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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
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New stimulus package passes house, goes to senate
By Melissa Jenkins
13 Feb 2009 12:21 AM
CANBERRA, Feb 12 AAP - The Rudd government will have a second crack at getting its $42 billion economic stimulus package through the Senate on Friday after a new version passed the lower house late on Thursday night.
The amended package, introduced by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, will see cash handouts to low and middle-income earners and single-income families cut by $50, a concession won by the Australian Greens.
Single-income families and those earning less than $80,000 will now receive $900, while people on incomes of between $80,000 and $90,000 will receive $600, and those earning between $90,000 and $100,000 will get a $250 bonus.
The original package was torpedoed on Thursday after independent Senator Nick Xenophon sided with the coalition when the government refused to fast-track $3.1 billion in funds already allocated for water buy-backs and irrigation projects in the Murray-Darling Basin.
Senator Xenophon said late on Thursday that he was willing to return to the negotiating table.
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Vic: Former drug squad detective charged with murder
MELBOURNE, Feb 13 AAP - A former drug squad detective charged with the murder of a police informer says he wants his day in court. More...
Vic: Public warned against revenge after arson charge
MELBOURNE, Feb 13 AAP - Local residents were warned against seeking revenge after a man was charged over the Churchill bushfire which killed 21 people in Gippsland, in Victoria's southeast. More...
Vic: Mild conditions help fire fighters, but new blazes threaten
MELBOURNE, Feb 13 AAP - Authorities say the threat of new bushfires in Victoria remains high, despite the mild conditions and light winds that continue to assist fire fighters. More...
US: 49 killed in New York plane crash: officials
NEW YORK, Feb 13 AFP - All 48 passengers and crew, plus one person on the ground, were killed when a plane crashed into a house outside Buffalo, New York on Thursday and burst into flames, officials said. More...
Aust dollar firms as $42 billion stimulus passed
SYDNEY, Feb 13 AAP - The Australian dollar closed firmer after the senate passed the federal government's biggest-ever economic stimulus plan. More...
CIS: Crash of US, Russian satellites a threat in space
MOSCOW, Feb 13 AP - US and Russian officials have traded shots over who was to blame for a huge satellite collision that spewed speeding clouds of debris into space, threatening other unmanned spacecraft in nearby orbits. More...
Fed: Stimulus package clears parliament - now for the hard part
CANBERRA, Feb 13 AAP - The Rudd government cleared a final hurdle to get its $42 billion economic injection through parliament but the International Monetary Fund says the key now is to implement its stimulus plan. More...
FED: Bad backs, disease, cheap meals: Bring on Valentine's Day
SYDNEY, Feb 13 AAP - Friday the 13th might be unlucky for some, but who cares if your luck's in the very next day - Valentine's Day? More...
Vic: Bushfire devastation rivals combat scenes: major general
MELBOURNE, Feb 13 AAP - Victoria's bushfire devastation ranks alongside some of the worst combat scenes witnessed by a top Australian military official. More...
FED: Kidnapped Australian released by internet scammers
An Australian man taken hostage in Gambia by Nigerian internet scammers has been released and his captors arrested. More...
US: Commuter plane crashes into home in US
BUFFALO, New York, Feb 12 AP - New York state police say a 50-passenger commuter plane has crashed into a home in suburban Buffalo. More...
Vic: Firebug strikes as bushfire relief telethon airs
MELBOURNE, Feb 13 AAP - Police are hunting a firebug whose actions briefly threatened the Mornington Peninsula town of Baxter on Thursday night, as the Nine Network aired its bushfire relief telethon. More...
UK: Pope shocked by bushfires
LONDON, Feb 12 AAP - Pope Benedict XVI has expressed his shock at the damage caused by the Victorian bushfires while welcoming Australia's new ambassador to the Vatican, Tim Fischer. More...
Vic: Fires take their toll on wineries
One winery has been destroyed and many vineyards have been lost .. as Victoria's Yarra Valley wine growers begin to count the cost of bushfires that have devastated the region since Saturday. More...
EUR: Alleged skinhead attack on Brazilian stuns Swiss
GENEVA, Feb 12 AP - Zurich police are investigating an alleged skinhead assault on a pregnant Brazilian woman that caused her to miscarry twins and left her scarred with the initials of Switzerland's main right-wing party. More...
EUR: Greek police report series of firebomb attacks
ATHENS, Greece, Feb 12 AP - A group of suspected anarchists carried out a dozen firebomb attacks in Athens on Thursday, targeting the home of Greece's top anti-terrorism prosecutor and the offices of a judge, a leading criminologist and the Communist Party's official newspaper, authorities said. More...
ASIA: Thousands of US weapons astray in Afghanistan: auditors
WASHINGTON, Feb 12 AFP - Thousands of US weapons, including assault rifles and grenade launchers, may be in Taliban or al-Qaeda hands in Afghanistan because of lax controls, congressional auditors warned on Thursday. More...
US: Americans favour probe of 'war on terror' excesses
WASHINGTON, Feb 12 AFP - Two-thirds of Americans favour investigating whether the George W Bush administration overstepped legal boundaries in its "war on terror," according to a poll released on Thursday by USA Today and Gallup. More...
NSW: Shark attacks man at Bondi.
SYDNEY, Feb 12 AAP - A man attacked by a shark at Bondi is the first victim of a shark attack at the beach in 80 years. More...
US: Satellite collision poses 'small' risk to ISS: NASA
WASHINGTON, Feb 12 AFP - An unprecedented collision between a Russian and a US satellite poses an "elevated" but "very small" risk to the International Space Station, the US space agency said Thursday. More...
Fed: New stimulus package passes house, goes to senate
CANBERRA, Feb 12 AAP - The Rudd government will have a second crack at getting its $42 billion economic stimulus package through the Senate on Friday after a new version passed the lower house late on Thursday night. More...
US: 2 big satellites collide over Siberia
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, Feb 12 AP - Two big communications satellites collided in the first-ever crash of its kind in orbit, shooting out a pair of massive debris clouds and posing a slight risk to the international space station. More...
SA: Holden to offer loan cars to bushfire victims
Holden will provide 300 vehicles to help victims of the Victorian bushfires. More...
Qld: Flood damage nudges $200m
Western Queensland's bracing for flooding as the clean-up begins in earnest in the north and the state's damage bill nudges 200 million dollars. More...
Fed: Senate rejects stimulus package
CANBERRA, Feb 12 AAP - The Rudd government's $42 billion economic stimulus package has been rejected by parliament. More...
WA: Man beats odds, technology in remote mine rescue
PERTH, Feb 12 AAP - An aircraft's chance detection of a distress signal likely saved the life of a man badly injured at a remote mine site. More...
WA: Man beats odds and technology in Kalgoorlie rescue
A badly injured man rescued from a secluded minesite near Kalgoorlie is lucky to be alive .. after activating an emergency distress beacon using the expired analogue radio frequency. More...
US: Body dragged 27km on NY highways
NEW YORK, Feb 11 AP - New York police say a person was hit by a car then swept under a van and dragged 27km through the city before the driver realised it. More...
MID: Israeli rivals battle for power after tight vote
JERUSALEM, Feb 11 AFP - Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and hawkish ex-premier Benjamin Netanyahu were locked in a battle for power on Wednesday after a photo-finish election that could send peace talks into limbo. More...
Vic: Woman dead, three men injured, man at large after stabbing
MELBOURNE, Feb 12 AAP - A woman is dead, three men are critically injured and their alleged assailant is at large following a stabbing at a property in central Victoria. More...
NSW: NSW to help fight Vic fires until at least next week
SYDNEY, Feb 11 AAP - NSW's contribution to the Victorian firefighting effort will continue until at least the end of next week with hot conditions forecast until then. More...
Vic: Residents return to Kinglake fire horror
KINGLAKE, Vic, Feb 11 AAP - Farmer Charles Exton knows more about potatoes than bombs, but he has no doubt about what he saw as the hellish inferno rolled through Pheasant Creak on Saturday. More...
NSW: Newborn baby found wrapped in blanket at tip
SYDNEY, Feb 11 AAP - A dead baby boy, just days old and wrapped in a blanket, has been found on a conveyor belt among household waste at a Sydney rubbish tip. More...
FED: Snapshot of Victorian bushfires
SNAPSHOT OF VICTORIAN BUSHFIRES, February 11 More...
EUR:Situation "very tense", unrest possible in Tibet: Dalai Lama
BADEN BADEN, Germany, Feb 11 AFP - Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama warned on Wednesday that the situation in his homeland was "very tense" and that an uprising was possible. More...
EUR: German barman in dock after deadly drinking bet
A German barman has faced manslaughter charges in court after tricking a teenager into downing at least 45 shots of tequila during a drinking bet that resulted in the 16-year-old's death. More...
Fed: Cheaper milk on the way
CANBERRA, Feb 11 AAP - The price of a litre of milk is expected to drop by 11 cents later this month when a federal government tax is lifted. More...
Swim: Pro-pot lobby rips Kellogg Co. for dropping Phelps
NEW YORK, Feb 10 AP - Bursting with indignation, legions of marijuana advocates are urging a boycott of Kellogg Co., including all of its popular munchies, for deciding to cut ties with Olympic hero Michael Phelps after he was photographed with a pot pipe. More...
Vic: Fire fighters battle to keep blazes from joining
MELBOURNE, Feb 11 AAP - Firefighters are working furiously to build containment lines as two major blazes burning close together in Victoria threaten to join. More...
Vic: Portrait of an arsonist
MELBOURNE, Feb 11 AAP - The police say they are closing in on bushfire arsonists responsible for the Saturday's hellfire, but what sort of people are they looking for? More...
Fed: Bushfire truce and gentle politics
CANBERRA, Feb 11 AAP - The political truce in the face of the emotionally overwhelming Victorian bushfires is holding. More...
MID: Israel votes in tight election race
JERUSALEM, Feb 10 AFP - Israel has voted in a tight race between hawkish former premier Benjamin Netanyahu and centrist Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, with the far-right set for major gains on the back of the Gaza war. More...
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