The NSW Government is in talks with the Royal Australia Navy to free up space in Sydney Harbour for the city's booming cruise ship industry.

A civil trial is underway in the Victorian Supreme Court as environmentalists try to save an endangered species of possum.

The New York Giants again proved the New England Patriots' nemesis, defeating Bill Belichick's side in the Super Bowl for the second time in four years.

Calm conditions have returned to far north Queensland, with Tropical Cyclone Jasmine continuing to move east in the Coral Sea towards Vanuatu.

Police investigating the suspicious death of a woman in Sydney's north have revealed a man who was living with her died in a fiery road crash over the weekend.

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has launched a flood relief appeal, with the State Government contributing $2 million.

There was a surprise fall in retail turnover in the key Christmas shopping period, but official figures offer a glimmer of hope for department stores and fashion retailers.

The Queensland Government is facing a potential class action worth hundreds of millions of dollars over last year's floods in south-east Queensland.