalition says.
Joe Hockey feels sting of shock rise in jobless figures
Soaring jobless numbers and a raft of soft economic data force Joe Hockey to rethink the severity of his first budget.