MORE South Australian firefighters will head to Kangaroo Island today, where bushfires have already claimed one life.

SALVAGE crews have refloated a bulk carrier that has been stuck in mud in a central Queensland harbour for more than five days.

THE drilling of new bores on domestic properties in Adelaide will be banned for at least the next nine months to ensure groundwater supplies are not depleted during the drought.

SALVAGE crews have refloated a bulk carrier that has been stuck in mud in a central Queensland harbour for more than five days.

AUSTRALIAN construction activity has expanded for the third month in a row but an interest rate rise in November has slowed down the growth rate, a survey shows.

TREASURER Wayne Swan says Australia remains well placed to deal with the global economic fallout from the US sub-prime housing market crisis.

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AUSTRALIAN farmers are likely to be among the hardest hit in the world from climate change, losing up to a 10th of their production to global warming in less than 25 years, according to a grim new assessment from the

MORE South Australian firefighters will head to Kangaroo Island today, where bushfires have already claimed one life.

TROUBLED mortgage lender Northern Rock said Thursday it had borrowed $58 billion in emergency funds from the Bank of England, seeking to counter speculation it had needed much more.

A MORTGAGE relief package was unveiled by US President George W Bush, who said the measures could help up to 1.2 million distressed homeowners.

AUSTRALIAN farmers are likely to be among the hardest hit in the world from climate change, losing up to a 10th of their production to global warming in less than 25 years, according to a grim new assessment from the

A POLICE officer was stabbed in the face when he went to a domestic disturbance in far north Queensland.

A MAN has been charged with sex assaults dating back four decades in southern Sydney, police said.

THE rainwater tank, once as common as the Hills Hoist, is making a comeback.

THE United States Government is moving to allay deepening fears of a recession with plans to freeze interest rates for some of the two million homeowners with sub-prime mortgages.

US HOME foreclosures spiked to a record high between July and September as a national housing downturn worsened, according to a survey released by the Mortgage Bankers Association overnight.

THE Epping to Chatswood underground rail link has become the Iemma Government's latest disaster, after engineers bungled the $2 billion line's tunnel.

A GOLD Coast businessman who headed the Australian arm of a drug gang was jailed yesterday for 17 years - the toughest sentence imposed on an ecstasy trafficker in Queensland.

AT one end of the courtroom was the high-profile magistrate Pat O'Shane. Just metres away sat the who woman police claim she has harassed and intimidated - lawyer Heather Armstrong.