LOSSES from the nation's superannuation funds are accelerating, with almost $1 billion a day wiped off retirement savings in the past four months as stock markets plunge.
FALLEN fashion darling Joanne Pellew may have to fight to keep her stake in swimwear label Kooey as the Director of Public Prosecutions in Western Australia circles her property.
THE community on Queensland's Palm Island is quiet today, its mayor says, a day after Lex Wotton was found guilty of rioting with destruction there four years ago.
AUSTRALIA'S Rugby League World Cup halfback Johnathan Thurston is mourning the death of his uncle, who has been killed after a brutal gang attack in a park south of Brisbane.
A MEMBER of the teen gang charged over a notorious bash-and-rob crime spree in Melbourne's inner west boasted of his love of assaulting people on his personal website.
FIRE crews have rescued a workman from a septic tank at a brewery construction site in Healesville, Melbourne's outer east, after he was overcome by fumes.
Australian Wildlife Conservancy has just announced a translocation of 60 woylies from Karakamia (southwestern Australia) to Stage 2 of Scotia in far-west NSW. AWC has now conducted more than 75 translocations of threatened mammals. This is a really important translocation....
