Central Coast Mariners secured a 2-0 win in Sunday's low-key A-League NSW derby clash with a depleted Newcastle Jets.

With the Australian cricket team hitting a new low, is spin king Shane Warne about to come out of retirement and return to test cricket?

New Zealand's road to the 2012 London Olympic begins in Adelaide this weekend at the Oceania track championships.

Joelle Thomson heads to the Barossa Valley to taste shiraz.

Reluctant passenger Geraldine Johns straps herself in and is jetted to cuisine hotspots.

The Louise, in South Australia's Barossa Valley, is an address so swank you have an indoor bath as big as a swimming pool, a separate shower and an outside shower just in case.

To enjoy the freshest shellfish, one must dress for the occasion, writes Geraldine Johns.

Those joking New Zealand driver Greg Murphy's arrival at Paul Morris Motorsport is part of a team strategy to get more seniors' parking places be warned.

Melbourne is bracing for a second lashing following yesterday's "beast" of a hailstorm.

The woman who allegedly had an affair with South Australian Premier Mike Rann says her eviction from an art gallery was humiliating, but she won't let him dictate her social life.

Mary MacKillop is set to become Australia's first saint after Pope Benedict XVI approved her second miracle.