A Victorian Parliamentary committee report has found farmers should own the carbon in their soil....

The Series II Commodore is the first Australian-made vehicle that can run on either petrol or bio ethanol....

The possibility of a high-speed rail line connecting Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane appears more likely with the Greens soon to hold more power in the Senate....

The board of Australia's former monopoly wheat exporter AWB is pushing for the agribusiness to become fully foreign owned. ...

Indonesia is Australia's 13th largest trading partner with about $10 billion of goods and services moving between the two countries....

The story of the high stakes battle that will decide who owns your body and the key biological building blocks that make you the person that you are. ...

New technologies, travel and TV have profound implications for the Catholic church in Latin America. Gay rights, human rights, and women's rights - even abortion - are confronting centuries of Catholic thinking and the clergy is slowly being pushed out of politics. Reporter Stephen Crittenden ...

Today's business and finance on the markets....

The Fair Pay Alliance says women are still earning 18 per cent less than men on average in Australia and have to work 66 days a year more to earn the same amount. The ACTU is hoping a test case for community and social workers next month may go some way to closing the gap. ...

Bob Katter has called for, among other things, the devaluation of the Australian dollar and a review of tax allowances for remote areas. Will it work?...