A DANCE-FLOOR party trick at a suburban hotel that went wrong has left a former thoroughbred track rider with a broken neck.

THE body of one of South Australia's most scandalous premiers has been exhumed a century after his death.

A MAN has been stabbed in what police said was a neighbourhood dispute in Melbourne's south-east.

FORMER Labor treasurer Tony Sheehan landed a $1 million deal for helping win a lucrative Victorian gambling licence.

24-year-old Kiwi Cody Cooper will compete in the 2008 AMA motocross championship for the Biloxi, Mississippi-based Suzuki City/OTSFF/Rockstar team. The Australian and New Zealand Motocross Lites Ch...

A CAR driven by an elderly woman has ploughed into a group of churchgoers in Adelaide injuring three people.

ENTERTAINER Patti Newton says she is devastated after thieves stole valuable and sentimental jewellery while she was having coffee at a Melbourne shopping centre.

SWIMMING great Tracey Wickham has admitted herself to hospital suffering from depression after the tragic cancer death of her daughter.

ONE police officer has been punched in the face and another spat on during separate incidents in Queensland.

SHOPPING mall operator Westfield says it has seen distressed tenants throughout its malls, with director Stephen Lowy noticing a small increase in arrears.

AUSTRALIA'S "chardy party" is finally over, with growers in the nation's biggest wine grape-producing district being told to bin chardonnay crops.

DESPITE pleas for restraint, official figures show pay increases in some sectors racing well ahead of the 4 per cent inflation rate.

A MAN is in a critical condition in a north Queensland hospital after a serious assault at Airlie Beach.

TWO divers rescued yesterday in waters off the Whitsundays were cracking jokes after their 19-hour ordeal, a rescue helicopter pilot says.

HUGH Jackman says he probably wouldn't have got the green light to shoot X-Men Origins: Wolverine in Sydney in the current economic climate.