Jon Faine muses as to whether the strain of the federal negotions is starting to show in the tone of talkback callers and facebook comments....

Delegates at a United Nations conference in Melbourne have called for more international assistance for flood-devastated Pakistan....

Police are investigating the death of a 16-year-old boy who drowned in the Yarra River in Melbourne....

The State Government has switched on a new pipeline which will see an additional 1700 million litres of water be pumped into Lake Wendouree in Ballarat....

The Greens' Adam Bandt talks to Jon Faine...

The economic rise of China will signal the end of US military supremacy in the Pacific and have terrible consequences for Australia. War is one possibility argues this outspoken international relations expert....

This November the United States holds midterm elections and given present polling, the Republicans are hoping to pull back the gains made by Barack Obama. Some say this could result in political gridlock. But writer David Harsanyi argues this is not a bad thing. ...

Minority government is set to change the way politics is conducted in Australia. New political alliances are being forged and parliamentary reform is on the agenda. But how much policy compromise will it involve? And how long will it last?...

Hans Post was in the Nazi SS, and at the end of the Second World War lied about his war history in order to avoid prosecution. He was imprisoned in the French prisoner of war camp Thoree le Pins. There he witnessed suicide and starvation and emerged after 6 months weighing only 78 pounds. He found his ...

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 ...