Geelong has always been and continues to be a strong motorcycling town.I am very proud to talk up Geelong and its motorcycling facilities and have backed that up in the form of setting up my own Craig Dack Racing (CDR)

BUSHFIRE victims will be legally represented when the next round of Bushfires Royal Commission hearings starts next month, after previously being refused leave to appear.

AN Australian has been shot and killed, possibly by a sniper, near a massive gold and copper mine in Indonesia's volatile Papua region.

POLICE and State Emergency Service volunteers have combed a rural Victorian property and nearby bushland but failed to find a woman missing since Friday.

AN AUSTRALIAN shot dead near a massive gold and copper mine in Indonesia's volatile Papua region was a 29-year-old Victorian man, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) says.

A 25-year-old man is in hospital with possible life-threatening head injuries after a group of up to 30 people threw objects at cars in suburban Adelaide.

SEVERAL AFL players have been taken to hospital after a tornado tore through a football ground, lifting cars and destroying buildings.

TWO people have died when a utility burst into flames after crashing through a school fence at Gladstone, in central Queensland.

POLICE have launched a major investigation to determine whether two fatal shootings in south-east Queensland are linked.

A PRISON officer is under investigation over allegations he supplied pornography to inmates at a prison farm in Queensland.

IF an army marches on its stomach, the 25,000 US and Australian troops taking part in war games in Queensland this weekend should be just about able to walk home.

A 45-year-old woman has died after a bus she had disembarked struck her while reversing, Queensland police say.

Good Laika were dogged by obstacles when creating their second album, Followed by a Trail of Sparks. Guitarist Jason Fa'afoi talks to LAURA MCQUILLAN of NZPA about the band's bad luck, dogs in space and being world famous in New

The 'Harry Potter' actress has bought a new property in London which she is now sharing with financier Jay Barrymore.

The Black Eyed Peas singer has revealed she swapped her blonde tresses for glossy dark locks earlier this year because she was married and wanted to look "more mature".

The late singer's 'This Is It' show is being planned to take place at The O2 arena - where the 'Smooth Criminal' singer had sold-out a 50-night residency - on August 29, the day of Michael's 51st birthday.

Dr. Arnold Klein - who is rumoured to the biological dad of Prince Michael, 12, and 11-year-old Paris - once gave his semen to a sperm bank but insisted he never donated it to the late pop star.

By Mark Geenty of NZPASydney, July 12 NZPA - He shifts uncomfortably in his chair recalling it. Wallabies rugby flanker David Pocock, then a 12-year-old living in Zimbabwe, slept with a gun under his bed.

Wellington, July 11 NZPA - All Blacks captain Richie McCaw pronounced him ready to face Australia next week after emerging unscathed from a rare appearace in club rugby today.

Wellington, July 12 NZPA - Canada have earned a place in the All Blacks' pool for the rugby World Cup in New Zealand in 2011.They beat the United States 41-18 at Edmonton, Canada, today to win the two-match qualifying series