Northern Territory

National Breaking News

Tuesday, 17 December

Dept defends health panel sacking

Tue Dec 17 09:38:22 EST 2013 THE immigration department has defended its decision to sack a panel of experts providing advice on asylum seeker health issues.

Stop shifting blame, Shorten tells govt

Tue Dec 17 09:31:03 EST 2013 THE federal government will blame Labor's spending spree for a forecast deficit blowout when it releases the mid-year budget update.

Kew Liberal MP to resign at end of term

Tue Dec 17 09:17:21 EST 2013 MEMBER for Kew Andrew McIntosh will not contest the 2014 Victorian state election.

Katter, Palmer parties talk on Qld poll

Tue Dec 17 09:00:25 EST 2013 THE Katter party says it won't be running candidates against the Palmer party at the next Qld election and the two forces want to help each other.

Shooting rocks Sydney's 'quiet' inner-west

Tue Dec 17 08:48:13 EST 2013 A MAN has been gunned down at the front door of his home in Sydney's inner-west, shocking residents who thought gun crime was a western Sydney problem.

No sign of pair on downed Tiger Moth

Tue Dec 17 08:35:20 EST 2013 THERE'S no sign of a pilot and passenger after a Tiger Moth bi-plane crashed into the sea off Queensland's South Stradbroke Island.

Protesters, cops clash over Vic road link

Tue Dec 17 08:08:17 EST 2013 POLICE and protesters have clashed at a drilling site for Melbourne's East West Link road project.

Man dies after being hit by forklift

Tue Dec 17 07:09:16 EST 2013 A MAN has died after being hit by a forklift while working on a farm in the south-west NSW town of Griffith on Monday.

Man attacks teen in south coast robbery

Tue Dec 17 05:42:23 EST 2013 A 16-YEAR-OLD was hit over the head and then punched when a man robbed a store in Albion Park, south of Wollongong.

Police investigating Seymour death

Tue Dec 17 03:29:20 EST 2013 A MAN who was pulled unconscious from a river in Seymour at the weekend died in hospital on Monday.

Armed robbery at Brisbane takeaway store

Tue Dec 17 03:29:19 EST 2013 BRISBANE detectives are investigating the armed robbery of a takeaway store in the city's north on Monday night.

Woman dies in Coolum crash

Tue Dec 17 01:37:21 EST 2013 A 75-YEAR-OLD woman has died after two vehicles collided on the Sunshine Motorway near Coolum on Monday night.