"Possessing opinions is like possessing fish, assuming one has a fish pond. One has to go fishing and needs some luck - then one has one's own fish, one's own opinions. I am speaking of live opinions, of live fish. Others are satisfied if they own a cabinet of fossils - and in their heads, "convictions". - Friedrich Nietzsche
An academic who expects zero interest rates within two years and a 40 per cent drop in house prices has promised to walk from Canberra to the top of Australia's highest mountain if he's wrong.
University of Western Sydney associate professor of economics and finance STEVE KEEN made the bet with Macquarie Group interest rate strategist RORY ROBERTSON.
Police chase stolen car 250km from Wagga to Canberra
20 Jan 2009 12:21 PM
CANBERRA, Jan 20 AAP - Police have arrested a 26-year-old man in Canberra following a 250km high-speed car chase that started in south-western NSW.
NSW police started pursuing the stolen car in Wagga Wagga on Tuesday morning and ACT Policing took up the chase when the driver crossed the border into the territory.
BRISBANE, Dec 31 AAP - Queensland police have caught a man with an alleged blood alcohol reading more than six times the legal limit.
A 28-year-old man from Peak Crossing was stopped overnight for a random breath test in the nearby town of Boonah, south-west of Brisbane, and allegedly blew .303 per cent.
SYDNEY, Dec 20 AAP - The drivers of a Porsche and two motorcycles have had their vehicles confiscated after reaching speeds of more than 220km/h in an alleged road race.
Police say the three men were racing along a 100km/h zone of the Pacific Highway on the far north NSW coast on Saturday about 10.40am (AEST).
MELBOURNE, Dec 15 AAP - Two young men accused of drag racing before a crash that killed a 15-year-old boy will stand trial.
Mitchell Cairnduff, of Wheelers Hill, died when a turbo-charged Mitsubishi Lancer driven by Jarrod Rooke hit a taxi at 120km/h, the Melbourne Magistrates Court heard.
MELBOURNE, Jan 6 AAP - A 78-year-old hoon caught speeding at 170km/h on a narrow country road on New Year's Day told police he was a skilled race driver.
Victorian Premier John Brumby, however, was not impressed with John Belfield's claims, labelling Australia's oldest hoon driver an "idiot", while police said he was toying with death.i
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Ninety-three dead as fires continue to rage across Victoria
By Jamie Duncan
09 Feb 2009 4:35 AM
MELBOURNE, Feb 9 AAP - Ninety-three people are confirmed dead in Australia's deadliest bushfires that have scorched Victoria, with fears the death toll may rise sharply.
There was little rest for many firefighters overnight, with 25 bushfires still raging out of control at 3.30am (AEDT) on Monday.
At least 750 homes have been destroyed and an estimated 330,000ha burnt out while authorities said some fires could take weeks to contain.
The latest death toll, announced by Victoria Police at 2am (AEDT) on Monday, surpasses the toll from the 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires, in which 75 people died in Victoria and South Australia, and the Black Friday bushfires of 1939, which killed 71.
Reflecting the chaos caused by the fires, police early Monday said they could not identify the exact location where five of the victims died.
Of the 93 confirmed deaths, at least 63 perished in the largest blaze, in the Kinglake region, that has cut a vast swath across the central highlands from Wandong, south to Kinglake and nearby Saint Andrews, and northeast towards the upper Goulburn Valley.
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FED: Snapshot of Vic Bushfires
SNAPSHOT OF VICTORIAN BUSHFIRES, February 9 More...
Fed: $950 payments to be "blown on pokies, plasmas": economists
CANBERRA, Feb 9 AAP - Economists have raised concerns the federal government's cash hand-outs to millions of people will be blown on pokies and plasma televisions. More...
Fed: Troops deploy through fire-ravaged state
CANBERRA, Feb 9 AAP - Hundreds of members of the Australian military are deploying throughout fire-ravaged Victoria to help the state cope with the nation's deadliest peacetime tragedy. More...
Qld: Boy was handcuffed when run over and killed, mother says.
BRISBANE, Feb 9 AAP - The mother of a 16-year-old boy hit and killed by a car while being arrested by police says the youth was handcuffed and made to lie on a busy road. More...
Vic: Victorian bushfire toll rises to 131: police
MELBOURNE, Feb 9 AAP - The death toll from Victoria's bushfires has risen to 131, police say. More...
NSW: Officers describe scenes of devastation in Victoria
SYDNEY, Feb 9 AAP - NSW specialist officers sent to Victoria to help identify bushfire victims are walking into scenes of horrific devastation, police say. More...
NT: Bird boom in Australian desert
DARWIN, Feb 9 AAP - There's a bird boom in the dead heart. More...
Vic: 128 dead as fires continue to ravage Victoria
MELBOURNE, Feb 9 AAP - The death toll from Victoria's bushfires could top 200 as authorities sift through the piles of ash that were once entire communities. More...
Vic: Bushfire disaster worse than Bali bombings: burns doctor
MELBOURNE, Feb 9 AAP - A doctor treating Victoria's bushfire burns victims at Melbourne's The Alfred hospital says the magnitude of the disaster is worse than the Bali bombings. More...
Vic: Ninety-three dead as fires continue to rage across Victoria
MELBOURNE, Feb 9 AAP - Ninety-three people are confirmed dead in Australia's deadliest bushfires that have scorched Victoria, with fears the death toll may rise sharply. More...
Vic: Newsreader Brian Naylor and wife die in Kinglake fire
MELBOURNE, Feb 8 AAP - Former Nine Network newsreader Brian Naylor and his wife Moiree have been killed after Victoria's single deadliest bushfire, the Kinglake Complex, razed their property on Saturday. More...
Vic: Hell on earth hits Kinglake
KINGLAKE, Vic, Feb 8 AAP - The end of the world reached the Victorian mountain town of Kinglake on Saturday, February 7. More...
Vic: Hell on earth hits Kinglake
KINGLAKE, Vic, Feb 8 AAP - The end of the world reached the Victorian mountain town of Kinglake on Saturday, February 7. More...
VIC: Victorian bushfire toll rises to 84
Police says the death toll from Victoria's bushfires has risen to 84. More...
Vic: Newssreader Brian Naylor missing, wife dead, in fires
Former Nine Network newsreader BRIAN NAYLOR is missing and his wife MOIREE is dead after a bushfire razed their property at Kinglake West yesterday. More...
FED: 76 dead in Vic, as more than 100 fires burn across Aust
The death toll from the Victorian bushfires has reached 76: More...
VIC: Victorian bushfire toll rises to 76=3D2
Seven of the latest reported deaths were in Steels Creek, southeast of Kinglake, with two deaths in Mudgegonga, near Beechworth in the state's northeast, and one at St Andrews, also near Kinglake, Victoria Police confirmed. More...
NSW: Bushfire threat wanes as cool change approaches
SYDNEY, Feb 8 AAP - The bushfire threat for NSW has waned with the chance of unpredictable winds accompanying a forecast cool southerly change the greatest remaining concern for authorities. More...
Vic: Victorian bushfire toll rises to 65: police
MELBOURNE, Feb 8 AAP - The death toll from Victoria's bushfires has risen to 65, police say. More...
Vic: Fire toll rises to 50 =3D 2
Five people died at Flowerdale, two people at Hazeldene and three at Taggerty, while two more people were confirmed dead at Kinglake and a further person died at St Andrews. More...
Vic: Bushfire razes beautiful Marysville
MELBOURNE, Feb 8 AAP - On the crispest of winter days, the resort village of Marysville, northeast of Melbourne, becomes blanketed in a gentle cover of snow. More...
NSW: Almost 60 fires burning across the state
AT LEAST 59 FIRES BUSHFIRES WERE BURNING ACROSS NSW WITH 10 OUT OF CONTROL More...
Fed: Thousands of students set to miss out on payment: Greens
CANBERRA, Feb 8 AAP - Thousands of students will miss out on the government's one-off payment if the $42 billion stimulus package is not amended, the Australian Greens say. More...
VIC: 35 killed in Victorian bushfires, police
The death toll from Victoria's savage bushfires has risen to 35 .. with at least another eight people in critical condition in hospital. More...
NSW: Two boys struck and killed by cars in separate incidents
SYDNEY, Feb 8 AAP - Two teenagers are dead after being struck by cars in separate accidents on NSW roads. More...
Vic: Gippsland, Bendigo houses under threat from fires
MELBOURNE, Feb 8 AAP - More communities and towns were coming under threat of fire in the early hours of Sunday as Victoria's killer bushfires continued to rage across the state. More...
UK: UK milkman delivered cannabis with bottles of milk
LONDON, Feb 7 AP - A British prosecutor says an elderly milkman supplied customers with cannabis as well as bottles of milk. More...
Vic: Brumby describes bushfires as "devastating"
MELBOURNE, Feb 7 AAP - Victorian Premier John Brumby has described the ferocious bushfires that killed 14 people, injured many more and ravaged much of the state on Saturday as "the worst day in our history". More...
SYDNEY, Feb 7 AAP - Victoria's worst fears were realised on Saturday when fourteen people were killed by bushfires. More...
Vic: Fourteen deaths as fires ravage Victoria =3D2
"This is an absolute tragedy for the state and we believe the figure may even get worse," Mr Walshe said. More...
Vic: Victoria braces for rise in bushire death toll
Victoria police say they fear 40 people may have perished in today's bushfires .. that have wreaked havoc on the state. More...
NSW: Man believed to have been shot by motorcycle gang.
A man shot in broad daylight at a popular motor cycle event in Sydney's west is believed to have been involved in an altercation with a motorcycle gang. More...
Fed: Rudd should get off bulldozer and talk: Turnbull
SYDNEY, Feb 7 AAP - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd should "get off his bulldozer" and speak to the coalition about the government's $42 billion stimulus package, opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull says. More...
NSW: Man accused of pushing policewoman in front of traffic
SYDNEY, Feb 7 AAP - A man accused of pushing a female police officer into the path of oncoming traffic has been charged after being pulled over for drink driving. More...
NSW: Arson suspected for bushfire on the move
Arson is suspected as the cause of three bushfires in New South Wales Hunter region .. that firefighters say are spreading at an alarming rate. More...
NSW: Arson suspected for bushfire on the move
SYDNEY, Feb 7 AAP - Arson is suspected as the cause of three bushfires in NSW Hunter region that are consuming terrain at an alarming rate. More...
NSW: Hot and dry, hot and humid weather comes to NSW
SYDNEY, Feb 7 AAP - As much of NSW broils in near record weekend temperatures, health authorities urge caution and common sense to avoid potentially lethal heatstroke. More...
NSW: Smoke covers Sydney, firefighters ready to pull out
Sweltering summer conditions are pushing smoke from a bushfire south to Sydney .. and have put fire crews across New South Wales on high alert. More...
NSW: Man suffers stab wounds after machete attack
SYDNEY, Feb 7 AAP - A man has suffered stab wounds after being attacked by two men with machetes during a home invasion in Sydney's south west. More...
Fed: $27 million in funding for climate change projects
The green technology sector is set to benefit from over 27 million dollars in new funding as part of the federal government's Climate Ready program. More...
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