A four-year-old was hospitalised in Melbourne yesterday after falling onto a knife left in an open dishwasher.

Report shows living standards have changed little.

Taxi drivers are calling for perspex screens and security cameras to be compulsory in taxis, with no provisions in NZ law covering driver safety.

Almost a year after the Black Saturday bushfires devastated Victoria, two teenage boys have been charged with lighting the Bendigo blaze.

I donned a black armband to collect Ford's FPV F6-E.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's nephew was fined.

Police in Australia are investigating a report that missing multi-millionaire Herman Rockefeller has been spotted in a small town west of Melbourne.

Prime Minister John Key stands by his decision to reveal that one of the SAS soldiers in a controversial photograph this week was Victoria Cross winner Corporal Willie Apiata.

Actor Dennis Hopper has filed for divorce from his fifth wife, amid reports he's on his deathbed, writes Myrddin Gwynedd.

Claims of racial tension and unruly behaviour at the Australian Tennis Open have once again taken the gloss off one of the game's most anticipated tournaments, claim Australian news media.

A clandestine meth lab found on one of the country's poshest streets shows the drug can make its way into all communities, street resident and Auckland City Mayor John Banks says.