Cybercriminals are luring people to websites claiming to offer news on the missing Malaysia Airlines plane to steal their personal information.

Even by Parliament House's standards it seemed a particularly petty squabble: a dispute between Coalition and Labor politicians over which television channel to watch in the parliamentary gym.

Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos has stood down from the frontbench after political pressure over business dealings that are before a NSW anti-corruption inquiry.

NSW Community Services Minister Pru Goward said proceeds from the sale of the historic properties at Millers Point, The Rocks and Gloucester Street would be reinvested into the social housing system.

‘‘Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood wish to thank all of their fans for their support at this difficult time and hope that they will fully understand the reason for this announcement."

A twisting flight path described on Tuesday by Thai air force spokesman Air Vice Marshal Montol Suchookorn took the plane to the Strait of Malacca, which is where Malaysian radar tracked Flight 370 early March 8. But Montol said the Thai military doesn't know whether it detected the same plane.

Australian taxpayers will lend $US100 million ($110.6 million to a mining joint-venture run by BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto in Chile, under the latest funding deal by Australia's controversial Export Finance and Insurance Corporation.

Global warming will displace millions of people, trigger falling crop yields, stoke conflict and cost trillions of dollars in lost economic output, a United Nations report will warn.

A broken child drove Andrew Forrest to a unique alliance, writes Nick Miller in Rome.

Waves of gravity that rippled through space right after the Big Bang have been detected for the first time.

The leagues club has taken urgent action in the NSW Supreme Court against Rozelle Village, a property developer attempting to develop the Tigers' Victoria Road headquarters.

The apparent absence of any word from the aircraft in an era of nearly ubiquitous mobile communications has prompted considerable debate among pilots, telecommunications specialists and others.

In a discussion about racial discrimination laws last Monday night, Professor Langton said Mr Bolt had heaped "foul abuse" on indigenous woman Misty Jenkins, which led to her withdrawal from public life.

Winners announced from more than 1500 Safer Sydney entrants.

It's called "time confetti". It's miserable. And it's part of why we are all Overwhelmed.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s announcement that the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) and transponder on Flight MH370 were deliberately disabled and the plane diverted towards the southern Indian Ocean or north towards Kazakhstan suggests that one (or both) of…

The Twitter accounts of Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Nationals MP Darren Chester were both hacked in the past 24 hours.

Investigators have identified two possible corridors for flight MH370. The southern arc took MH370 over Indonesia and down the Western Australian coast, about 1000km from land.

After becoming the first local driver to stand on the podium at home in a world championship Grand Prix, the Red Bull Racing driver was disqualified for a technical infringement that brought a frown to the ever-smiling Australian's face for the first time all week in Melbourne.

As authorities examine a flight simulator confiscated from the home of one of the pilots and dig through the background of all 239 people on board and the ground crew that serviced the plane, they are also grappling with the enormity of the search ahead, warning that they need more data to narrow th...

All cosmetics tested on animals would be banned in Australia under a proposal by the Greens.

The Sydney Biennale does not officially open until Friday, but already it has transfixed audiences with a bold, confronting series of interconnected performance works.

Placards suggesting that Prime Minister Tony Abbott has a hotline to Satan and others denouncing the illuminati and global weather conspiracies have been waved at a protest in Sydney.

Sydney's mobile dining fleet is set to expand from nine food trucks to 50 under a plan to make them a permanent feature.

The Malaysian Government has all but confirmed the missing Malaysian Airlines plane was hiajcked.

A Malaysian government official says investigators have concluded the missing Malaysia Airlines plane was hijacked, according press agency AP.

PM Tony Abbott faced an unexpected inquisition.

Whistleblower Mark Isaacs felt compelled to reveal detainees' mistreatment.

Qantas aircraft sent for maintenance in Asia have been found with corrosion on the wings, multiple cracks, faulty engine indicators and, in the case of a 747 jumbo, three of four engines not held on properly, the aircraft engineers’ union has alleged in a dossier detailing a litany of errors.

The judge in the Daniel Morcombe murder trial says the case highlights arguments against tougher sentences for sex offenders.

There has been a 26 per cent rise in the number of people sleeping rough in the past year.

Brett Peter Cowan sentenced for 13-year-old Daniel Morcombe's abduction and murder.

A large python has swallowed a pet dog that was chained up inside its kennel in a backyard in northern NSW.

There's a 1960s quote attributed to former US Senator and Ambassador Daniel Moynihan that's increasingly apt half a century later: "You're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts." It's a truth that seems to be lost on the political class, from the Prime Minister down.

A record number of NSW children sat for the selective schools placement test on Thursday: 13,930 children are in contention for 4188 spots.

A new website will allow Australians to hire platonic friends for “endless possibilities” with one caveat: no physical contact allowed.

The government has paid nearly a million dollars to cover its sudden axing of Australia's peak drug and alcohol body, documents reveal.

Brett Peter Cowan has been found guilty of the murder of 13-year-old schoolboy Daniel Morcombe.

The teenagers' purpose, they claim, was “to see who would try and stop a robbery if they witnessed one happening in front of them".

The evidence comes from a water-loving mineral called ringwoodite that came from the so-called transition zone sandwiched between the upper and lower layers of Earth's mantle, they said.

Lend Lease chief operating officer, Dan Labbad, defended the company's safety record dispute it being the second fire on one if its Sydney construction sites in the last 18 months and the death of a worker at Barangaroo in January.