Most Australians have never heard her name, but WA's biggest diamond producer hopes Hong Kong celebrity Louisa So Yuk Wa will help launch it into one of the world's fastest-growing jewellery markets.

The first delicate step in re-entering New Zealand’s Pike River Coal mine began today, as one of the mine’s survivors returned to work underground.The gas levels have been coming down inside the West Coast mine over the past couple of weeks.

Wayne Swan has threatened to blow a $2 billion hole in the Barnett Government's plan to lift royalty rates on iron ore miners, with every cent raised by the move likely to end up with other States and Territories.The Commonwealth Grants Commission has