Temperatures are set to soar in New South Wales today with a catastrophic fire danger and total fire bans across the state.
ABC - November 21, 2009, 1:33 amThe New South Wales Government has denied claims it is trying to axe bushfire fighting jobs across the state.
ABC - November 21, 2009, 9:07 amFire crews have started investigating the cause of a bushfire that destroyed at least three homes on Tasmania's east coast yesterday.
ABC - November 21, 2009, 8:34 amThe Christmas Island Shire Council says there is not enough housing to cope with an influx of officials and contractors working at the immigration detention centre.
ABC - November 21, 2009, 7:30 amVictorian police have confirmed they are investigating another attack on an Indian student in Melbourne's northern suburbs last weekend.
ABC - November 20, 2009, 9:44 pmAn Adelaide businessman has been sentenced to five years in jail after being convicted of trafficking drugs to Sydney.
ABC - November 20, 2009, 9:11 pm
In a scathing judgement, Western Australia's coroner says the decision to allow a group of vehicles onto the highway ahead of a firestorm forecast was "foolhardy in the extreme".
ABC - November 20, 2009, 8:12 pmFederal police have raided the offices of a Reserve Bank subsidiary in Melbourne in the latest part of a scandal involving plastic banknotes in other countries.
ABC - November 20, 2009, 8:03 pmW-A police believe a new, lethal batch of heroin is responsible for at least three fatal over-doses in the past week.
ABC - November 20, 2009, 8:00 pm
Less than a week after having his vehicle crushed under anti-hoon laws, a 19-year-old Perth man has had another car impounded by police.
ABC - November 20, 2009, 7:50 pmAlmost 200 permanent and casual jobs will be lost at Smithton in Tasmania's north-west next year, when McCain Foods closes its vegetable processing plant.
ABC - November 20, 2009, 5:08 pm
The former Premier, Richard Court, says royalty payments from resources companies should flow directly to the State Government instead of the Federal Government.
ABC - November 20, 2009, 4:44 pm
Entrants in the Adelaide Classic rally have held a minute's silence to remember two men killed while competing in the event.
ABC - November 20, 2009, 4:36 pm
A dog has been trained to prevent cane toads entering Groote Eylandt in the Gulf of Carpenteria.
ABC - November 20, 2009, 4:23 pm
At least one property has been lost in a bushfire on Tasmania's east coast, and more are under threat.
ABC - November 20, 2009, 4:20 pm
As bushfires burn across three states and temperatures soar past 40 degrees in areas with catastrophic fire warnings, some residents say they are too afraid to let down their guard.
ABC - November 20, 2009, 4:13 pmThe husband of children's author Mem Fox has denied allegations of child sex crimes.
ABC - November 20, 2009, 4:08 pm
Lightning, fires and wild storms continue to wreak havoc across Australia with homes gutted, properties under threat and enormous clean-ups underway.
ABC - November 20, 2009, 4:00 pmLocal industries should be exempt from the Federal Government's proposed emissions trading scheme, the Northern Territory Opposition's spokesman on business affairs says.
ABC - November 20, 2009, 4:00 pmA cool change has swept across Victoria, causing some storm damage.
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