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3:26 PM AEDT | Police have arrested a 25-year-old North Melbourne man in relation to an aggravated burglary in Ballarat East.
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11:44 AM AEDT | Petrol prices have soared to a 16-month high and analysts say drivers can expect little relief in the short term. Unleaded petrol, which has surged 16 cents a litre to $1.38 since the end of February, is expected to push even higher as the price of crude oil climbs on international markets.
10:52 AM AEDT | POLICE had been hearing rumours for months about an eastern suburbs cocaine dealer known as ''the Man''.
10:41 AM AEDT | Six men have been charged over a terrifying brawl at a shopping centre in Melbourne’s east yesterday.
10:26 AM AEDT | A schoolgirl was robbed at gunpoint and indecently assaulted on a street in Sydney's west yesterday.
9:40 AM AEDT | Police have charged a 34-year-old South Australian man following a pursuit at Ballarat last night.
9:08 AM AEDT | The frontrunner to take over the safe Labor seat of Canberra is poised to quit the race amid claims Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was about to personally intervene in the contest.
8:59 AM AEDT | Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has effectively launched the federal election campaign, calling the first of three debates with Opposition Leader Tony Abbott.
8:47 AM AEDT | A drink-driver whose children were in the back seat when she crashed her car into a Kambah house has been banned from driving for three months.
8:00 AM AEDT | United States President Barack Obama is delaying his trip to Australia and Indonesia to concentrate on the passage of his healthcare legislation which he has made the centrepiece of his first term.
4:00 AM AEDT | State MPs arrived at Macquarie Street yesterday to find themselves confronted with the fallout from a serious leak - but not the political kind. Instead, parliamentary staff were busy mopping up on four levels after a mysterious flood overnight.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE Keneally government is frustrating attempts by the opposition to enshrine the rights of the state's 750,000 carers in law, even though mirror legislation was introduced into Federal Parliament on Wednesday.
4:00 AM AEDT | A POLICY of the Department of Forensic Medicine relating to bodies of people who were HIV positive is being challenged on the grounds of discrimination.
4:00 AM AEDT | NOTORIOUS pursuers of publicity though they may be, parliamentarians' egos shrink alarmingly when in Canberra.
4:00 AM AEDT | AUSTRALIA pays vastly more than other countries for defence equipment, a study has found.
4:00 AM AEDT | TASMANIA'S embattled Labor government is continuing its attack on the Greens as tomorrow's state election looms - to the fury of some in the party.
4:00 AM AEDT | AUSTRALIA is one step closer to exporting uranium to Russia, after the government rejected concerns raised by a Labor-dominated committee into an export agreement reached by John Howard and Vladimir Putin.
4:00 AM AEDT | SHOULD Labor lose power in either South Australia or Tasmania - or both - this weekend, the most immediate impact federally will be a confidence boost for Tony Abbott.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE planned clean-up of the radioactive site at Hunters Hill is facing an indefinite delay. The government has missed its own deadline to begin the clean-up, and is yet to even start on the necessary paperwork.
4:00 AM AEDT | MORE than a quarter of all assaults in pubs and clubs happen in the six worst hours every week - between midnight and 3am on Saturdays and Sundays - lending support for calls to reduce pub trading hours.