Flash flooding and damaging hail storms lashed the western parts of the Gippsland region on the Labour Day long weekend....

An emergency worker wades through floodwaters in Melbourne during a storm on March 6, 2010....

Cars are inundated by floodwaters on a North Melbourne street outside The Lost Dogs Home during a storm on March 6, 2010....

A car sits deep in floodwaters on a North Melbourne street near The Lost Dogs Home during a storm on March 6, 2010....

A woman died after being struck by a car on the Hume Highway at Epping, north-east of Melbourne....

Fire authorities are urging people in and near the Raglan area, south-west of Ararat, to activate their bushfire survival plans. ...

Australia has won rare praise from Burma campaigners for a move in Geneva that could lead to an international legal case against Burma's military junta for crimes against its people. It comes after a discussion by the United Nations Human Rights Commission of a report by Special Rapporteur Tomas ...

Humanitarian aid bound for Fiji is loaded onto RAAF C-130H Hercules A97-008 at the RAAF Base in Richmond near Sydney, on March 17, 2010, after Cyclone Tomas devastated the island nation....

Thousands of people are feared homeless in cyclone-hit Fiji, while 17 Australians remain unaccounted for....

Fire forced passengers to evacuate a train at Croxton station, in Melbourne's north....