AS Kevin Rudd's Labor government delivered its first budget in 2008, the corridors of power in Canberra were also dealing with a nation-shaping issue -- the potential restructure of the Australian banking market.

David Murray has joined a chorus of opposition towards the Rudd government's proposed super profits tax on mining. Source: Bloomberg THE head of the Rudd government's $61 billion Future Fund has called for the proposed mining super-profits tax to be ...

Fair Work Australia has granted Australia's lowest paid workers a wage increase of $26 a week. (Getty Images: Ian Waldie) The Federal Opposition says the industrial umpire got its maths wrong when it handed down its minimum wage decision ...

Woo hoo, you are just two days away from the glamour, sparkle and excitement of the MTV Movie Awards! That means you are also two more days away from getting to see our exclusive premiere of another "Eclipse" scene!

Billy Corgan and the band from Chicago who hit the mainstream big time in the early 90s with their album Siamese Dream and then the 1995 hit album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness have just confirmed a series of intimate American shows and today ...

Christina Aguilera has gone from Disney poppet to “Dirrty” sleaze queen to the burlesque torch singer of her last album, 2006's Back to Basics.

Children who eat over a certain amount of burgers a week may be at a higher risk of asthma and wheezing, according to a new study published in Thorax.

A group of people suffering Parkinson's disease is launching a class action claiming their medication has caused gambling and sex addiction.

Aircraft passengers are most at risk of catching swine flu from previously infected people sitting near them, rather than through the plane's ventilation system, research shows.