AUSTRALIA'S highest-paid radio announcer, Alan Jones, stands to reap a $4.3m windfall if his employer, Macquarie Radio, sells for $75 million.

A FORMER One Nation MP says she stands by her relationship with a 15-year-old schoolboy that has divided a small town.

AN INVESTIGATION into claims three Broncos players sexually assaulted a woman could be finalised today but a separate drug investigation sparked by the incident in a Brisbane nightclub toilet will continue.

THE Victorian Opposition is seeking to expose what the Government knew of rape allegations against a senior minister before they were aired publicly.

THE torching of three cars in the South Melbourne area early today appears to be linked, police say.

FIREBUGS hit South Melbourne overnight with three cars set alight, including one in a garage which forced the evacuation of residents.

NEIGHBOURS of an exclusive boys' school say they were terrorised by balaclava-clad students who went on a muck-up spree that left one boy in hospital and hundreds suspended from school.

POLICE have ruled out foul play after a man's body was found on a Perth beach.

A MAN has been charged with secretly filming women as they showered in their homes.

CANE toad fighters say they have culled 70,000 of the pests over the past four weeks as they approach the Northern Territory-West Australian border.

A MAN who outraged the RSL by flying a Nazi flag on his Adelaide property has swapped it for an Australian one.

AN electricity distributor has warned against releasing helium balloons onto power lines.

A VICTORIAN woman who fell pregnant five years after having her tubes tied is suing Barwon Health in Geelong, claiming a botched operation.

THE sister-in-law of accused double murderer Tony Mokbel has been jailed for 11 months.

AN anti-logging protester has been kicked in the head by a forestry worker at a protest in Tasmania, forest activists say.

STUDENTS from Melbourne's exclusive Xavier College have been accused of damaging cars and smashing bottles in a Lord of the Flies-style rampage through an upmarket suburb.

KMART has pulled from its shelves a doll accused of making controversial religious statements.

Almost $1.4 million in cash, heroin and other proceeds of crime have been seized and seven people arrested in a police bust in suburban Melbourne.

UNEMPLOYMENT will be higher than predicted in the May Budget, but will not reach 10 per cent, Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner says.

The dollar closed 1.1 per cent weaker today as a strong rally on the local share market failed to convince traders to back the high-yielding currency.