THE Australian Formula One Grand Prix is yet to be nominated in an online survey of Victoria's best tourism experiences.

A MAN has been arrested over a suspected road-rage stabbing in Melbourne this morning.

POLICE have reported some violence and several arrests in the first Saturday night test of the Victorian government's new 2am liquor licence lockout.

A YOUNG boy crushed between a pole and a car driven by a teenage learner has been airlifted from the Mornington Peninsula to Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital.

A TEENAGER has been struck and killed by a bus outside a Melbourne shopping centre tonight.

SOUTHEAST Queensland's tough water restrictions will not be lightened after heavy rain failed to restore dams to the crucial 40 per cent mark.

QUEENSLAND police have charged another man allegedly involved with an international child porn network.

LEADING nations should apply a blowtorch to the crude oil cartel OPEC, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said today.

THE mother of Sunshine Coast boy Daniel Morcombe, who disappeared nearly five years ago, says it is time to find her son's abductors.

HOPES southeast Queensland's tough water restrictions would be eased have been dashed after authorities announced recent heavy rain would not be enough to push the region's dams past 40 per cent capacity.

THE return of Brisbane soldiers from Iraq today has been delayed after their plane was grounded in Darwin.

A PLANNED visit by Federal and South Australian Government ministers to the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands has been postponed after its leaders refused to meet the ministers.

THE first of the South Australian Government's new laws to tackle outlaw bikie gangs comes into force today.

NATIONAL BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION HOBBY PROGRAMME 2008 Sunday 13th July All hobbyist or new beekeepers welcome 9.30 Cup of tea and welcome10.00 Biology of the Bee Frank Lindsay10.20 Siting your Apiary local regulations - Wellington / Masterton / Palmerston North -

BANKS and other lenders are using bully-boy tactics to scare homeowners behind on their mortgage repayments - by threatening to throw them out on the street.

BATTERED investors the world over are desperately hunting for safe haven stocks, and analysts have some thoughts.

A WOMAN watched in horror as her husband was stabbed several times after a row with another motorist in Melbourne's southeast.

POLICE have charged a man who allegedly gouged the eyes of a police officer in an incident at Coolangatta on the Gold Coast overnight.

RANGERS on Fraser Island are reportedly so bored they are demanding to be flown back to the mainland daily at taxpayers' expense.

TWO motorcyclists have died in separate accidents in Queensland's southeast.