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TROUBLESOME patients, some seriously ill, are being forced to sign behaviour contracts to stay in public hospitals in Victoria.

QUEENSLAND Premier Anna Bligh will visit the state's far north today for talks on tightening alcohol restrictions and improving family life in remote Aboriginal communities.

A MILITARY inquiry into the death of an Australian soldier in East Timor will continue hearings in Brisbane today.

NEW mayors have been urged, in a new handbook, not to try to emulate the leadership skills of Arnold Schwarzenegger or Angelina Jolie.

EMERGENCY services chiefs, local government leaders and academics will gather in north Queensland today for a summit on how to better manage natural disasters.

On the 22nd and 23rd of April, 400 riders arrived at the Lang Park Complex in Townsville to begin the first round of the Queensland Yamaha Motocross Titles. Little did they know that one young man...

The Team Teka Suzuki WMX1 win-streak continues in the 2008 FIM MX1 Motocross World Championship with reigning World Champion Steve Ramon taking overall victory in deep, difficult and some might say...

on Saturday. I'd been to Paddy's in Chinatown before, but this is the big market out near Homebush. It was INSANE. Hundreds of stalls with people selling fruit and veggies by the boxload, and it was all incredibly cheap. Bananas

PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has put taxation reform in the spotlight just one day after the 2020 Summit.

LOCAL council bin police wearing head lamps are prowling neighbourhoods in the middle of the night to check whether residents are recycling.

A CAREER criminal giving evidence in the Lewis Moran murder trial says he sentenced himself to a lifetime as an outcast for helping police and giving evidence for the prosecution.

ANOTHER television piece relating to Melbourne's gangland war has been banned by the same judge who stopped the Nine Network drama Underbelly.

GENERATION X employees feel unloved at work, and Generation Y are taking all the attention.

TAXI drivers face fines of more than $5500 for jumping the queue at Melbourne Airport.

DRUG trafficker Roberta Williams has a new bloke, but says she's still in love with her ex-husband, Carl.

A MELBOURNE man who entered into a suicide pact with his girlfriend and survived will stand trial charged with helping her to die.

FOUR men have been remanded in custody charged with the early morning robbery of a young Queensland couple as they slept in their car near Melbourne's Crown Casino.

The obvious next step is for this Philip Parker guy to start paying "real" authors not to write.

THE Federal Government will have to deliver an 'extremely tough budget' to avoid further interest rate rises, an economic forecaster says.