Angry over government policies on immigration and education, an 81-year-old Australian man mailed bullets and detonators to Prime Minister Julia Gillard, other political leaders and leading bankers.

Ricky Ponting could break Steve Waugh's record as Australia's most-capped Test cricketer in front of his home fans at Hobart after the international summer schedule was announced on Thursday.

The Australia one-day and Twenty20 international squads named on Monday to play Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates from August 28 to September 10.

A 42-year-old Australian was on Thursday sentenced to at least 35 years in jail without parole for brutally killing his Indian girlfriend and her two siblings, in the longest sentence handed down in Q

A massive hunt was underway in northern Australia on Wednesday for a fugitive accused of decapitating a man and leaving only a hat where his head should have been.

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An asylum-seeker boat carrying an estimated 150 people sank Wednesday en route to Australia's Christmas Island, barely a week after another vessel went down in the same area, killing up to 90.

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Rescuers were making last efforts on Saturday to search for survivors from a refugee boat accident off Australia's Christmas Island as final hopes faded for some 90 people still missing.

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An asylum-seeker boat believed to be carrying 200 people capsized on Thursday off remote Christmas Island with an unknown number of survivors, Australian authorities said.

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The Australian city of Melbourne was hit by a rare earthquake on Tuesday with residents reporting their houses shook and windows rattled, but there were no immediate reports of damage.

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An Indian taxi driver was attacked and racially abused and his car smashed, as a group of baseball bat wielding youth went about attacking and robbing cab drivers in Melbourne suburbs.

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