Mundine racism row takes new turn

THE war of words between outspoken boxer Anthony Mundine and Aboriginal leader Michael Mansell has taken another twist, with the pair now seeming to agree that government benefits for people claiming indigenous heritage should be tightened. Mr...

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Driver menaces Lib volunteer at poll booth

A CAR has allegedly run down a Liberal candidate's election sign at a Canberra polling booth and forced a party volunteer to leap out of the way. ACT police are investigating after a white Subaru mounted the kerb outside Stirling College and...

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Evangelist Billy Graham backs Romney

EVANGELICAL leader Billy Graham has urged Americans to "vote for biblical values", in an implicit endorsement of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, a Mormon. The message of support came on Thursday after the Billy Graham Evangelistic...

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Fatal crash was long after chase: WA cop

A CAR crash that killed two men including a tourist in Perth's eastern suburbs early on Friday came long after officers aborted their pursuit of the vehicle, police say. The crash at the corner of Orrong Road and Leach Highway in Kewdale about...

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Treasury not reviewing carbon modelling

TREASURY hasn't been asked to revisit its carbon pricing impact modelling since the federal government scrapped plans for a floor price, a parliamentary committee has heard. "We have not updated the modelling," Treasury executive director of...

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Abuse inquiry needs swift action

MORE victims of church sexual abuse will kill themselves unless Victoria's parliamentary inquiry acts swiftly to protect the men who still contemplate suicide every day, one campaigner fears. Up to 50 men taught in the 1960s and 70s by convicted...

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'No immediate impact' for Hicks case: AG

THE Australian government sees "no immediate impact" on David Hicks' terrorism conviction from a landmark United States court decision. A former driver for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden who served a prison term for material support for terrorism...

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Australia's largest warship arrives

AUSTRALIA'S largest warship has arrived on home soil following a nine-week voyage from Spain. The hull of the Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) is in Geelong but will now be moved by tug to the Williamstown shipyards in Victoria where contractor...

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Self favourite to win Man Booker prize

JOURNALIST and novelist Will Self is the favourite to win the prestigious Man Booker Prize. He is shortlisted for the first time for Umbrella, a novel with no chapters and few paragraph breaks, and which judges described as both "moving and draining"....

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NT leaders raise concerns with Mills

ABORIGINAL leaders from Arnhem Land want the new Northern Territory chief minister to lobby the federal government to scrap the NT intervention program. Aboriginal leaders from east, central and west Arnhem Land met with Terry Mills in Maningrida...

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Tuna grow faster in deep seas: research

DEEP sea tuna farming could be the way of the future, after Australian researchers found the fish grow twice as fast when raised in "farms" further from the coast. University of Tasmania scientist Nicole Kirchhoff said the research could open...

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Auckland-Antarctica flight cancelled

THE first commercial flight planned from New Zealand to Antarctica since the Mt Erebus crash in 1979 has been cancelled because of a lack of interest. Australian-based Antarctica Sightseeing Flights announced in early September that it would...

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