01 Feb 06 | SYDNEY - Bidding has skyrocketed for a weekend with four Sydney men auctioning themselves at online marketplace eBay, with a French buyer offering $85,100.
01 Feb 06 | Former top bureaucrat Bob Annells has become the new chairman of the Tourism Tasmania board.
Mr Annells was the youngest head of agency ever appointed in Tasmania when he took on the position of Director-General of Lands at the age of 35.
01 Feb 06 | MELBOURNE - Australian supermarket giant Safeway has been fined about $9 million by the Federal Court for price-fixing and misusing its market power in the bread market.
01 Feb 06 | The RACT has called for more and larger signs at merging lanes on Launceston's Southern Outlet. The call follows a double fatality involving a man driving the wrong way on the divided carriageway and an almost identical near-miss 12 days later.
01 Feb 06 | Prosecutors will not apply to have a man who shot a father in front of his six-year-old son declared a dangerous criminal.
01 Feb 06 | WAUSAU, Wisconsin - Researchers have found the remains of African slaves in a 16th-century Mexican graveyard, confirming historical accounts that slavery from Africa began in the New World not long after Europeans conquered Mexico.
01 Feb 06 | Roger Woolley was not averse to using a few local role models to encourage Launceston's young cricketers at a clinic yesterday.
01 Feb 06 | Classy pacer Safe Rambler is out of Sunday night's $30,000 Bullock Consulting Devonport Cup with a leg injury.
Riverside trainer Rohan Hadley is still unsure whether it's a long-term problem or will respond to treatment.
01 Feb 06 | Cash rates
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01 Feb 06 | Riverside vegetation buffer zones up to 100m wide are a great way to stop the Tamar River filling with mud, says visiting sedimentologist Associate Professor Brian Jones.
01 Feb 06 | A clear majority of voters on The Examiner's Internet site have indicated that they would support moves to ban rodeos.
01 Feb 06 | ADELAIDE - South Australia is planning to commit itself to the Kyoto Protocol, even though the nation will not.
01 Feb 06 | Australia's team to play Switzerland in the Davis Cup first round tie in Geneva from February 10 to 12:
01 Feb 06 | Tote Tasmania has announced an expansion of its Triwin betting service.
Starting today, Triwin will operate on the main thoroughbred meetings in both Victoria and NSW every day, as well as on all night thoroughbred meetings in those states.
01 Feb 06 | BRISBANE - Traditional water storage supplies such as dams and rivers are failing to keep up with demand, despite the continued decline in urban Australian water usage.
31 Jan 06 | MADRID - England skipper David Beckham insists he wants to see out his playing career with Spanish giant Real Madrid despite constant speculation linking him with a return to England.
31 Jan 06 | ¤Superstar jockey to take Petite Oiseau mount in Hobart
Big-race specialist Glen Boss will ride star Tasmanian mare Petite Oiseau in the $400,000 AAMI Hobart Cup at Elwick on February 13.
31 Jan 06 | Longford's James Peck shot a nine- under par total of 63 to win the Northern Tasmanian Golf Association junior tournament at the Country Club Resort yesterday.
31 Jan 06 | JERUSALEM - Support for Ariel Sharon's centrist Kadima Party has increased, but backing for further Israeli withdrawals from occupied territory has weakened substantially, according to the first poll, by TNS- Teleseker, taken since Islamic militants swept the Palestinian election.
31 Jan 06 | Cash rates
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