Brendan Trembath

An expert on Pine Gap raises concerns about the spy base’s role in supporting drone attacks on suspected terrorists overseas, and what the ramifications could be for Australia.

Two planes bearing the remains of 33 Australian who were buried in military cemeteries in Malaysia and Singapore will land at a Royal Australian Air Force base north-west of Sydney this morning.

In a bold attempt to get more younger people into cinemas, one of America’s largest cinema chains is considering allowing customers to use mobile phones during films.

How did Australia’s steel industry go from underpinning the country’s economic growth for most of the 20th century to being all but extinct?

Researchers reach the grim conclusion that any type of particulate matter (PM) air pollution — including from cars, mining or even sea salt - is detrimental to human health.

Hundreds of followers of an ancient Middle Eastern faith descend on a river in western Sydney for one of the holiest weeks in their calendar.

The chief executive of one of Australia’s biggest makers of bricks has criticised coastal shipping costs, saying it is twice as much to ship a brick from Perth to Sydney than one all the way from Spain.

Outback Queensland records the highest youth unemployment level in the country, new analysis of jobless data shows, amid warnings rates remain stubbornly high across the country.

Cronulla Sharks football players were assured at the start of the 2011 season that supplements they would be given were "completely legal", former footballer Broderick Wright tells a Sydney court.

Former foreign minister Bob Carr says Australia’s “third world-style” population growth rate provides a case for cutting immigration by up to 50 per cent.