WEST Australian Premier Alan Carpenter and Opposition leader Colin Barnett have cast their votes in what is expected to be a close state election today.

FERAL" rioters who wreaked havoc at 2006's G20 meeting have forced a Remembrance Day event to be cancelled.

A HELICOPTER has crashed near the Townsville Breakwater Marina, with minor injuries to the pilot and his three passengers.

AN elderly man has died while waiting for a ward bed at Queensland's overcrowded Townsville Hospital after being left in a corridor for more than eight hours.

THE West Australian Labor party is nervous but bookies say late betting is favouring Alan Carpenter's Government being returned to power.

A MAN armed with a knife grabbed an attendant during an attempted robbery of a Queensland convenience store overnight but fled when he was threatened with a pair of scissors.

THE West Australian Labor party is nervous but bookies say late betting is favouring Alan Carpenter's government being returned to power.

POLLS have closed and counting has begun in the West Australian election.

THE West Australian Liberals were tonight poised to form government after winning eight of the nine seats they required and appearing likely to take another two.

AN EMOTIONAL Troy Buswell tonight broke down in tears as he claimed victory in the West Australian South West seat of Vasse.

A HUNG parliament seemed the most likely result of the West Australian election, Premier Alan Carpenter said tonight.

THE Liberal party was in a position where it could soon form a new government, Opposition Leader Colin Barnett said tonight.

THE West Australian Liberals are poised to form government but were facing tough negotiations with the Nationals to enable them to do so.

A VICTORIAN teenager is in hospital after being bitten by a suspected brown snake while walking through a botanic garden today.

THE abortion debate heated up today when both sides of the controversial issue clashed outside the Victorian Parliament.

Magistrate tells bashed teen to meet attackers Victim nearly beaten to death, losing sight Attackers to apologise to teen

ALMOST half of Tasmania's collared hoons were driving Holdens and most were caught in the state's south, police figures show

A VICTORIAN man is fighting for his life in hospital after falling or being thrown from a moving car which then sped off.

FORMER Blue Heelers star Tasma Walton has revealed she wants to have a baby with TV host boyfriend Rove McManus.

TYRE magnate Bob Jane is suing his sister-in-law and her husband over $100,000 of tyres and stock.