June 20, 2013 Australia has lost 2 per cent of its birds already and another 20 bird species are considered at "imminent risk of extinction" according to a global report on the health of the world's birdlife.

June 20, 2013 Australians have a high level of trust in governments to protect their personal information from misuse, a survey has found.

June 20, 2013 At first it was miners and wharfies, then all sorts of tradesmen. Now a different generation of home renovators and others are being diagnosed with cancer after exposure to asbestos.

June 20, 2013 Melissa Doyle has announced that she is leaving Channel Seven's Sunrise after nearly 12 years on the breakfast show.

June 20, 2013 Julia Gillard is planning a trip to Indonesia in two weeks to discuss with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ways to stem the rising flow of asylum seekers coming by boat before the September election.

June 20, 2013 Holden is stepping up pressure on the federal Coalition to commit to funding for the automotive industry over the next decade.

June 20, 2013 The main change in politics since 2010 is that Australians have turned off Julia Gillard. While the polls show Labor is now facing a landslide defeat, its fall has been minor compared with the collapse of the Prime Minister's support.

June 20, 2013 Tim Cahill is bigger than Jesus, bigger than the Beatles even. Perhaps the only Australian whose nickname is longer than their chosen name, Timmy was embraced by the crowd and he hugged them right back, signing footballs and scarves and posing for photographs with children skipping school and skiving tradies in tell-tale fluorescents.

June 20, 2013 In this Refugee Week, Rosemarie Milsom discovers what it's like to cross the great divide.

June 20, 2013 After arriving in Australia from Guinea, Yarrie Bangura never thought she would, in a few years, be the star of the Baulkham Hills African Ladies dance troupe and an ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Putting it down to her zeal for life and her love of peace, she launched Australia's International Refugee Week, giving the keynote speech titled Restoring Hope.