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Hometown star Robert Allenby has agreed to head the challenge to defending champion Tiger Woods at the Australian Masters.

The Australian Commonwealth Games Association is still awaiting a security report on the Delhi Games.

The Australian Commonwealth Games Association is still awaiting a security report on the Delhi Games.

Victoria Police says a member of its special operations group was on the periphery of a firefight involving Australian troops in Afghanistan last year.

One of the nation’s biggest investigations into organised crime has exposed an international drug importation syndicate with links to the Comancheros outlaw bikie gang, Chinese triads and corrupt Australian officials.

Convicted Australian drug smuggler Scott Rush pleads with Indonesian authorities to spare him the death penalty.

An Australian drilling consultant helping to reach 33 trapped miners in Chile was on site when a drill bit came up with notes taped to it from the miners.

Australia’s $143 million wine trade with China threatened following the discovery of fake Australian wines in China.

DON’T ask the fish to describe the water, or so it’s said. To get a true picture of what happened to Australian politics at the weekend, look to how the outside world saw the election.

This devastating result for the Gillard government is a huge indictment of Labor, which has squandered the opportunity the Australian people gave it in 2007.