Sydney News

In a speech squarely aimed at global regulators, Glenn Stevens criticised some of the key controls being planned for banks around the world. And he questioned whether banks in countries such as Australia should be punished for the problems caused...

General Motors says it will reconsider its decision to close some dealerships as part of a compromise to scuttle federal legislation that would require it to keep dealerships open. GM says it will conduct face-to-face reviews with dealerships and agree...

Austin Hughes was sentenced to 19 years in jail with a minimum of 14 years for the bashing murder of six year old John Ashfield at Nowra. Hughes and the boy's mother killed him, by placing his head on a...

Rebekah Lawrence, died after jumping from a Sydney city building in 2005. Days earlier she had participated in an intensive course known as Turning Point which involved psychological regression techniques and emotional stress. Today the deputy New South Wales coroner,...

Seven-year-old Linda Stilwell went missing from St Kilda Beach in 1968. A coronial inquest has heard prison inmate Derek Ernest Percy is a suspect in her disappearance. Edith Jamieson was on the beach with her young children on the last...

more than twice the size of New York's Manhattan island -- is drifting slowly toward Australia, scientists said Wednesday. The iceberg, measuring 140 square km (54 square miles), cleaved off an ice shelf nearly 10 years ago and had been...

GoodStart has been established by four non-profit organisations; Social Ventures Australia, Mission Australia, the Brotherhood of St Laurence and the Benevolent Society. Together, these organisations have committed to providing the highest quality, socially inclusive, accessible and affordable...