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UPDATED: A 36-YEAR-OLD South Australian boilermaker has been found murdered on a remote Malaysian island.

Australian tennis star Lleyton Hewitt copped a $1,000 fine yesterday for "unsportsmanlike conduct" after an angry reaction to being called for successive foot faults. This guy just doesn't change, does he?

An incompent American surgeon nicknamed "Doctor Death" by medical staff at the Queensland hospital where he worked for two years is heading back to face charges. He basically flunked out of America and becomes Head of Surgery in Australia. 17 deaths later he toddles off home. Unbelievable.

In a move that resembles science fiction writing our future, marketers are creating a behemoth, imaginary, multicultural Asia mixing the various cultures into one. It's doubtful some Westerners would be able to discern any difference in any case.

Facebook friends of a murdered woman are asking hard questions of Queensland Police. The investigation's only contact with the murdered woman's estranged husband was a phone call, after which he apparently fled the country.

Co-founder of the Kenja cult Jan Hamilton, has staged a fake theatre audition in an apparent attempt to harass the woman she blames for the suicide of her husband - who was accused of child sex. That's cult life for you.

The town camps of the NTs Alice Springs will receive $50 million dollars to upgrade roads, services and houses under a new deal brokered by the current Minister of Indigenous Affairs Jenny Macklin. Mal Borough the previous Minister had offered $60 million, but the deal had failed over the terms of leasing the land from the local council. All good and well - for Alice. What about communities outside of the NT?

SOUTH Australian Premier Mike Rann emphasised the obvious by saying his government would remove children in danger from their parents. What the hell was he doing before?

A leader of Melbourne's Somalian community has called for pologymy to be recognised, citing it's growth in Australia.

One wonders what is going on at NASA when temperature records show its cooler now than it was in 1988 when Mr Hansen began his campaign of alarmist rhetoric. As Hansen continues his fear mongering to manipulate public opinion the question is what is NASAs liability and duty of care to the populace and is scaring people to prepare for warming when the should be preparing for global cooling either responsible or appropriate?. One also has to ask where is NASA's accountability to the public to produce facts rather than alarmist opinions and where is their due process in considering all scenarios rather than pushing one worldview to the neglect of others. Finally where is the independent auditing of NASA?

A man found asleep in a motorized wheelchair on a highway in northern Australia was charged with drunk driving, police said Monday.

Officers in a patrol car noticed the man slumped in the stationary chair about 10 a.m. Friday on an exit lane near the tourist city of Cairns, regional traffic Inspector Bob Waters said. Cars were swerving to get around him, Waters said.

The officers breath-tested the 64-year-old man, who registered a blood alcohol reading of 0.301 _ more than six times the legal driving limit. He was charged with operating a vehicle while drunk and ordered to report to court on July 7, where he faces a stiff fine if convicted.

An Australian coroner ruled Friday that an American man should face a murder trial in the death of his wife, who drowned while on a reef dive during their honeymoon in 2003.

The finding will set in motion an arrest warrant and proceedings to extradite Daniel Gabriel Watson of Birmingham, Ala., to Australia to be put on trial. He could face life in prison if convicted of murder.

Watson's lawyer has denied the allegations, saying he believes police in Australia have been intent on blaming his client for the death regardless of the evidence.

The Australian June 20th 2008 ENVIRONMENT campaigner Al Gore is using more electricity than ever, despite pledging to cut consumption more than a year ago. According to the Tennessee Centre for Policy Research, the annual electricity usage at the former US vice-president's home in Nashville, Tennessee, has risen by 10 per cent. Mr Gore's environmental activism inspired the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. But the TCPR branded him a "hypocrite" in February last year after discovering that his eight-bathroom house had consumed nearly 221,000 kilowatt hours of electricity in the previous year - more than 20 times the national average.

Meteorologist Grant Dade: "Is the Earth warming? Yes, I think it is. But is man causing that? No. It's a simple climate cycle our climate goes through over thousands of years." John Coleman, founder of The Weather Channel and now a weathercaster for San Diego's independent KUSI, argues forcefully that manmade global warming is "the greatest scam in history" Neil Frank, the 25-year director of the National Hurricane Center, recently retired after 21 years as chief meteorologist at Houston's CBS affiliate, KHOU, in 2006 told the Washington Post that it is "a hoax" and that greenhouse emissions actually may help what he called "a carbon dioxide-starved world."

I ask: “What is Endangered: Climate or Freedom?” My answer is: “it is our freedom.” I may also add “and our prosperity”. Václav Klaus, former President of the Czech Republic http://www.klaus.cz/klaus2/asp/clanek.asp?id=IS0gccWYLKQK I do not, however, live in the past and do not see the future threats to free society coming from the old and old-fashioned communist ideology. The name of the new danger will undoubtedly be different, but its substance will be very similar. There will be the same attractive, to a great extent pathetic and at first sight quasi-noble idea that transcends the individual in the name of something above him, (of something greater than his poor self), supplemented by enormous self-confidence on the side of those who stand behind it. Like their predecessors, they will be certain that they have the right to sacrifice man and his freedom to make their idea reality. In the past it was in the name of the masses (or of the Proletariat), this time in the name of the Planet. Structurally, it is very similar.

An epic Australian outback movie starring Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman will spearhead a new tourism campaign designed to recapture the country's "mojo" and lure more visitors Down Under.

A helicopter was unable to save the pair from the air. That's when Geoff Mills sprung into action.

Virgin Blue's decision to cut routes has delivered another blow to Australia's struggling tourism industry but things could have been worse, industry groups say.

Bangalore : iGATE Corporation, an integrated technology and operations firm, announced that its new USD two million Australia-based Information and Communication Technology facility in Ballarat, Victoria, ...

SYDNEY, Australia EBay said Friday it will postpone plans to make its PayPal system the only way to pay for deals on its auction site in Australia after the antitrust regulator said it would reduce competition.