THE Rudd Government will impose limits on Chinese takeovers as it grapples with a $30 billion wave of investment proposals.

TAKEOVER target Just Group has rejected a request from its predator, Solomon Lew's Premier Investment to disclose more on its fiscal 2009 earnings outlook.

THE Garnaut report does not sound the death knell for the Australian coal industry, West Australian Premier Alan Carpenter says.

QUEENSLAND Premier Anna Bligh says the Garnaut report should spur governments to act on climate change.

QUEENSLAND police are searching for a woman armed with a knife who threatened staff at two Brisbane service stations.

PROMINENT civil liberties lawyer Terry O'Gorman is calling for revised laws to stop "media-inspired vigilantism" following convicted pedophile Dennis Ferguson's removal from a house in Queensland's south-west.

A CONVICTED sex offender who breached his supervision order by smoking a joint has been remanded in custody until the matter is finalised.

QUEENSLAND Premier Anna Bligh has defended her Government from claims it should be doing more to solve the problem of released pedophile Dennis Ferguson.

THE former head of a major Queensland electricity company has briefly appeared in court to face allegations of insider trading.

RUN out of one town, pedophile Dennis Ferguson was in hiding again tonight as Prime Minister Kevin Rudd backed a community's right to know the whereabouts of child sex offenders.

A MAN whose self-esteem is so low he identifies himself as a beast has admitted to downloading images showing sexual acts with an octopus.

16:15 : Mikal shared: Spam in the Cloud

THE Victorian Government is set to announce it has secured the Melbourne Grand Prix for a further five years.

SACKED St Kilda AFL coach Grant Thomas has won a legal fight over nearly $200,000 in pay and entitlements he claimed the club owed him.

Thursday 3rd July 2008In other words, this law could increase the use of more dangerous drugs. How bloody stupid can we get in this parliament? We need to establish whether there are unintended consequences, and it is very clear to

Thursday 3rd July 2008Early this century the school leaving age was raised from 15 years and the Democrats opposed it, and one of the chief reasons was our concern for the impact on both students and teachers of forcing those

Parliamentary question ~ PORT HUGHES DEVELOPMENTThursday 3rd July 2008 I seek leave to make an explanation before asking the Minister for Environment and Conservation, representing the Minister for Water Security, a question about the dunes development on the Copper Coast.

Question on Notice no. 209 (asked on 2 March 2008). 1. What tax exemptions and subsidies are currently granted to religious organisations and institutions?

Supplementary) QUESTION IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCILThursday 3rd July 2008

VICTIMS of abuse by Catholic clergy will rally every Sunday in Melbourne until the church agrees to work with them to heal the harm done, victim support groups say.