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Calls for more roads spending »
HE Australian government’s being pressured to spend more of the annual billions of dollars in petrol tax collected improving the nation’s highways.
$5m man lives in van, fixes potholes »
A MAN who won $5 million in Lotto still lives in a caravan and has no plans to retire from his local council job fixing potholes.
Gangland execution plot »
A BRAZEN gangland execution planned for the heart of a capital city’s legal precinct has been narrowly averted by authorities.
Hello world, it’s me: Laws back on radio »
TWO YEARS after retiring from radio, broadcaster John Laws is preparing for a comeback.
Teacher charged over drunken orgy brawl »
A TEACHER’S aid allegedly involved in New Year’s Eve sex party brawl has appeared in court.
Six die in PNG plane crash »
Six people are dead and a pilot is fighting for his life in hospital after their Cessna light plane crashed in Papua New Guinea.
King of Middle Earth Peter Jackson made a knight »
Oscar-winning movie director and king of Middle Earth, Peter Jackson has been made a knight in the first New Zealand honours list since the country reinstated the title.
Female driver blows 14 times Aussie blood-alcohol limit »
A United States motorist has recorded a blood-alcohol reading of .708 – more than 14 times the Australian legal limit of .05.
Six dead, Aussie pilot injured after PNG plane crash »
Six people are dead and an Australian pilot is fighting for his life in hospital after their Cessna light plane crashed in Papua New Guinea.
Thatcher unsympathetic to boat people »
Margaret Thatcher was unsympathetic to the fate of Vietnamese boat people, saying it was wrong for them to get social housing in the UK ahead of white Britons.