A PEDESTRIAN has died in hospital after being hit by a car in the Adelaide Hills.
Police say the man was hit on the uptrack of the South Eastern Freeway about 9.30am on Saturday (AEST).
He suffered serious injuries and was taken to the Royal Adelaide Hospital, but has since died.
A TOP UK official for the Conservative party has been arrested over a historic allegation of rape.
Tory vice-chairman Alan Lewis, 75, who was appointed by David Cameron, was held by police after a woman claimed she was attacked in the late 1960s.
The self-made tycoon, who owns the Crombie clothing chain and is thought to have a fortune of between 220 and 260 million, was reportedly arrested at a Manchester hotel while on a business trip.
"A 75-year-old man was arrested following a complaint received earlier this year of an historic rape that occurred in the Manchester area in the late 60s, " a Greater Manchester Police spokesman said.
"The man was later bailed pending further inquiries. Specially-trained officers are providing support and welfare to the victim."
The British prime minister gave Lewis his current role as Tory vice-chairman responsible for business relations in 2010.
In 1990, he was made a CBE for his services as chairman of the Confederation of British Industry's initiative to prepare British businesses to the single market.
A Tory supporter since the early 1980s, he is a black belt in karate and a promoter of Christian healing who claims to read the Bible every day.
FEDERAL Labor leadership aspirants Bill Shorten and Anthony Albanese say the party should stand up for the accomplishments of the Gillard government.
Mr Shorten and Mr Albanese were taking part in a debate in Melbourne on Friday as ALP grassroots members continue to vote in an historic ballot for the parliamentary leadership which opened on Tuesday.
Both contenders were asked about their views on former prime minister Julia Gillard's policy legacy.
"Will we stand up for what Julia Gillard accomplished? Yes we will," Mr Shorten said.
He said he had received a text message from Ms Gillard pointing out "stupid stuff" about her in a newspaper report.
"We will defend her legacy and indeed that is what the last election was about," Mr Shorten said.
He says the price on carbon, the national broadband network, national disability insurance scheme and improved workplace right of entry laws are worth defending.
Mr Albanese says the party needs to defend the legacies of both Ms Gillard and Kevin Rudd.
"I believe we have a very good record primarily on the economy under both Kevin and Julia," Mr Albanese said.
He says the 600 pieces of legislation passed by the minority parliament under Ms Gillard are a strong legacy.
"We pushed forward with reform and she will be treated very kindly by history indeed and she deserves to be so," Mr Albanese said.
The pair were asked if they had the "guts" to show compassion to refugees, prompting Mr Shorten to say Labor needed to be "stronger and braver" on the issue.
"We need to make it clear that on one hand, whilst we don't support people smugglers ... we don't support people drowning at sea," Mr Shorten said.
"What we also do is we support having more refugees, we support being good international citizens with the UN, we support engaging in our region to make sure that refugees wherever they are, are treated properly.
"We can win this argument by stating who we are and not getting blown off course by the day-in-day-out opinion polls. We need to be stronger and braver."
Mr Albanese said Labor must be prepared to argue the party's commitment to refugees and to the United Nations refugee conventions.
"We have to be prepared, as difficult as the politics of it may be ... to argue the case that people deserve to be treated with compassion," he said.
"We need also ... to acknowledge as well that there is nothing compassionate about people drowning at sea. We need to address the reality of what is going on with the people smugglers."
One audience member asked about the fallout from the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption, which engulfed a number of the state's senior factional heavyweights.
Mr Albanese said Labor needed to acknowledge the corruption and "root it out".
"Part of what the findings have found is that when you have a small group in caucus that then binds a bigger group that binds the caucus ... you can have (corrupt) practices emerge," Mr Albanese said.
"We need to make sure that we learn those lessons, that's why I ... support open, transparent processes.
"Transparency is the enemy of corruption."
Mr Shorten was "appalled" by the ICAC inquiry findings.
"We need to deal with this idea that we are loyal to a faction or a personality ahead of the party," Mr Shorten said.
"The notion that we have these binding factions to which loyalty is greater is not where this party is headed.
"We're party first, factional subgroup second. That's the right priority.
"If elected leader I will not take part in any more factional activities, full stop."
A MULTI-STORY building has collapsed in India's financial capital of Mumbai.
Rescuers are trying to reach more than two dozen people feared trapped in the rubble, but there have been no immediate reports of casualties.
Local television NDTV reported on Friday that at least 25 people were believed to be in the five-story residential building near Dockyard Road when it collapsed after dawn in the city's southeast.
It was the second Mumbai building to fall down this year. In June, at least 10 people died in when a three-story building collapsed.
Across India, building collapses have become relatively common. Massive demand for housing around India's fast-growing cities combined with pervasive corruption often result in builders using substandard materials or adding unauthorised floors.
FIRST homebuyers are now eligible for a $10,000 grant for newly-constructed homes in Western Australia.
But buyers of established homes are now only eligible for a $3000 grant.
Both kinds of purchases were previously eligible for a $7000 state government contribution.
The first home owners grant changes were flagged in the 2013/14 state budget and the legislation was amended in parliament last week.
The changes came into effect on Wednesday.
Treasurer Troy Buswell has said the changes to the scheme aimed to give people an incentive to build new homes and ease the state's housing shortage.
SYDNEYSIDERS can expect an increased police presence on public transport with the opening of a new command in the heart of the city.
The Police Transport Command at Central Railway Station will control transport operations in Sydney's central and northern suburbs, as well as acting as a base for 120 officers.
At the official opening on Wednesday, NSW Police Minister Mike Gallacher said the public would welcome more police on public transport.
"The winners, of course, will always be the travelling public," he told reporters.
"The losers are going to be those people who, for far too long, have embarked on criminality and thought that the public system was theirs to abuse."
NSW Transport Minister Gladys Berejiklian said she could rest easier knowing police were in charge of security throughout the entire network.
The Police Transport Command has made almost 2900 arrests since it started in May last year.
NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione said police and government were on track to have 610 frontline officers across the entire network by the end of next year.
GOLD Coast police are hunting for a gunman who allegedly opened fire on a driver in a road-rage incident.
The offender sped away from the scene of the shooting opposite the Gold Coast hospital in Southport on Monday afternoon.
"They could be long gone obviously," a police spokeswoman told AAP.
A boxing coach says he was shot in the leg when a man wearing a glove fired at him from a car opposite the hospital.
"We had a bit of a barney in the traffic and this guy pulled out a gun and shot me," the man, who gave his name only as Ty, told The Courier-Mail.
"I'm lucky he lowered the gun or he'd have blown my head off.
"I won't be testifying against him in court. I'm too worried for my family."
Police said one person had suffered a grazed leg in the shooting incident and there were no other reports of injuries.
A member of the public called police about 12.30pm (AEST) to report the matter, police said.
Officers are at the scene and have closed a section of High Street between Queen and Nerang streets.
JANE Lynch understands why there's upset over Cory Monteith's Emmy tribute.
The actress remembered her late Glee co-star at the Primetime Emmy Awards Sunday but the posthumous honour garnered controversy as producers decided to omit other late legends, including The Odd Couple's Jack Klugman.
Speaking before the event, Jane told TMZ she holds the utmost respect for Jack and sympathises with those who might feel he was snubbed by the Television Academy.
"I'm a huge fan of Jack Klugman. Obviously I don't choose these things," she said, adding, "He was there at the beginning of television and he had a terrific career ... I'd be upset too."
Jane did say, however, that she was looking forward to taking the stage and paying tribute to her late colleague Monteith.
The actor passed away in July at the age of 31 after a drug overdose and the cast and crew of Glee have been working on a tribute episode of the program in his honour.
"I'm really proud to be up there for him tonight," she said.
Jane's remarks came a day after Jack's son, Adam Klugman, lamented about producers' decision not to include his father in the ceremony, which also mentioned late stars James Gandolfini, Gary David Goldberg, Jean Stapleton and Jonathan Winters.
"I don't mean to say anything disparaging about Cory, but he was a kid who had won no Emmys and it was a self-induced tragedy," he told the Associated Press.
Cory's mother, Ann McGregos, responded in her son's defence, telling TMZ that if Cory "had lived 30 more years he would have accomplished much more".
KATY Perry has reclaimed No.1 on the ARIA singles chart with her track Roar.
Having been superseded by Redfoo last week, Perry returns to the top for a fourth week.
Redfoo's Let's Get Ridiculous has dropped to No.3, behind Miley Cyrus' Wrecking Ball.
At No.4 this week is Jason DeRulo with Talk Dirty, featuring rapper 2 Chainz.
Lana Del Rey's Summertime Sadness remix is steady at No.5.
Climbing to a new peak of No.6 is Something I Need for OneRepublic.
Avicii is back up one spot to No.7 with Wake Me Up, while Love Me Again by John Newman drops back two spots to No.8.
Drake's Hold on, We're Going Home has shot up five places to No.9 ahead of Eminem's Berzerk at No.10.
The top three albums in the country are all new entries this week, with Australian country music star Keith Urban taking out the top spot with his ninth studio album Fuse.
This becomes his second No.1 album in Australia after 2012's The Story So Far.
The debut album for Tom Bergling, better known as Avicii, enters at No.2.
Jack Johnson, who is heading to Australia for a national tour in December, has debuted at No.3 with his sixth studio album From Here to Now to You.
With three big new entries, it pushes last week's top four albums down three places each, with AM for The Arctic Monkeys down to No.4, If You Wait by London Grammar at No.5, The Truth About Love for Pink at No.6 and Fleetwood Mac's 25 Years - The Chain at No.7.
Passenger is back up one place to No.8 with All the Little Lights, followed by Loud Like Love from Placebo at No.9
Bruno Mars returns to the Top 10 at No.10 with Unorthodox Jukebox following the release of his new single Gorilla.
LABOR will hold community preselections in five NSW seats, in a bid to open up the party.
NSW Opposition Leader John Robertson says members of the community will be able to join with local branch members to vote for their Labor candidate for at least five seats before the 2015 state election.
The community preselections will be held for the seats of Balmain, Newtown, Campbelltown, Londonderry and Strathfield.
"This is an exciting moment for the Labor party and shows we are serious about opening our party up to new people and new ways of thinking," he said in a statement on Sunday.
In addition to the five seats, community preselections would also be held in other seats where locals were eager to embrace the new process, he said.
"I want this process to begin as soon as possible and for all community preselections to be completed by March next year."
The announcement comes as Labor's Anthony Albanese and Bill Shorten campaign for the federal Labor leadership.
The pair are travelling the country in a bid to win over grassroots ALP members who will for the first time get a 50 per cent say in a ballot to elect the federal parliamentary leader.
