- - Excises should be removed on light beer to cut alcohol-related crime and health complications, VicHealth chief executive Todd Harper says.
- - Police were forced to take cover as up to 100 drunken teenagers pelted them with rocks and bottles when they tried to break up a wild party.
- - Authorities say there was no danger in an operation to rescue a sick person from a luxury liner off Tasmania's East Coast yesterday afternoon.
- - Australian scientists have measured nerve signals being sent to the heart, in a breakthrough they hope will lead to better treatments for heart attacks.
- - The latest Australian soldier to die in Afghanistan has been farewelled in a solemn ceremony by his army colleagues.
- - Five more males have been charged over the massive brawl that erupted at a troubled Sydney housing estate this week.
- - Two Australian brothers have been killed by 100 tonnes of falling ice at New Zealand's Fox Glacier.
- - Supermarkets will be required to display and advertise the unit price of all packaged grocery items by the end of this year, under a federal government plan.
- - The father of a toddler killed in a dog attack in southern NSW says it was an accident.
- - About 220 workers look set to lose their jobs when the Shoobiz chain closes 43 shops across Australia in coming months.
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