As families receive the first carbon tax compensation payments we take a look at the great divide between the haves and the have nots.

Retailers complain they're doing it tough and struggling to compete with online stores, but prices show they're not the ones who should be angry.

The price of being in the limelight is everyone feels they have the right to be a critic, and right now no one's paying the price more than Delta.

A new mobile phone application that's being used to fight speeding fines has been developed, tracking car speeds more accurately than the cameras.

Each year more than 1200 Australians die from malignant and benign brain tumours, and another 1400 are given the terrible news that they have one.

In a wake-up call for teen drivers and their parents, video evidence has been released showing just how easily teens behind the wheel are distracted.

With the banks not fully taking into account what the Reserve Bank orders, we assemble the experts to find the best rates for your mortgages.View videos »
Idyllic welfare island | Credit card magic | Defending Delta Goodrem | Supermarket discounts

An island paradise with an idyllic lifestyle comes at a massive cost to taxpayers, with an unemployment rate that varies between 60 and 80 per cent.

A credit card 'Houdini' says he can help anyone escape being trapped in a bank with high charges, and all you have to know are the magic words.

The price of being in the limelight is everyone feels they have the right to be a critic, and right now no one's paying the price more than Delta.

The supermarkets are at it again in their tit for tat battle for your business, and now they're making the discounts bigger than ever before.
Voting on The Voice | Banning mobiles from school | Breast cancer breakthrough | Australia's price rip-off

Retailers complain they're doing it tough and struggling to compete with online stores, but prices show they're not the ones who should be angry.

The key to successfully treating any potentially deadly disease is to start treating it as quickly as possible, and that means early detection.

The push is on once again to ban mobile phones at schools, because they can encourage wild and at times criminal behaviour in the students.

The Voice is entering its voting stage, with viewers supposedly in control of who wins, but it seems that only a certain few may have a real say.
Hospital attacks | Kids' battle | Exploding heaters | Breakthrough sleep device

Doctors and nurses being assaulted by violent and sometimes armed patients in medical clinics, hospitals, respite centres and private homes.

Four sisters remain fugitives from the law as their parents are embroiled in an international custody battle.

Authorities warn that house fires can start in seconds, engulfing homes, costing lives.

There may be a breakthrough for people who have the greatest trouble sleeping.
Raunchy novel helps women | Repeat DUI offenders | Rebel parking cop | Which spreads are best?

Margarine was invented way back in 1813, but the debate still rages over whether it's the healthier option, or if butter really is better.

Drink drivers who never learn are banned from driving over and over again, and police are now using new techniques to pick up the worst offenders.

A major city council's top officer, who earned plenty of praise for smashing quotas for handing out fines, has quit and gone to the other side.

A first-time novelist’s raunchy book has become an international best seller, credited with helping women and saving marriages around the world.
Australia's First Wives club | World's oldest backpacker? | Bank reform push | HGerry Harvey goes undercover

TV icons and stars of the stage and screen, who have conquered the entertainment industry but have been unlucky in love, have given up on men.

Pensioner Keith Wright might be 95, but he says he's far too young to settle down, preferring instead to travel as the 'world's oldest backpacker'.

The ANZ today announced a 37 basis point cut in its variable home loan interest rates, joining the other big banks in not passing on RBA's full cut.

The billionaire boss is back, and this time Gerry Harvey's spying on his own employees, before confronting them with evidence of their behaviours.

There was extraordinary news today that the Director of Public Prosecutions in New South Wales has dropped the charges against Scientology leader Jan Eastgate.
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