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Chief Commissioner Simon Overland said 800 police would target the CBD, Frankston, Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo this weekend as part of the Australia-wide operation, codenamed Unite. "We want people of all ages to be able to enjoy themselves in a...

A Canadian citizen, who had staged a hunger strike to protest his planned deportation from Australia, has won a reprieve. Ziad Chebib left the Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre in Melbourne on Wednesday, the same day he was scheduled to be...

The Dalai Lama arrives at Parliament House. Photo: Jason South THE Obama Administration secretly sent staff to Melbourne this week to ask religious leaders about winning hearts and minds in the Muslim world. The State Department's head of religious freedom,...

In response, ETU workers will start a picket line at 8am outside the refinery. ETU BP refinery organiser Garry Rogers said if the maintenance lockout continued into next week it would start to impact on Queensland petrol supplies and pose...

John Singleton presented his old mate Bob Hawke with a share in another promising racehorse at his 80th birthday party last night. Ten years ago, Singleton presented Hawke with a quarter share in another racehorse...Singleton and Hawke are of the...

The Mothers and Babies Report looks at data collected about births and pregnancies from 2007. Report author Professor Elizabeth Sullivan says there were 12,000 more births in 2007 compared to 2006. And she says women are continuing to have babies...

A MAN who allegedly robbed a chemist on the Gold Coast was tackled and reportedly hit by a sign during a citizen's arrest. It is alleged the offender first robbed the Nobby Beach chemist, on the Gold Coast Highway, on...

Government proposals to slash ACC payments for hearing loss are an attack on the elderly, an advocate for the deaf says. Under changes reported in The Dominion Post today, ACC would pay only the proportion of a claimant's hearing loss...

The consensus among economists is that 5,000 jobs will have been created during November, after an increase of more than 24,000 the previous month. But the unemployment rate is expected to worsen from 5.8 per cent in October to 5.9...