April 30, 2013 A Chinese doctor accused of overseeing the harvesting of organs from political prisoners for transplantation should be stripped of an honorary professorship awarded by the University of Sydney, academics say.

April 30, 2013 Medical Association drops opposition to scheme that would shine a light on pharmaceutical companies' payments.

April 30, 2013 Rithy Lay was about four years old when his mother, father, older brother and younger sister were slaughtered. They were victims in 1975 in ''the killing fields'' of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime of Cambodian dictator Pol Pot.

April 30, 2013 Families comprise an increasing proportion of the nation's homeless but there is a dire shortage of suitable accommodation for them, says a new report.

April 29, 2013 A coach who claimed he was sacked from a volunteer position because he was white has had his claim of racial discrimination against Robert de Castella dismissed.

April 29, 2013 Christian groups want a referendum on gay marriage, saying Australians will reject any change to the status quo if the question posed was a ''black and white'' choice on whether to allow ''homosexuals to marry''.

April 29, 2013 They were billed as ''black diamonds'' and an opportunity to get rich quick but it has now emerged that parts of the truffle industry in Australia are in dire straits, with some growers abandoning their orchards.

April 29, 2013 Australians could vote in a referendum on gay marriage in September under a radical proposal being pushed by independent MP Tony Windsor and supported by the Greens and other crossbenchers.

April 29, 2013 Public service unions have vowed to fight against an industrial tribunal decision they said threatens the job security of 25,000 Australian Taxation Office workers. The Fair Work Commission upheld the tax bosses' right to force eight junior employees to re-apply for four positions, with no guarantee of jobs for the losers in the process.

April 29, 2013 The British government has ruled out paying ''act of grace'' compensation to Australian soldiers deliberately exposed to nuclear bomb testing at Maralinga in South Australia 61 years ago.