Category archives for: Australia

Australia’s inflation accelerates on rising food prices

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Australia’s consumer prices rose more than forecast in the second quarter as high cost of food and fuel put pressure on inflation. Prices rose by 3.6% in the three months to the end of June from the same period last year, Food prices have been rising due to the devastation caused by floods and cyclones [...]

Charges laid after woman, 83, bound and gagged in Dandenong

AN alleged intruder has been charged after an elderly woman was bound and gagged for nine hours in Melbourne's southeast.

  Report by BBC Latest News         AN alleged intruder has been charged after an elderly woman was bound and gagged for nine hours in Melbourne’s southeast. BBC Latest News reporter says:Detectives from Dandenong CIU charged the local woman, 31, with aggravated burglary, theft and false imprisonment after an aggravated burglary in [...]

Police Search

Police search for missing 18yo

According to BBC Latest News: A HELICOPTER, marine police and the SES are searching the River Derwent and surrounding areas in the New Norfolk area for a missing man. Tasmania Police said officers were told about 2am that the 18-year-old was missing. Police are concentrating their search on the river, with local police and two [...]

Princess Charlene of Monaco ‘spent honeymoon sleeping 10 MILES away from husband Albert’ in different hotel

Princess Charlene of Monaco 'spent honeymoon sleeping 10 MILES away from husband Albert' in different hotel

Princess Charlene of Monaco ‘spent honeymoon sleeping 10 MILES away from husband Albert’ in different hotel Prince Albert of Monaco and his bride spent their honeymoon in separate hotels ten miles apart, it has been claimed. The 53-year-old billionaire and his 33-year-old wife of just over a week have cut short their trip to South [...]

Missing NSW teen Amber Michelle Haigh dead and likely murdere

Missing NSW teen Amber Michelle Haigh dead and likely murdere

A teenage woman missing for the past nine years is dead and was most likely murdered, a coroner has found. Amber Michelle Haigh, from Young in southern NSW, was a 19-year-old mother of a baby boy when she was last officially seen in June 2002. At the inquest into her presumed death on Friday, NSW [...]

Four quakes shake Melbourne

Earth Quake

        According to BBC Latest News reporter THE ground was shaking yesterday and overnight, with tremors from four earthquakes felt in Melbourne. The first quake, with a magnitude of 4.4 hit at 11.32am yesterday, in Korumburra, which is about 120km away from the CBD. The next came at 12.37pm, and was a [...]

Australian commando dies in Afghanistan battle

Two Australian Commandos Killed

According to BBC Latest Australian News Reporter has lost another decorated soldier as the nation reaps a bitter harvest from Afghanistan’s fighting season. Highly experienced commando Sergeant Todd Langley, 35, based in Sydney, was shot in the head and died in a battle with insurgents, Defence chief General David Hurley announced on his second day in [...]

AN Australian man has died

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Bbc Latest News  reported overnight that the 34-year-old leapt from the balcony of a hotel in the resort town of Patong after a bizarre confrontation with local police. Authorities were reportedly called to the Bel Air Resort after the man checked into a room at about 3am He was spotted by security dancing alone on [...]

Tiger grounded

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The aviation regulator says it grounded Tiger Airways’ Australian fleet because it lost confidence in the airline’s ability to manage its safety. The Civil Aviation Safety Authority has suspended Tiger Airways domestic operations for a week, saying it believes permitting the airline to continue to fly poses a serious and imminent risk to air safety. [...]

Flow on effect of cattle ban

Sheep farmers fear flow on effect of cattle ban

Flow on effect of cattle banAccording to Latest NewsLFarmers will gather at Katanning in the Great Southern today to pressure the Federal Government to overturn the live cattle ban to Indonesia. The Government suspended the trade for up to six months after footage of animal cruelty in Indonesian abattoirs aired on ABC television. Pastoralists and [...]

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