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Hundreds of schools across NSW are being supplied with water, at a cost of $150,000 a month, after tests found lead levels much higher than safe maximum levels.

NATO's new commander in Afghanistan says the international coalition is "struggling to win" and about 15,000 more troops are needed, including from Australia.

The government will not lift its ban on uranium sales to India despite the move by supplier nations, including Australia, to end a embargo on the trade.

Mothers and babies at a new $250 million maternity hospital in Melbourne are at risk because of a drastic shortage of money, staff and resources, reports say.

NSW Premier Nathan Rees is to name the ministers he expects to deliver on Labor's "one chance at fixing" the state's economic woes, and his party's credibility.

The search by a fleet of light aircraft and helicopters for two missing yachtsmen enters its fourth day off southern Queensland.

Queensland Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg will highlight the example of Western Australia's landmark weekend election in a team pep talk on Monday.

Counting resumes in the Western Australia election with the outcome still very much uncertain.

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) says forest clearing in Qld is wiping out tens of millions of animals and driving threatened wildlife to the brink of extinction.

Rescue authorities have shifted the search for two Australian sailors after spending several days looking in the wrong area.

Two men have been charged following the death of a man in hospital after a nightclub fight in Melbourne early Sunday.

A motor racing official has been struck and killed by an out of control ambulance at a race meeting near Perth.

The Health Services Union (HSU) says NSW government was warned by its own department not to close Sydney's Westmead Morgue.