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THE Reserve Bank's concerns about high inflation in the near-term would make an interest rate cut in November more likely than next month, economists say.

THE Mayor of Cloncurry has devised an emergency water plan for the western Queensland town's 5500 residents living on tap water he describes as "certain to give you a dose of diarrhoea".

THE parents of Yadav Munohur have thanked Victorians for their support after their nine-year-old son's body was found in a creek near their Melbourne home last week.

AN eight-year-old boy who drowned while trying to save his older sister, smiled and told her he loved her before slipping beneath the waves.

IF the Reserve Bank cuts rates next month it will show the Rudd government got its first Budget spot on, the Finance Minister says.

QUEENSLAND premier Anna Bligh today killed off a controversial $14 billion shale oil project in north Queensland.

THE Australian freelance photo-journalist kidnapped by armed men in Somalia has been identified by websites as Queenslander Nigel Brennan.

THE family of Australian freelance journalist Nigel Brennan say they are deeply concerned following reports he was taken at gunpoint by unknown assailants outside the Somalian capital Mogadishu.

THE Federal Government has approved plans by Chinalco to acquire as much as 11 per cent of miner and takeover target Rio Tinto.

MORE schools and better pay for teachers were promised to voters at the West Australian Liberal Party's campaign launch in Perth today.

FEDERAL Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson stayed away from official speaking duties at the West Australian Liberal Party election campaign launch today.

A WOMAN with cerebral palsy has been badly beaten up near Perth's Curtin University campus.

After four successful years, the Yamaha Australian Off Road Championship has produced plenty of great racing, a range of class winners, and two different Pro Outright victors in the male classes. F...

New South Wales South Coast racer Matt Moss wrapped up two coveted NSW state motocross titles today at the final round of the Rockstar Energy Drink NSW MX Championship at Cessnock.The Team ...

Over the past two weeks Motorcycling Australia (MA) has allocated a number of cash grants to female riders taking part in the 2008 Honda Australian Junior Motocross Championship.In total $1...

Troy Herfoss’s winning ways has carried on, this time in a different discipline of motorcycling. Having won his first Supermoto event in three long years competing in the US of A, Herfoss decided t...

Reigning motorbike champion, Ben Grabham, got his Australasian Safari title defence off to a great start, creating a buffer of almost three minutes over his nearest rival after Leg One of the 2008 ...

Day Five - Spruce Woods, Souris and Moose Mountain Manitoba is very much full of canola. After leaving Winnipeg, we headed west and took a southerly detour to Spruce Woods Provincial Park. It is a very popular place cause it's...

THE share market is set to open stronger tomorrow, with investors positive after the biggest one-day drop in oil prices in four years.