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 2010-09-01 03:58     ABC News Online    Hawks stick by Tuck
Hawthorn Football Club says it will continue to support drug-suspended player Travis Tuck by keeping open a rookie spot on its playing list....

 2010-09-01 03:58     ABC News Online    Fatal crash driver may have been high, court told
A teenager may have been coming down from a drug high when she crashed a car near Shepparton in northern Victoria, killing three people, a court has been told....

 2010-09-01 03:43     ABC News Online    Citizens assembly not dead: Gillard
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has denied her deal with the Greens means she is dumping the contentious citizens assembly on climate change....

 2010-09-01 03:28     ABC News Online    Parklife moves back to Brisbane
Music festival Parklife has been moved back to Brisbane after roadworks on the Gold Coast threatened to cause traffic problems....

 2010-09-01 03:13     ABC News Online    GDP jump drives market 2pc higher
The Australian share market hit a three week high, gaining 2 per cent after a boost from the release of the better than expected GDP figures....

 2010-09-01 02:58     ABC News Online    Big bill for world's slowest pub crawl
A New Zealand pub has been painstakingly moved 40 metres up an Auckland hill to make way for a road tunnel....

 2010-09-01 02:58     ABC News Online    Anti-whaling game targets Japanese ships
The international debate over whaling in the Southern Ocean has entered a new frontier: video games....

 2010-09-01 02:43     ABC News Online    Pakistan air strike kills 45 militants
Pakistani government air raids have killed up to 45 militants and their family members in hideouts in the north-western Khyber region on the Afghan border, security officials say....

 2010-09-01 02:28     ABC News Online    Coalition's plan for safe-haven visa under fire
The Federal Government says the Coalition is wrong to suggest it could reintroduce a form of temporary protection visas without the authorisation of Parliament....

 2010-09-01 02:28     ABC News Online    Police end asylum seeker stand-off
A protest by asylum seekers outside Darwin's immigration detention centre has ended, seven-and-a-half hours after it began....

 2010-09-01 01:13     ABC News Online    Airline boss killed in PNG crash: reports
The co-owner of the airline whose plane crashed on a remote island in Papua New Guinea is believed to be among those killed....

 2010-09-01 01:13     ABC News Online    Uranium companies at odds on recording devices
A company involved in developing a uranium mine in the outback has lost an attempt to record confidential meetings....

 2010-09-01 00:43     ABC News Online    Hardie loses appeal, faces $370m tax bill
James Hardie has lost an appeal against the Tax Office, meaning it could be forced to pay about $370 million in tax liabilities....

 2010-09-01 00:43     ABC News Online    NSW minister resigns over computer use
NSW ports minister Paul McLeay has resigned after using his work computer to access gambling and adult websites....

 2010-09-01 00:28     ABC News Online    Drowned teen in state care
A teenager who drowned in the Yarra river in central Melbourne this week was an African refugee who was in state care....

 2010-09-01 00:28     ABC News Online    Girls fall 4m from open window
Two young girls have been taken to hospital after falling four metres from an open window onto concrete in Sydney's west....

 2010-09-01 00:28     ABC News Online    Response to Pakistan flood disaster 'pitifully slow'
Delegates at a United Nations conference in Melbourne have called for the international community to do more to help Pakistan deal with its flood crisis....

 2010-09-01 00:13     ABC News Online    Monk basher in drug crazed rage
The Supreme Court in Perth has been told a man who fatally bashed a Buddhist monk cannot provide any explanation for what he did....

 2010-09-01 00:13     ABC News Online    Abbott ridicules Labor-Greens alliance
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has attacked the Greens for not sitting down for serious negotiations with him before doing a deal to support a Labor minority government....

 2010-09-01 00:13     ABC News Online    Work camp prisoners sent to high security jail
The State Government says eight prisoners have been returned to a high security jail while allegations of inappropriate behaviour at a north Queensland work camp are investigated....

 2010-08-31 23:28     ABC News Online    Ceberano named Adelaide Cabaret Festival director
Singer Kate Ceberano will be the Adelaide Cabaret Festival's artistic director for 2012 and 2013....

 2010-08-31 23:28     Radio Australia    Australia's Greens, Labor parties seal political deal
 2010-08-31 23:28     Radio Australia    Airline co-owner among dead from PNG plane crash
 2010-08-31 22:58     ABC News Online    NSW Maritime lawyer acted corruptly: ICAC
New South Wales' anti-corruption body has found that an acting general counsel for NSW Maritime misused agency resources for her private conveyancing business....

 2010-08-31 22:58     ABC News Online    Exploding Qantas engine part 'could have hit passengers'
The aircraft engineers' association says it is lucky no passengers were hit by debris which blasted a hole in the engine casing of an airborne Qantas jet....

 2010-08-31 22:58     ABC News Online    Man gets 14 years' jail for strangling partner
A man has been jailed for 14-and-a-half years for strangling his former partner in Sydney's west last year....

 2010-08-31 22:58     ABC News Online    ID checks for all takeaway grog purchases in NT
Every time anyone wants to buy takeaway alcohol in the NT, their identification will be scanned, the Government has announced....

 2010-08-31 22:13     Sydney Morning Herald (National)    Scientists defend UN climate panel probe
Ben Cubby The country's leading climate researchers have endorsed the findings of an independent investigation into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations global warming body, which found that its scientific findings were sound but that its structures needed to change and become more transparent....

 2010-08-31 22:13     ABC News Online    Belanglo bones appear to be female: police
Police say it looks like bones found in the New South Wales southern highlands belong to a woman....

 2010-08-31 22:13     ABC News Online    Labor concedes seat of Flynn
Outgoing Labor Member for Flynn in central Queensland Chris Trevor has conceded defeat to the Liberal National Party (LNP) candidate Ken O'Dowd....

 2010-08-31 22:13     ABC News Online    Court hears Matthew Newton AVO application
The girlfriend of television personality Matthew Newton has formally applied for an apprehended violence (AVO) order against the celebrity....

 2010-08-31 21:43     ABC News Online    Economic growth smashes forecasts
Australia's economic growth has passed all but the most optimistic forecasts, with the economy expanding 3.3 per cent over the last financial year....

 2010-08-31 21:43     ABC News Online    Mother jailed 27 years for murdering sons
Melbourne woman Donna Fitchett has been sentenced to 27 years jail for the murders of her two young sons in September 2005....

 2010-08-31 21:43     ABC News Online    Michael Douglas hopes to beat 'intense' cancer
Michael Douglas says he has an 80 per cent chance of recovering from advanced throat cancer....

 2010-08-31 21:43     ABC News Online    Castro admits persecuting gays
Fidel Castro has said he is ultimately responsible for the persecution suffered by homosexuals in Cuba after the 1959 revolution....

 2010-08-31 21:28     National Nine News Video    Snow report
 2010-08-31 21:28     ABC News Online    Another asylum boat found off Christmas Island
The Navy has intercepted a boat carrying 84 asylum seekers and three crew near Christmas Island this morning....

 2010-08-31 21:28     ABC News Online    Qld housing and construction 'in trouble'
A property development group says new housing approval figures for July show the building and construction industry is in trouble in Queensland....

 2010-08-31 21:28     ABC News Online    Company and boss fined over fatal factory blast
A munitions factory and its boss have been given close to the maximum penalty over a fatal explosion in SA....

 2010-08-31 21:28     ABC News Online    Farmer wins bid to challenge land clearing laws
A New South Wales farmer who staged a hunger strike over property rights has been granted leave to appeal to the High Court for compensation....

 2010-08-31 21:13     ABC News Online    Shares rise ahead of GDP figures
Investor optimism about economic growth figures to be released at 11:30am (AEST) is helping to boost the local share market....

 2010-08-31 21:13     ABC News Online    Call for urgent review of cricket betting
Victoria's Gaming Minister Tony Robinson has called for an urgent review of cricket betting, in the wake of match-fixing allegations against some Pakistan cricket players....

 2010-08-31 21:13     Radio Australia    US combat mission in Iraq over
 2010-08-31 20:58     ABC News Online    Teen charged with sexually assaulting 5yo
Police in the Victorian city of Bendigo have charged a teenager with sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl....

 2010-08-31 20:58     ABC News Online    Cancer-related death for Cedric the devil
Researchers have euthanased a tasmanian devil that was thought to be immune from the deadly facial tumour disease....

 2010-08-31 20:58     ABC News Online    Time to turn the page on Iraq: Obama
Barack Obama declares an end to the seven-year US combat mission in Iraq and says his priority is now rebuilding America's economy....

 2010-08-31 20:13     ABC News Online    Games officials 'bump up' dengue fever prevention plans
The Commonwealth Games in India is under a cloud, after the outbreak of dengue fever in the country....

 2010-08-31 20:13     Radio Australia    Food warning following Pakistan flood
 2010-08-31 20:13     The Age (World)    Swedes question Assange
Stockholm Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been interrogated by police in Sweden, where he is facing molestation allegations....

 2010-08-31 19:43     ABC News Online    Greens sign deal to back Labor
Prime Minister Julia Gillard and the Greens have signed a formal deal to join forces as Labor tries to secure a parliamentary majority....


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