5:03 PM AEDT | Forest Enterprises Australia chief executive Andrew White today said a change in insurance billing for woodlot growers was not a bid to generate cash revenue.
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4:46 PM AEDT | HOW satisfying to walk out of a barber's shop without paying a cent.
I know, I know, two points you nit-picking trendoids and/or dobbers are going to pull me up on here - number one is tha
4:44 PM AEDT | Bass candidates have their say on three key issues at this weekend's State election - education, jobs and health.
4:43 PM AEDT | WEST Launceston's Rachel Bessant is involved in the charity process from start to finish.
The Filipino expatriate has helped thousands over the past four years.
Now each year, Ms Bess
4:42 PM AEDT | Cyclone fear: Hundreds are leaving Great Barrier Reef islands and ports, and ships are on notice amid warnings that Cyclone Ului will hit the central Queensland coast this weekend.
More than 300 tourists and res
4:42 PM AEDT | Bat woes: A Queensland council wants to use helicopters to chase away bats considered a crash risk - to helicopters. The Charters Towers Regional Council is desperate to get rid of the bats, which it says pose
4:41 PM AEDT | A MASSIVE housing development near Rocherlea has been nominated for a national award for planning excellence.
The 88-hectare development dubbed The Green has been going through various plannin
4:40 PM AEDT | CHICAGO - The charismatic Chicago man accused of being a scout for the deadly 2008 Mumbai siege and a plot to kill a Danish cartoonist is set to plead guilty to terrorism charges, US court records sho
4:39 PM AEDT | JERUSALEM - Hundreds of Palestinians clashed with Israeli security forces across east Jerusalem yesterday in the worst rioting in years as a senior Hamas leader called for a new "intifada," or uprisin
4:38 PM AEDT | Blood protests: Thai protesters seeking a change of government planned more shock tactics yesterday, saying they would pour containers of their own blood at the prime minister's house in the capital of Bangkok.b
4:35 PM AEDT | SYDNEY - Australians should expect another influenza season dominated by swine flu, experts warn.
The A(H1N1) pandemic virus would return to cause the bulk of flu infections across the countr
4:33 PM AEDT | More and more renters are packing their homes with flat-screen TVs, computers, gaming consoles and other expensive electronic items, but 52 per cent of them don't have home- contents insurance, a
4:31 PM AEDT | MELBOURNE - A bouncer who applied a sleeper hold during a fight at a Melbourne fast food restaurant was trained in martial arts and would have known the move would render his victim unconscious, a cou
4:31 PM AEDT | CANBERRA - The Federal Government has been forced to reassess its national broadband network strategy with the Australian Greens set to withdraw support for crucial draft laws that pave the way for th
4:30 PM AEDT | $1.1m compo: A man who will never work again after doing work normally reserved for a crane has been awarded $1.1 million in compensation.
Dong Pham, 31, sustained severe back injuries from his work at a factor
4:30 PM AEDT | The Federal Government says a decision to freeze the pension payments of British expats living in Australia is discriminatory.
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the UK Government ca
4:29 PM AEDT | SYDNEY - Australia's native dingo may be the oldest dog breed in the world, according to a new study.
Only the New Guinea singing dog, so named because of its ability to modulate its howli
4:29 PM AEDT | WHILE not quite the same as in his homeland, one Irish expat yesterday said Tasmania threw a pretty good St Patrick's Day.
Bishopsbourne's Paul Carlisle, 19, moved from Northern Ireland to
4:28 PM AEDT | IT took about a week but Sweetie and her companion Ishmar Ling have found their way home, to a new home in Scottsdale.
Gino Chirichiello and Karlee McKaskill are the proud new owners and Ms McKask
4:27 PM AEDT | Cops nabbed: Scores of police officers - including the entire department of one town - have been detained in Mexican probes of killings and kidnappings.
Mayor Alfredo Osorio, of the Gulf coast town Tierra Blanc