There'll be no nickname instead the AFL's 17th side will be simply the Gold Coast Football Club.
Collingwood defender Shane Wakelin may have played his last game of AFL football.
West Australian's may also get a new Premier after tomorrow's State election, with internal Labor polling showing the Liberals will cross the line first.
Professor Ross Garnaut has released his latest report on climate change, outlining the carbon reduction requirements that are needed, in his opinion.
Six time gold medal winner Russell Short will carry the flag for Australia tomorrow at the opening of the Paralympics in Beijing.
A chapter has been written into Australia's history books with the swearing in of our first female Governor-General.
The death toll in Haiti from tropical storm Hanna has soared to 136 people, as in the aftermath it causes flooding and landslides.
Father's day has come a little early for Sydney Swans coach, Paul Roos, who has been named Australia Father of the Year.
West Australian Premier Alan Carpenter is talking down his chances of winning tomorrow's state election.
Australia has a new Governor-General and for the first time it's a woman.
Households will be told today how much the government climate change plan is going to cost.
Quentin Bryce is sworn in as Australia's first female Governor-General.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd thinks the appointment of Australia's first female Governor General will show girls they can do anything.
The Defence Force has dismissed claims an Australian World War II airman has been discovered on the Kokoda track.
Professor Ross Garnaut will present the latest stage of his climate change report in Canberra today.
The condition of an Australian special forces soldier wounded in Afghanistan has improved.
UK authorities investigating the emergency landing of a British Airways flight have warned it could happen again.
A British man has been reunited with the father he thought he cremated five years ago.
Australia's advertising watchdog says it won't act on complaints about a commercial for a mobile phone.
A large chunk of ice has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern arctic.
They are often castigated as South Australia's public enemy number one - and today irrigators from interstate came to South Australia.
Sir Elton John is renowned for his public temper tantrums, but he seems to have met his match.
Princess Mary has a new family portrait to take home after stepping out in Sydney this morning.
Sixty people are dead and thousands homeless as tropical storm Hanna battles Haiti.
The condition of the Australian soldier critically injured in a gun battle with Taliban forces in Afghanistan is improving.
Princess Mary has stepped out in Sydney for a family photo.
Former Prime Minister John Howard has had a dig at the government during a dinner celebrating the former government.
A series of studies in the US have a linked a popular cholesterol lowering drug to cancer.
More than 60 people are dead and many more homeless after tropical storm Hanna smashed into Haiti
Defence experts have warned the situation in Afghanistan is growing more dangerous by the day.
Songstress Lily Allen has gotten on the wrong side of Sir Elton John at the GQ Awards in Britain.
Today's top sports stories.
A base jumper in Norway has miraculously survived after his parachute got caught on a cliff.
A jewellery store in Japan has created dinnerwear worth over a million dollars.
Australia's sex discrimination minister has proposed an offsider to champion the rights of men.
Haiti's President says his country is in the midst of an extraordinary catastrophe.
A Melbourne writer has been locked up in Thailand accused of committing crimes against the country's royal family.
Australian cycling coach Rick Lee has been ordered to stand trial in the US on teen rape charges.
The New Zealand man accused of dumping his daughter in Melbourne after murdering his wife will today enter a plea.