National News

Having a baby? Don’t call it God

IF you’re about to have a baby here are a few names you can cross of your list straight away — they’re banned in Australia.

Reef chaos with another dead

ANOTHER tourist has died while swimming on the Great Barrier Reef. And Foreign visitors are fearing the worst.

Sordid new pictures of Atkins

EXCLUSIVE: New details of Michael Atkins’ sex life with young men as cops consider his immunity deal over Matthew Leveson.

Fraser blamed for migrant ‘mistake’

PETER Dutton said Australia is now paying for mistakes made by former prime minister Malcolm Fraser’s government that let certain people in.

Lambie fires up over veterans’ charity

YOU’D think Senator Jacqui Lambie would be impressed by a charity supporting current and former servicemen and women. But that wasn't so today ...

New South Wales

Daily Telegraph

Street shutdown Six critically hurt in Melbourne bank fire attack

SIX people are in a critical condition while several others have been taken to hospital after a fire at a Commonwealth Bank branch in Melbourne’s southeast.

Media scrum Bloody hell! TV journo attacked

THE estranged wife of Tarik Assaad — who is the brother of gangland murder victim Hamad Assaad — lashed out at Sky News reporter Amy Greenbank outside Bankstown Court today, after Assaad was refused bail on firearm charges.

Exclusive Some dole recipients used medical loophole to avoid getting work

DOLE recipients have been accused of exploiting a medical loophole to avoid having to get a job by claiming they are too sick to work.

South Australia

The Advertiser

Truck drivers brakes failed at Bedford Park today . Pictures: Ten News

Bedford Park Why truckie deliberately crashed his truck

IMAGES: POLICE have praised the quick thinking actions of a truck driver who managed to wrangle his out-of-control vehicle off the road, preventing a serious crash.

River Murray Murray will close without extra flows — experts

THE mouth of the River Murray is at risk of closing if additional water promised in the Murray Darling Basin plan is not returned, experts warn.

Fatal smash Teen to admit role in fiery fatal South Rd crash

THE second of two teenagers charged over the fiery road crash that killed mother of two Nicole Tucker will confess his role in the tragedy and plead guilty, a court has heard.

Victoria

Herald Sun

Suburban horror CCTV clue as bank fireball injures 27

A SUBURBAN bank branch in Melbourne erupted in a fire blast today after a man used fuel to set himself alight in the bank, injuring 27 people.

Critical condition Man hands himself in after hit-run

A MAN has handed himself in to police after a hit-run collision in West Melbourne that left a teenager fighting for life this morning.

Street shutdown Springvale bank fire injures 27

A SUBURBAN bank branch in Melbourne erupted in a fire blast today after a man used fuel to set himself alight in the bank, injuring 27 people.

Queensland

Courier Mail

Sex claims ’I didn’t know one neighbourhood kid from another’

A RETIRED criminologist has told a Brisbane court he did not even know a girl who claims to have been a victim of sex games by him in the ’70s.

Moreton Bay Island residents urged to flee bushfire

RESIDENTS have been urged to leave their homes on Macleay Island off Brisbane as firefighters struggle to control a bush blaze. Pic: Twitter/ABC

Aerial search Pilot in critical condition

UPDATE: The pilot of a chopper who crashed 25 nautical miles west of the Daintree in the state’s far north has been flown to Cairns Base Hospital in a critical condition.

Western Australia

PerthNow

Patrick Slater Boys in train station murder case to face adult court

THREE boys charged with murdering Patrick Slater at Elizabeth Quay train station will be tried in the WA Supreme Court with their five adult co-accused.

Outback idea National park proposal for unused WA land

The Earth's crust is suddenly cleaved - one of the gorges in Karijini National Park.

A MAJOR parks network in Western Australia would create more than 200 Indigenous ranger jobs and unique tourism opportunities, proponents say.

One Nation Culleton may attend High Court hearing

WPOUT One Nation senator Rod Culleton leaves the Magistrates Court. Picture; Michael O'Brien The West Australian

ONE Nation senator Rod Culleton may attend his High Court hearing in Canberra next week after previously saying it would have to be adjourned because parliament is sitting.

NORTHERN TERRITORY

NT News

Rushed to hospital Man suffers electric shock at Coles

A NINETEEN-year-old male was rushed to hospital after he received an electric shock at Coles supermarket in Palmerston

Revenge attack Bikie to live on bail with prison guard relative

ALLEGED bikie associate Nicholas Wise has been granted bail to live with his prison officer sister-in-law in South Australia after his parents posted a guarantee of more than $1 million.