FORD'S decision to cut more than 300 jobs from its local workforce is the latest in a string of redundancies for Australian workers this year.

P-PLATERS will be banned from driving high-powered cars in Western Australia under Labor - and confiscated vehicles will be sold, even if they belong to drivers' parents.

THREE people have been killed on Queensland roads in the past 24 hours.

THE father of disgraced pastor Michael Guglielmucci has revealed his son has been addicted to pornography since the age of 12.

THE Queensland Government will give $1 million to the town or city that comes up with the best idea to beat obesity.

FREE public transport passes could be included with the sale of residential units as part of a strategy to tackle traffic.

THREE men have been charged with attempting to smuggle a large quantity of alcohol onto Queensland's Palm Island.

A MAN has been charged with attempted murder over one of two hit and runs on the Gold Coast in the last 24 hours.

QUEENSLAND'S Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) will investigate vote rorting allegations involving the state's peak horse racing body.

A MIDDLE-AGED woman has endured a terrifying ordeal after allegedly being kidnapped in the middle of the afternoon at a shopping centre car park in Adelaide.

Nine Junior riders wore smiles that shone across the pits this afternoon when they were crowned State champ’s at the final round of the Rockstar Energy Drink NSW MX Championship at Cessnock....

Utinni!

We might need to try that one for Halloween.

A FORMER teacher and her brother who hired a hitman to murder their elderly father were simply driven by greed, a court has been told.

AN 87-year-old woman died when her motorised scooter went under a four-wheel-drive as she tried to cross the road today.

A SUICIDAL motorist who killed a young mother when he ploughed into her car at high speed has been jailed for seven years.

A 94-YEAR-old man has died in a house fire at Terang, south-west of Melbourne.

POLICE admit they might never find the mother who dumped her dead baby at a country Victorian bus stop a month ago.

A SEARCH will resume at first light for a bushwalker who went missing in Healesville, north-east of Melbourne.

THE safe discovery of a bushwalker missing overnight while looking for his dog in Melbourne's southeast was almost the perfect ending to a story about a man and his best friend.