Transport operators also hurting
Posted on 9 May, 2008
While Shepparton motorists endure Victoria's highest petrol prices, the city's transport operators are also suffering under the weight of the rapidly rising cost of diesel.
...more
Horror Budget or horror interest rates: analyst
Posted on 9 May, 2008
A leading economic forecaster says Treasurer Wayne Swan will have to deliver a horror Budget on Tuesday - or Australians can expect horror interest rates.
...more
Alcohol boosts cancer risk by 75pc: experts
Posted on 8 May, 2008
A new study has found drinking just two standard alcoholic drinks a day significantly increases the risks of developing breast, bowel, throat and mouth cancer.
...more
Australia not ready for major natural disaster: think tank
Posted on 7 May, 2008
A report to be released today finds that Australia has more to fear from natural disasters than a terrorist attack.
...more
More than 10,000 killed in Buma cyclone
Posted on 6 May, 2008
Burma says more than 10,000 people died in the cyclone that battered the impoverished nation, whose secretive military rulers made a rare appeal for international help to cope with the tragedy.
...more
Death toll rises in devastating Buma cyclone
Posted on 5 May, 2008
The death toll from a tropical cyclone that tore through Rangoon and Burma's Irrawaddy delta has risen to 351, a government official said, citing state media reports in the remote capital, Naypyidaw.
...more
Harbour crash victims named
Posted on 2 May, 2008
The identities of four of the six victims from yesterday's deadly boat crash on Sydney Harbour have been confirmed.
...more
Five dead in Sydney Habour crash
Posted on 1 May, 2008
Five young people are dead and nine have been injured after the overloaded small boat they were in was hit by a trawler in Sydney Harbour early this morning.
...more
Nelson backs same-sex law changes
Posted on 30 April, 2008
The Federal Opposition has given its in-principle support to proposed changes to moves to end discrimination against same-sex couples in areas like superannuation and tax.
...more
Georgiou repeats call to scap citizenship test
Posted on 29 April, 2008
Liberal backbencher Petro Georgiou says Australia's controversial new citizenship test should not just be reviewed - it should be scrapped altogether.
...more
Woman gunned down on doorstep
Posted on 28 April, 2008
A woman has been shot dead at a house in Frankston, south-east of Melbourne.
...more
Anzacs remembered as dawn services
Posted on 25 April, 2008
Thousands of people have gathered at Anzac Day dawn services around the country this morning, to mark the 93rd anniversary of Australian and New Zealand troops landing at Gallipoli.
...more
Territorians 'drink more, smoke more' - and are fatter: study
Posted on 24 April, 2008
Northern Territory men are fatter than the national average, according to a new study from the Chronic Disease Network.
...more
Olympic flame touches down in Canberra
Posted on 23 April, 2008
The Olympic flame has landed amid tight security at the Canberra airport RAAF base.
...more
Rudd tax review sparks call to hike GST
Posted on 22 April, 2008
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's support for a review of the tax system has sparked debate about raising the rate of the GST.
...more
2020 not just a rubber-stamping exercise: Rudd
Posted on 21 April, 2008
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has denied that the ideas from his 2020 summit are simply an endorsement of existing Government policies.
...more
US climate change plan 'disastrous and Neanderthal'
Posted on 18 April, 2008
US President George W Bush's plan to cap greenhouse gases by 2025 has been dismissed as "disastrous" and "Neanderthal" by some ministers at a climate change meeting in Paris.
...more
Childcare providers wary of PM's competition comments
Posted on 17 April, 2008
Not-for-profit childcare providers have welcomed Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's vision of childcare centres in 2020, saying it is what they have been advocating for decades, but have voiced concern over the commercialisation aspect.
...more
Seven dead in NZ river accident
Posted on 16 April, 2008
A canyoning trip in New Zealand has ended in tragedy, with six students and a teacher from Auckland found dead after they were swept away in a river.
...more
Alliance to use 2020 to tackle alcohol violence
Posted on 15 April, 2008
A new alliance will use the 2020 summit to lobby the Federal Government to take more action against alcohol-related violence.
...more
