Man steals donations from Melbourne church

MELBOURNE police are hoping a man who stole church donations comes clean with a confession. The man, who was captured on CCTV, stole the cash from two tins at a Seventh-Day Adventist church at Clayton last Sunday. Detective Senior Constable...

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Girl dead, men injured after plane crash

A YOUNG girl has died and two men have survived a plane crash into a northern NSW river believed to have happened after their aircraft hit power lines. The pilot, a 50-year-old man who suffered only minor injuries, freed himself from the wreckage...

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Ita to remain at category one strength

CYCLONE Ita is unlikely to drop below cyclone strength despite making landfall 19 hours ago, the Bureau of Meteorology has warned. A cyclone warning issued at 5pm (AEST) shows Ita will remain at category one strength and will head out into the...

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Bureaucrat warned about batts evidence

A senior bureaucrat has told an inquiry he warned superiors the home insulation scheme wasn't safe. Source: AAP A RUDD government bureaucrat has been warned against giving false or misleading evidence at the royal commission into the troubled...

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Bigot? Snob? Not me, says Carr

A Labor frontbencher believes it was a mistake to recruit Bob Carr (pic) to federal parliament. Source: AAP WHATEVER you think of Bob Carr - snob, bigot, high-flyer, avid organic oats eater - don't accuse him of being shy. Revelations...

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Father of missing girl distraught

A frantic search has begun for a three-year-old girl feared abducted from her south Queensland home. Source: AAP THE father of missing three-year-old Chloe Campbell believes someone who knows the family took her. Garth Campbell says there...

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Bob Carr laments first world problems

FORMER foreign minister Bob Carr likes his breakfast oats steel-cut and his Wagner opera to carry English subtitles. So his latest book - Diary of a Foreign Minister - could well be subtitled First World Problems. If the first insights into...

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Union labels inquiry a witch-hunt

Royal commission hearings into the unions will begin in Sydney before a former High Court judge. Source: AAP A ROYAL commission into trade union governance, slush funds and corruption is nothing more than a witch-hunt and taxpayers will be...

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David Jones: Under new management, almost

David Jones will remain a fixture of the Australian retail scene says its new overseas buyers. Source: AAP THE Scotsman in charge of the South African company aiming to buy David Jones wanted to reassure Australians that they're not losing...

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Firms fret over Hockey's budget intention

AS Joe Hockey jets off to the US to get the international vibe ahead of his first budget, businesses are fretting over how tough the treasurer will be in repairing the nation's finances. In Washington, Mr Hockey will chair his second meeting of...

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We are stopping Santos: Pilliga protesters

PROTESTERS campaigning against a coal seam gas project in northwestern NSW say they've halted the operations of energy giant Santos for a fifth straight day. Santos is currently undertaking preparatory work in the Pilliga forest, but demonstrators...

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Woman killed in Vic collision

A WOMAN has been killed in a collision between a car and a truck in wet conditions in Melbourne. Police said the woman died at the scene following the crash on Tuesday afternoon at Doreen, northeast of Melbourne. It was not clear if the truck...

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Man arrested over Collombet case

THE man wanted for questioning over the brutal murder of French student Sophie Collombet has been arrested. Benjamin James Milward, 25, was taken into custody in the northern NSW town of Coffs Harbour on Monday afternoon and Queensland police...

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Firm donated $5000 to meet Newman: ICAC

Australian Water Holdings donated $5000 in 2007 to meet Campbell Newman, an inquiry has heard. Source: AAP AN Obeid-linked company paid out $5000 to secure a meeting with Queensland Premier Campbell Newman when he was lord mayor of Brisbane,...

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Terrorist Bashir 'wants elections bombed'

SUSPECTED Bali bombing mastermind Abu Bakar Bashir has encouraged his supporters to attack this week's Indonesian legislative elections, according to a report. The convicted terrorist has asked supporters not to be "unproductive" and to disrupt...

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