April 15, 2013 More questions have been raised about the safety of flying in Indonesia as an investigation was launched into a Lion Air plane that crashed into the sea in Bali.

April 15, 2013 DataDot Technology Limited, a CSIRO partner company which knowingly sold a compromised anti-counterfeit device to one of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies, has announced a top-level inquiry into the affair as shares in the company reopened for trading at 10am this morning.

April 15, 2013 NSW will be expected to contribute an extra $1.6 billion towards school funding reforms over the next six years and will be prevented from making further education cuts, under the plans announced by the federal government.

April 15, 2013 A US military strategy being mapped out to deal with the growing power of China in the western Pacific - a plan that would inevitably ensnare Australia - could escalate into a nuclear war, experts warn.

April 15, 2013 Support for Prime Minister Julia Gillard's government has slumped further since she vanquished her leadership rival Kevin Rudd, a poll shows.

April 15, 2013 The quality of university education will be the worst casualty of the federal government's tertiary funding cuts, a leading education analyst says.

April 15, 2013 A Sydney park is home for a number of New Zealanders who have fallen through society's cracks.

April 15, 2013 Australia's experience in managing the water of the Murray-Darling Basin is being used to help India address one of the world's most serious looming water crises.

April 15, 2013 The actor says he has lost his stashed earnings, write Kate McClymont and Francois Pilet.

April 14, 2013 Alan Moir, The Sydney Morning Herald's political cartoonist, sketches the political unreality.