2015-04-20 Australia More Top Stories

The Australian   

ICAC hits out at High Court after Margaret Cunneen verdict   
The Australian
The Independent Commission Against Corruption has lashed out at the High Court and demanded the NSW government introduce retrospective legislation to restore powers the anti-corruption body claims it has lost as a result of its failed investigation into ...

2015-04-20 Australia Health

Sky News Australia   

Perth hospital theatres out of action   
Sky News Australia
Operating theatres at Perth's new hospital will be out of action for the rest of the week after a burst pipe caused major flooding. A pipe that supplies water to the ward towers at Fiona Stanley Hospital burst on Sunday morning, cutting off hot water and the air ...

2015-04-20 Australia Science

The Guardian   

Australia's Direct Action climate policy challenged by US, China and Brazil at the ...   
The Guardian
Drought-affected farming area in south-eastern Australia. The UN has questioned the credibility of Australia's Direct Action climate change policy. Photograph: David Gray/Reuters. Shalailah Medhora and Oliver Milman. Sunday 19 April 2015 22.14 EDT Last ...

2015-04-20 Australia Sports

Sydney Morning Herald   

Rugby union player Nicholas Tooth dies after suffering head injury   
Sydney Morning Herald
The Australian and NSW rugby unions have pledged to support the "family and friends" of player Nicholas Tooth who died on Sunday from a head injury sustained while playing for the Quirindi Lions in a Central North first grade match on Saturday. Tooth, 25 ...

2015-04-20 Australia Entertainment

The Australian   

Queensland Performing Arts Centre thriving 30 years on   
The Australian
Queensland's longest-serving premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen was known for many things. Championing the arts was not one of them. It is something of a historical and cultural anomaly that from the settling dust of an era famous for demolitions of historical ...

2015-04-20 Australia Technology

Sydney Morning Herald   

Optus wants Netflix to pay up to ensure quality video streaming   
Sydney Morning Herald
In a move that is sure to spark a debate about "net neutrality" in Australia, Optus is soon likely to ask internet video streaming services such as Netflix to pay a fee to ensure that quality video streams are delivered to internet subscribers. Speaking in Sydney at ...

2015-04-20 Australia Business

ABC Online   

Court rejects ex-Guns boss' profit seizure   
9news.com.au
A former forestry company boss convicted of insider trading should be penalised only the profit he stood to lose on a shareholding, not the gross sum which he benefited, a court has ruled. The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions launched ...

2015-04-20 Australia Australia

Brisbane Times   

Billy Gordon returns to work as an independent MP   
Brisbane Times
Besieged former Labor MP Billy Gordon is back at work as an independent for the first time since details from his past and allegations of domestic violence threatened to end his political career before it began. The Cook MP, who has stated his intention to stay ...

2015-04-20 Australia World

Voice of America   

White House Condemns Islamic State Massacre of Ethiopian Christians   
Voice of America
The White House has condemned "in the strongest terms" the mass murder of 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya claimed by Islamic State. A spokeswoman said Sunday, "That these terrorists killed these men solely because of their faith lays bare the terrorists' ...