Australian News - No refuges for next bushfire season

Lawyers representing the Victorian Government have rejected the possibility of establishing fire refuges in time for next summer. - Full story

Australian News - Territory prisoners catch swine flu
There have been two confirmed cases of swine flu at the Alice Springs jail.... - more news

Australian News - Sex attack: Girl snatched off Sydney street
Police are searching for four men who allegedly pulled a 14-year-old girl into a car on a main road in Sydney’s inner west before she was sexually assaulted this week.... - more news

Australian News - Young drivers twice as likely to be killed
A spate of horrific car accidents involving young people in Victoria has dredged up painful emotions for the mother of one boy who was killed, and raised questions as to why adolescent drivers are twi... - more news

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Australian News - Services industry shows signs of life
The cash handouts from the Federal Government appear to have helped Australia's services industry, with activity expanding for the first time in more than a year. - more news

Australian News - Investors lighten Rio's debt load
Rio Tinto says it has completed one of the world's biggest rights issues now Australian shareholders have taken up almost 95 per cent of their entitlements to new shares. - more news

Australian News - Aussie market slide not as bad as Wall St
The Australian share market had eased just over 1 per cent by the middle of the day, a small echo of Wall Street's 2.6 per cent slide. - more news

Australian News - Federal stimulus prompts car sale surge

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Australian News - Jackman among new Academy members
Hugh Jackman has been invited to join Hollywood's most elite club. Proving they loved the job he did as host of the last Oscars ceremony, Jackman has been asked to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Each year the Academy invites distinguish... - more news

Australian News - Bruno is Sydney's knight in shining armour
The gay Austrian fashionista stopped traffic and caused mob scenes in Sydney's CBD on Monday night, dressed as a knight in shining armour leading a white horse wearing bondage gear. "Vassup Sydney! Do you like my helmet?" he asked the hundreds of screaming fans who packed i... - more news

Australian News - Bollywood Downunder
Let me start this month with a happy note. The stand off between Mumbai film producers and nation wide multiplex cinema owners, over a dispute in revenue share has finally been resolved. As a result new films are to hit the screen soon. It's good news for Bollywood film dist... - more news

Australian News - Pearce to join Holmes supernatural thriller

Australian News - Gilchrist tips Lee to perform
Retired Test wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist has backed struggling paceman Brett Lee to turn around his woeful record in England in a predicted 2-1 Ashes victory for Australia. - more news

Australian News - Hussey ton rallies Australia against Lions
Mike Hussey has found form with his first century in nine months on a day when several Australian batsmen failed in their final warm-up game before the Ashes. - more news

Australian News - Harmison detects lack of Aussie confidence
Stephen Harmison believes Australia is short on confidence and Phillip Hughes is susceptible to the short ball as the first Ashes Test in Cardiff approaches. - more news

Australian News - Revived Lee stakes Ashes claim

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