Monday January 01
Geelong produced some of its trademark premiership football to demolish the Swans by 53 points at a soggy Sydney Olympic stadium on Saturday night.
New Zealand continued its Bledisloe Cup and Tri-Nations dominance with a 49-28 pasting of Australia at Docklands stadium on Saturday night.
Investigators searching the site of an airliner crash near Pakistan's capital Islamabad in which 152 people died have found the plane's black box, a civil aviation official said.
Victoria's Bushfires Royal Commission has found the actions of emergency chiefs during last summer's deadly bushfires to be at times both "inadequate" and "confused".
The Australian Greens Party is launching new television advertisements which will air nationwide tomorrow night.
The president of the Northern Territory Criminal Lawyer's Association says he is surprised by a local newspaper poll which suggests a large percentage of people think the Territory is lenient on criminals.
Migrant communities say they are being made to feel like scapegoats by both the major parties in the election debate on population and asylum seekers.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 hit northeastern Iran, injuring around 170 people, state radio reported.