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3105-08
The Federal Government says its national fuel watch scheme would be optional in regional areas.
3105-08
Heavy rain is expected in Perth this morning after a low pressure system crossed the south-west coast overnight
3103-08
Greek officials have handed over the Olympic flame to organisers of the Beijing Olympics.
3103-08
The front-runner in the Alice Springs mayoral race is yet to claim victory but admits he is already planning for how he will shape the town's future.
3103-08
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says he has confirmed face-to-face meetings
3103-08
South Australia's rate of population growth is at its fastest since 1975.
3103-08
Police say a 19-year-old is lucky to be alive after he was rescued from a car hanging off a bridge and attached only by the safety rail in the New South Wales Hunter region.
3101-08
Emergency services are keeping a close watch on the flooded Fitzroy River which is expected to peak in Rockhampton overnight.
3101-08
FEDERAL, state and territory health ministers will meet in Melbourne today to discuss a raft of reforms for the country's health system.
3006-08
AN independent think-tank has urged the Government to adopt a HECS-style maternity leave scheme that would allow new parents to take up to nine months' leave.
3005-08
Doctors in the Northern Territory have hailed as "a miracle" a newborn baby who has survived a full-term ovarian pregnancy.
3005-08
Rural businesses say the only way the Federal Government can ease the oil price pain is to cut fuel tax.
3004-08
Retired and graduate guide dogs will be honoured in a special ceremony in Adelaide today as part of International Guide Dog Day.
3004-08
Scientists working with the Queensland Department of Primary Industries (DPI) say they have successfully produced the first man-made clones of the historic Tree of Knowledge.
3004-08
Police in Sydney have charged two BASE jumpers who landed in front of a police car in Sydney's CBD early this morning.
3004-08
The Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) chief executive Steve Sant says it is immoral to recruit overseas doctors to cover shortages in country Australia.
3004-08
Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) president John Coates says Australia's Olympic team is better prepared at this stage than it has been for previous Games.
3004-08
A new apple variety which does not brown when it is cut and exposed to air has been launched.
3003-08
Earth Hour organisers say their online polling shows more than 50 per cent of households in each state participated in the event.
3003-08
Earth Hour returned to Australia on Saturday night, with Sydney's postcard-perfect harbour again temporarily plunged into darkness.
At 8pm (AEDT), the harbour bridge and its neighbouring Opera House dimmed from flood-lit tourism icons to still recognis
At 8pm (AEDT), the harbour bridge and its neighbouring Opera House dimmed from flood-lit tourism icons to still recognis
3003-08
Australian Olympic Committee chief John Coates believes the swim team is on track to improve on their record medal haul from Athens at this year's Beijing Olympic Games.
3003-08
The Governor-General has unveiled a bronze bust of the outback mailman Tom Kruse in the Adelaide Hills in South Australia.
3003-08
Australian governments need to consider using all available water resource options, not just desalination technology, says a senior scientist with the Australian Water Association.
3001-08
The NSW government is planning to raise the state's school leaving age from 15 up to 16, or even possibly 18, from the start of next year.
3001-08
Australia's oil companies have been summoned to meet the competition watchdog, the A-triple-C, to explain high fuel prices over the Australia Day long weekend
2905-08
CHANNEL Nine has forced Sam Newman to take a break from television after the furore over his treatment of women on The Footy Show.Newman has also been told to attend counselling for his recent behaviour, which included manhandling a lingerie-clad mannequi
2905-08
The Federal Government has reversed a $250 million Budget decision to cut funding to Regional Partnerships programs.
2905-08
THE alcopops tax has driven drinkers to the bottle - of full-strength spirits, a liquor industry survey of alcohol sales has found.
2904-08
Australian and French movie-makers have arrived in Townsville, north Queensland, to continue working on what is claimed to be the biggest-budget cinema documentary ever produced
2904-08
Police have questioned a man over the stabbing of another man during a violent road rage incident this afternoon.
2904-08
St John Ambulance has offered paramedics a 15 per cent pay rise over three years.
2904-08
Darwin 'Toadbusters' caught about 180 small sized cane toads across the northern suburbs last night
2904-08
The APEC-related case against members of ABC TV's The Chaser's War on Everything has been dropped.
2903-08
More than 20 cities around the world will switch off their lights in the climate change awareness event Earth Hour tonight.
2903-08
The federal government will ease the tax burden of low and middle-income earners in this year's budget, Treasurer Wayne Swan said.
2902-08
A FUGITIVE accused of murdering his wife and abandoning his toddler at a Melbourne railway station has been captured in the US.
2902-08
AUSTRALIAN magazine New Idea is at the centre of a storm over the media's breaking of a news blackout on Prince Harry's deployment in Afghanistan.
2901-08
AMY Rix needed more than gum boots to tackle the Darling River yesterday. About 15 months ago, the Wentworth youngster became the face of regional Australia's drought plight when she was pictured jumping over a trickle of water that was all that remained
2901-08
Adelaide's south to introduce greater competition and lower prices to the petrol market.
2805-08
SEVENTEEN hospitals will be given funding to establish 24-hour emergency community mental health care under measures in next week's state budget.
2805-08
Telstra's directories and advertising business Sensis plans to build its revenue streams by opening up its Trading Post website to online auctions, and take market share from industry leader eBay.
2804-08
There has been record cold weather in some parts of South Australia, just a few weeks after the state had set heatwave records.
2804-08
A proposal to put digital cameras in classrooms to help decide which teachers deserve a pay rise is going too far, federal Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson says.
2804-08
A learner driver has been clocked travelling at nearly 160km/h in Sydney's south-west.
2804-08
The family of the Australian soldier killed yesterday in Afghanistan has described his pride at being an Army commando.
2804-08
For the first time the number of mobile phones in Australia exceeds the population, with recent growth being driven by a dramatic increase in 3-G phones.
2803-08
The organisers of next month's 2020 summit say the final list of 1,000 participants represents the country's diversity.
2803-08
Actress turned pop diva Kylie Minogue will announce her marriage to French actor Olivier Martinez at a concert on May 12, a Czech website said.
2803-08
CANBERRA (Reuters) - A cattle farmer in Australia's remote northern outback on Friday said he had found a giant ball of twisted metal, which he believes is space junk from a rocket used to launch communications satellites.
2803-08
Hobart-based publisher "Images of Antarctica" has scooped the pool at this year's world calendar awards.
2802-08
A BACKPACKER has ditched plans to go fruit picking in New Zealand after winning $1 million in Lotto during his second day in the country.
2802-08
ONE of two fishermen lost at sea after their fishing trawler sank off the coast of Byron Bay in northern NSW has been found alive.
2801-08
Novak Djokovic has carved his name into tennis folklore with a watershed victory over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in an enthralling Australian Open final at Melbourne Park.
2801-08
International cricketers have paid tribute to Australia wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist, who announced yesterday he will retire at the end of the summer season.
2706-08
Imagine you are just about to turn 70, and you decide to sell your house, buy a four-wheel drive and devote your life to travelling around the bush helping others.
2705-08
In an Australian first, NSW HSC students will from next year be able to take a course in studying Wikipedia, the online collaborative encyclopedia.
2705-08
A TEAM of Australian, French and Scottish archaeologists was expecting to unearth the first remnants of up to 170 Australian soldiers overnight, resolving a mystery that has haunted their families for more than 90 years.
2704-08
A light plane has come down in trees during an emergency landing near Cooktown in Far North Queensland.
2704-08
An extensive land and air search is underway in northern NSW for a bushwalker who went missing on an Anzac Day hike.
2704-08
A new report has revealed tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use is falling among Australians, but the country's young people are still putting themselves at risk.
2704-08
New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark and NSW Premier Morris Iemma have dedicated a statue of a New Zealand soldier on Sydney's Anzac Bridge, at a ceremony attended by Australian and New Zealand war veterans.
2704-08
Hobart's Salamance Place will host a unique endurance race today.
2703-08
Victoria Police have recognised a three-and-a-half year old boy who called 000 after his mother had an epileptic fit on Monday.
2703-08
A drunken miner was only seconds away from being attacked by a crocodile in Australia's northern waters when police saved his life by shooting at the reptile.
Horrified onlookers watched from the shore outside the Alyangula Recreation Club on Groote Ey
Horrified onlookers watched from the shore outside the Alyangula Recreation Club on Groote Ey
2703-08
Eight-times world surfing champion Kelly Slater has won his second tour event of the year, taking out the Rip Curl Pro at Victoria's Bells Beach.
2703-08
The discovery of a meteorite crater in Western Australia's Pilbara has sparked a huge search on the internet for similar geographical features.
2703-08
The Central Irrigation Trust says a new national authority which will take control of the Murray-Darling Basin will have to consider a wide range of interests.
2703-08
Cronulla prop Ben Ross has been suspended for seven weeks for striking Melbourne Storm halfback Cooper Cronk.
2702-08
IT has been a cool and wet summer across eastern Australia, and autumn is shaping up to produce more of the same.
But temperatures over the nation as a whole have been slightly warmer than normal.
But temperatures over the nation as a whole have been slightly warmer than normal.
2701-08
Australian of the Year Lee Kernaghan has picked up three Golden Guitars at the Country Music Awards in Tamworth.
2701-08
Australia Day citizenship ceremonies have seen more 14,000 immigrants from 114 countries take the pledge to become Australian citizens.
2606-08
Kimberley pastoralists are today mourning the death of what many say was one of the last remaining gentlemen of the bush.
2605-08
Lauren Huxley counts it a blessing that she remembers nothing about the "monster" who beat her to a pulp, doused her in petrol and left her to die.
2605-08
RICHARD NEELY said he waved frantically to fellow crew members before he and his partner were left to drift in shark-inhabited waters on the Great Barrier Reef for 20 hours in a diving trip that went horribly wrong.
2604-08
INCREASED food and petrol prices, and rising interest rates, are creating a new class of "white collar battlers", welfare groups warn
2604-08
Celebrities of all stripes are putting money into schools with creative learning that might help children get a job. Samantha Selinger-Morris reports.
2604-08
Thousands of people on the New South Wales mid-north coast remain isolated from flooding after several days of rain.
2604-08
Leisel Jones and Libby Trickett set new shortcourse world records at a grand prix meet in Canberra on Saturday.
2604-08
Debutant Steven Browne helped Carlton back to a 7.11 (53) to 6.7 (43) lead at half-time, after a second-term resurgence by the Adelaide Crows at the MCG on Saturday afternoon.
2604-08
The Women's Electoral Lobby has welcomed planned tax cuts for working mothers, but has questioned how many women will benefit from them.
2603-08
Australian and American passengers on a Qantas plane forced to abort takeoff at Los Angeles international airport on Monday night have recalled the dramatic moments as the Boeing 747 braked heavily on the runway and blew three tyres.
2603-08
Victoria has agreed to sign on to the Murray-Darling Basin water plan, following a Federal Government announcement that the state will receive an extra $1 billion in funding.
2603-08
A year-long study from the Federal Government's advisory group on drugs has found drug testing in schools would be a waste of money.
2602-08
There is an unusual mayoral contest shaping up in Queensland's south-west.
2602-08
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced the list of 11 prominent Australians who will help select the participants for the 2020 summit to be held in April.
2601-08
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has used his Australia Day message to urge people to contribute more to their local communities.
2601-08
Lee Kernaghan Australian of the Year
Casey Stoner Young Australian of the Year
David Bussau Senior Australian of the Year
Casey Stoner Young Australian of the Year
David Bussau Senior Australian of the Year
2506-08
A 4500-head dairy feedlot may be built at Merbein, near Mildura in Victoria's north-west.
2506-08
Grain growers in eastern Australia are more optimistic about their next harvest, after rain in the past month
2505-08
TWO divers found alive after drifting for 19 hours when they vanished off the Whitsunday Islands survived by strapping themselves together and remaining calm.
2505-08
A large-scale search and rescue operation will resume for a 49-year-old man from Melbourne's west who failed to return from a week-long camping trip.
2505-08
SYDNEYSIDERS Cheryl and Nikki Bart yesterday became the first mother and daughter duo to climb Mount Everest.
2504-08
Thousands of people have attended the Anzac Day dawn service in Brisbane.
2504-08
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.
2504-08
Thousands have braved the pre-dawn morning and the onset of rain in Sydney to remember all those who made the ultimate sacrifice for Australia at today's Anzac Day dawn service.
2504-08
The South Australian Government and the CSIRO have moved to reassure the population that the state's drinking water is safe after heavy metals were found near the Lower Lakes of the River Murray.
2504-08
About 10,000 Australians and New Zealanders have gathered at Anzac Cove in Gallipoli for the annual Anzac Day dawn service.
2504-08
Thousands of people are marching in Anzac Day parades in cities and towns across Australia to honour the service of Australia's war veterans and remember those who have given their lives in conflict.
2503-08
A 16-year-old boy was trying to flee the scene of the stabbing death of his father when officers arrived at the family's Sydney home this morning, police said.
2503-08
WORLD Boxing Association light heavyweight world champion Danny Green has tearfully confirmed he is quitting boxing immediately, saying he wants to get out of the fight game to protect himself and his family.
2502-08
Authorities say Sydney coped well during yesterday's Super Sunday, with no traffic chaos as the city hosted the visits of two cruise ships, two major sporting events and two dance parties.
2501-08
The boy from the bush is back in town, with country music star Lee Kernaghan named Australian of the Year for 2008.
2501-08
POLICE are interviewing two people in relation to the looting of flood-hit central Queensland houses.
2406-08
Many hundreds of South Australian doctors and country residents rallied outside Parliament House in Adelaide recently over Government's plan to restructure country hospital services.
2405-08
THE late-night pub crawl, and the fights that sometimes accompany it, are under threat with the states to consider new nationwide lockout provisions as part of the national assault on binge drinking.
2405-08
TRUCK drivers, reeling from rising fuel costs, have warned price increases will put pressure on maintenance and degrade safety
2404-08
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will attend a memorial service today for the crew of HMAS Sydney, which was sunk with all hands in 1941.
2404-08
This year's Centenary Test and City v Country Origin will be played under international rules, the Australian Rugby League (ARL) announced.
2404-08
Brownlow medallist Jimmy Bartel and fellow Geelong premiership-winner Cameron Ling have extended their AFL contracts with the Cats.
2404-08
New research suggests that up to a quarter of a million positions in the Australian workforce are going unfilled due to the skills shortage.
2404-08
Actor Daniel Radcliffe's search for a mystery Australian girl he met at an awards party has taken a twist worthy of his alter-ego Harry Potter
2404-08
There have been minor scuffles and scattered arrests as thousands of demonstrators watch the Olympic torch relay on its way through Canberra.
2404-08
The Canberra leg of the Beijing Olympics torch relay has wrapped up with the lighting of a cauldron after a largely peaceful running through the streets of the national's capital this morning.
2403-08
A SEARCH is under way for two men off Victoria's Phillip Island after one was washed off rocks by a freak wave.
2403-08
A BUSHFIRE is threatening 10 homes in Perth's south, fire authorities said today.
2403-08
IN an unprecedented experiment, a Japanese astronaut has thrown a boomerang in space and confirmed it flies back much like on Earth.
2403-08
ROYAL Life Saving has called on Australians to be extra vigilant in the water after a number of drownings over the Easter weekend.
2402-08
THE QE2 ocean liner docked at Sydney's Garden Island for the last time today.
2402-08
MORE than 10,000 flood victims have sought counselling as they struggle to get their lives back together after the record-breaking deluge which has inundated parts of central and northern Queensland.
2306-08
It's the start of winter, but it's warm and sunny. The sound of sticks hitting trees floats down from the upper levels of the olive grove. Olive growers in western Victoria have started harvesting and say this year is going to be a bumper crop.
2305-08
Manly have signed young Newcastle Knights five-eighth Chris Bailey for the next three NRL seasons.
2305-08
It's not your average fundraiser, but it has plenty of potential.
2304-08
Tasmania's Opposition is demanding action from the government to fix the water shortage on the East Coast.
2304-08
Motorists are being urged to drive safely over the next few days as traffic increases over the Anzac Day long weekend.
2304-08
THREE men who risked their lives to save a family from their burning home will be nominated for bravery awards.
2304-08
THE plane carrying the Beijing Olympics flame has landed in Canberra ahead of tomorrow's torch relay through the heart of the national capital.
2304-08
A rare pygmy killer whale has been rescued off South Australia's west coast.
2304-08
The Tasmanian Government has announced a $2.5 million package to help drought-affected farmers.
2303-08
Gold Coast lifeguards are pleading with swimmers not to enter the water outside patrol hours, after the death of 27-year-old man early this morning.
2303-08
Stephanie Rice smashed the world record in the women's 400 metres individual medley on the opening night of the Australian Olympic swimming trials in Sydney on Saturday.
2302-08
HOLDEN and Ford have been ranked at the bottom of a national survey of car buyer satisfaction.
2302-08
SOUTHEAST Queensland will today experience its hottest day so far this year, with forecasters expecting a high of 36 degrees.
2301-08
Tears and rain fell at the premiere of The Prairie Oysters debut single
Last weekend The Prairie Oysters made their way back up to Northern Victoria to perform for the local drought affected communties of Rochester and Lockington.
Last weekend The Prairie Oysters made their way back up to Northern Victoria to perform for the local drought affected communties of Rochester and Lockington.
2301-08
Heath Ledger has been found dead at a downtown Manhattan residence. New York Police believe the actor's death to be "drug-related".
2301-08
HEATH Ledger joins a long list of Hollywood stars who died of a drug overdose at a young age.
2206-08
A Queensland academic says the way to stop rural towns from dying is by encouraging more creative people to move in.
2205-08
V8 Supercars Chief Executive Officer, Wayne Cattach, has confirmed that V8 Supercars Australia is investigating possible rule changes which could make the series more attractive to other manufacturers.
2205-08
It's a track normally braved by those in 4WDs, but this year 170 pushbike riders took on the challenge of riding the Gibb River Road.
2204-08
The New South Wales Branch of the RSL says it is asking the descendants of war veterans to march at the end of the Anzac Day parade this year.
2204-08
Australian opthamologists say they are well on the way to fulfilling the dream of implanting a permanent bionic eye into a patient.
2204-08
A Brisbane lawyer is leading a new push to provide affordable housing across Queensland.
2204-08
Seven World War II veterans have visited the Anzac memorial in Sydney's Hyde Park ahead of their journey to Israel for the dedication of a memorial to the Australian Light Horse.
2204-08
Cigarette vending machines could soon be a thing of the past in NSW as the state government moves to introduce Australia's toughest anti-smoking laws.
2204-08
FOLLOWING the success of Underbelly, viewers are set to see more Australian crime drama on television, with the ABC announcing it is about to start filming a new telemovie, based on an infamous true story from early last century.
2203-08
The leader of the successful search for HMAS Sydney says they will be heading out again this weekend to film the wrecks and the battle site.
2203-08
A GIGGLING baby, a guy who demonstrates how to cheat the Rubik's Cube and accapella finger puppets bombed out of Hogwarts have been voted the top videos on YouTube.
2202-08
A young singer from Perth is winning over US audiences and has been named an early favourite to be crowned the next American Idol.
2202-08
THE Federal Opposition has offered the government bipartisan support on tackling climate change if it adopts several coalition policies.
2106-08
The struggles facing the man on the land are making the move to the mines a more and more lucrative option every day.
2105-08
THEY have stood across the ruck from each other for 13 State of Origin matches now, rarely fixing eyes but acutely aware of their rivalry and responsibility, one man having what the other wants.
2105-08
A woman who survived on rainwater and a man fed via a straw were pulled out of the rubble eight days after China's earthquake but hopes faded for others as the death toll topped 40,000.
2105-08
After years of telecommununications companies luring customers with free handsets if they sign long-term contracts, Telstra has begun what is likely to be the next industry trend — "free" laptops.
2104-08
Organisers of the Olympic torch relay in Canberra say torchbearers will stick to main roads when the relay is run this Thursday.
2104-08
Tasmanian breast cancer survivors took to the waters yesterday in a new dragon boat aimed at helping women recover.
2104-08
Queensland farmers say they are in for another tough year because of drought.
2104-08
A thief broke into the headquarters of Austria's ruling political party by wriggling through a post flap in the front door, a party official says
2104-08
AUSTRALIA has extended its continental shelf under an agreement with the United Nations.
2104-08
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has indicated he is keen to undertake a major reform of Australia's tax system.
2103-08
THE Victorian government will spend $33 million helping households in regional and rural Victoria switch to solar hot water.
2103-08
AS motorists head off on their Easter long weekend trips, the debate continues to rage about whether they're being ripped off at the petrol pump.
2102-08
A Victorian Government buyback of irrigator entitlements to underpin a guaranteed minimum irrigation allocation are among options.
2102-08
EIGHTEEN passengers on board a Qantas flight had a nerve-wracking time when their plane malfunctioned and its crew was forced to use a back-up system to lower its nose wheel before making an emergency landing.
2005-08
PINNED by two rocks 80 metres underground, the diabetic caver Geoffrey McDonnell was freezing and passed in and out of consciousness at least twice.
2005-08
HOLDEN, the company that sold more V8s last year than any other time in its 60-year history, will sell a petrol-electric Commodore "within two years" - but it wants the Federal Government to give hybrid cars a tax break.
2005-08
Victorian environment officers have seized hundreds of illegal weeds after they were found on sale at retailer Big W
2005-08
Farmers in Tasmania's central highlands have welcomed news that an emergency water pipeline to the Clyde River could be ready by later this year
2004-08
South Sydney's woeful start to the NRL season continued as it coughed up a 10-point lead in a 30-10 whipping by Wests Tigers at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Sunday afternoon.
2004-08
Three teenage boys have been found after they went missing on the Central Coast of New South Wales yesterday.
2004-08
Nearly 2,500 people are warming up on Brisbane's South Bank this morning to compete in the 18th annual Brisbane Marathon.
2004-08
Participants in the 2020 summit will return to Parliament House this morning for the event's second and final day.
2004-08
The 2020 summit has drawn to a close, with the 10 discussion groups detailing the ideas they have developed
2003-08
A delegation of rural women from across Australia have met with Government ministers in Canberra this week.
2003-08
NEW statistics show Australians are increasingly switching off TV in favour of the internet, but YouTube co-founder Steve Chen said television executives wouldn't be wringing their hands as yet.
2003-08
Parliament has today approved the establishment of Infrastructure Australia – a new national body
2002-08
Australia will also retain its 100-member security detachment in Baghdad which guards Australian diplomats. A number of Australian officers attached to the coalition headquarters will also remain.
2002-08
The Professor of Water Economics at Adelaide University, Mike Young, says management of the Murray system has failed irrigators.
2002-08
Country music legend Smoky Dawson has been farewelled with a private funeral in Sydney.
2002-08
AUSTRALIA has the know-how and the industrial capability to become a solar nation, but needs government and individuals to take action, the country's largest producer of solar energy products says.
1906-08
Macadamias are making their way north as Mackay is targeted as the next potential area for growing the nut. They are predominantly grown in the Bundaberg and Lismore areas but due to land prices, one company has moved further afield.
1905-08
A DIABETIC man trapped for at least two days in a rock fall at Wombeyan Caves slipped into unconsciousness after rescuers found him yesterday
1905-08
Researchers from Victoria are trying to find ways to encourage more teachers to work in rural communities.
1905-08
Whip-wielding archaeologist Indiana Jones hits the Cannes Film Festival in France tonight, with star Harrison Ford, director Steven Spielberg and creator George Lucas all hoping to avoid a critical lashing.
1905-08
THE accused Melbourne underworld figure Tony Mokbel was spirited under heavy guard to a Victorian high-security prison near Geelong over the weekend, but the disgraced music entrepreneur Glenn Wheatley is heading in the opposite direction.
1904-08
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Australian rock band AC/DC will release its first album since 2000 later this year, according to a posting on the group's Web site (http://www.acdc.com) Friday
1904-08
A Tasmanian farmer has put forward an idea to reduce Australians' dependence on plastic shopping bags - use the laundry basket.
1904-08
He might not be known for his singing voice, but the Prime Minister is about to join some high-profile artists to record a pop song celebrating this year's apology to the Stolen Generations.
1904-08
Northern Territory Chief Minister Paul Henderson says he will push for the Territory to become a state at this weekend's 2020 summit.
1904-08
Head of World Vision Tim Costello will propose struggling renters be able to get a special loan to buy their property at this weekend's 2020 summit in Canberra.
1904-08
X-Men and Boy from Oz star Hugh Jackman says he will use this weekend's 2020 summit to push for measures to encourage more Australian actors working overseas to come back home for projects.
1903-08
Ian Usher, from Perth in Western Australia, is offering his house, job, lifestyle and friends to the highest bidder in an online auction.
1903-08
An international conservation delegation visiting Tasmania is said to be lending weight to an extension of the state's Wilderness World Heritage Area.
1902-08
The Northern Territory Government says it will link policing, housing and community services in a $10 million dollar plan to address the increase in Indigenous people sleeping rough in Darwin.
1902-08
The majority of NSW is in for the coolest February in 50 years.
1806-08
If John Harper had his way he wouldn't be standing in front of the crowd at the Manilla CWA hall. If things were going better on his farm he'd quite happily stay there.
1805-08
Weather forecasters are warning of more cold weather across south-east Queensland, with the mercury expected to fall even further over the next day or so.
1805-08
The most violent pubs and clubs in the state have been ordered to show why they shouldn't be shut down under a new crackdown on licensed premises
1805-08
THE residents of a large NSW country town have successfully fought a bid by authorities and shopping-centre developers to install a set of traffic lights in the main street.
1804-08
Nick D'Arcy's coach Brian Stehr says the media played a big part in the Australian Olympic Committee's decision to drop the swimmer from the team for Beijing.
1804-08
A national review of drought and exceptional circumstances (EC) policy is to be completed by the end of the year.
1804-08
Former Newcastle half-back Andrew Johns was the most recently active player to be selected in rugby league's Team of the Century
1804-08
Western Australian researchers say they have made a world first discovery that could boost the chances of successfully treating life threatening cancers.
1803-08
As South Australia's heatwave finally abates, the state's livestock producers are counting the cost of the latest blow.
1803-08
Melbourne experienced its hottest overnight temperature for the month of March last night.
1803-08
Organisers say they have planned this year's Sydney Royal Easter Show with the economy in mind.
1802-08
MELBOURNE'S intensive care ambulance service is collapsing as it loses elite paramedics, a union says.
1802-08
PETROL retailers would have to notify consumers of their pump prices a day in advance under a West Australian model to be considered for a national rollout.
1706-08
A family from a remote cattle station in Western Australia's Pilbara region could be nominated for a bravery award after rescuing two truck drivers from the swollen Nullagine River.
1705-08
SYDNEY has been eclipsed by Melbourne as the nation's leading tourist destination, new figures show, earning $400 million more from domestic travel than its northern rival last year
1705-08
This month the Royal Flying Doctor Service celebrates its 80th birthday.
1704-08
Ambulance workers say fewer drivers are moving out of the way of emergency vehicles.
1704-08
The Australian National University's Vice Chancellor, Ian Chubb, says there is an urgent need for a review into the costs students bear when they move away from home for tertiary study.
1704-08
Federal and state Environment Ministers have failed to reach a national agreement on banning plastic bags
1703-08
Almost 67 years after her father's ship, HMAS Sydney, was sunk in battle in World War II, Adelaide woman Barbara Craill has broken down in tears on hearing its wreckage has finally been found.
1703-08
PEOPLE from all walks of life have today been recognised for great acts of bravery - which in some cases cost them their life.
1703-08
TWO men have been found clinging to their overturned catamaran after a 34-hour ordeal at sea off the New South Wales south coast, police say.
1702-08
Forecasting authorities say Tropical Cyclone Nicholas near the coast of Western Australia will hit land early on Monday, with winds of up to 200 kilometres an hour.
1702-08
IF you're a middle-aged man, you're likely to spend big online, and NSW buyers spend more than their interstate counterparts, according to the results of a new national survey.
1606-08
The number plates in Wyalkatchem read: 'funny name, great people.' By the looks of the 50-strong crowd that gathered for The Country Hour's broadcast at the Wyalkatchem District Club, the locals can't get enough of each other.
1605-08
The Menzies Research Institute hopes to take the mystery out of multiple sclerosis(MS), with a study investigating factors that predict the rate of progression of the disease.
1605-08
Water carters in Tasmania's south-east are supplying water to farms and vineyards for the first time because it is so dry.
1605-08
THE words had been building up inside of Pat Huxley for more than two years
1604-08
Police in Canberra have been given extra powers to search people and seize items during the Olympic torch relay next week.
1604-08
A ship carrying relatives of the men who died aboard HMAS Sydney has travelled to the site of the wreckage for a dawn commemorative service.
1603-08
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has shrugged off claims the Federal Government is being hypocritical by planning a kangaroo cull in Canberra while criticising Japanese whaling.
1603-08
THE cat was out of the bag on a proposed plastic bag tax despite federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett's denials, Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson says.
1602-08
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Ash Wednesday bushfires, which claimed the lives of 75 people in Victoria and South Australia.
1602-08
TWO boys feared missing have been found in flood-devastated Mackay where an estimated 1000 homes have been inundated by a deluge that delivered 625mm of rain.
1506-08
The small community of Batchelor, about 100 kilometres south of Darwin, is fast becoming the belly dancing capital of northern Australia.
1505-08
The federal opposition says funding cuts announced in the budget have ruined the 80th birthday celebrations of the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS).
1505-08
A girl murmuring "save me, save me" has been pulled from the rubble, 50 hours after her school was destroyed in China's earthquake but hundreds of her fellow pupils died, state media said.
1505-08
Google has surpassed Yahoo to become the most popular website in the United States, according to comScore's rankings by the number of unique monthly visitors.
1505-08
AS SOPHIE DELEZIO lay swathed in bandages and clinging to life, the toddler's mother looked into her eyes and saw only pain.
1505-08
Flights out of Sydney Airport have been grounded and incoming flights have been diverted because of heavy fog.
1505-08
AUSTRALIANS working in London's financial district are returning home in droves, attracted by job opportunities presented by their native country's strong economy, a UK study has found.
1504-08
Former prime minister John Howard has told a gathering of Libera