Australia News latest RSS headlines - Australian Herald.comProvides the latest RSS feeds for Australia News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home pageLaw and the wives of others- June 29, 2008 It is a question that has been asked with increasing force in recent years. The debate in Australia about polygamous marriages for Muslims is simply the latest in a series of conflicts over how to ma...http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88f7d0d02bea1b33/id/15846733/ Feeling the heat on carbon- June 29, 2008 The plan, announced by the Howard government last year as a gesture towards addressing climate change, was to provide tax benefits for industries investing in new forests as an offset to their greenho...http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88f7d0d02bea1b33/id/15846732/ From Young Lib to Senate linchpin- June 29, 2008 The year was 1976 and, at 17, in his first year of law, he had clinched the job of running the campus newspaper, On Dit. Soon enough, the future powerbroking senator from South Australia would walk o...http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88f7d0d02bea1b33/id/15846731/ Tigers star critical after hit by tram- June 29, 2008 AFL club Richmond says the condition of key position player Graham Polak has improved after he was hit by a tram in Melbourne, but he remains in an induced coma.http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88f7d0d02bea1b33/id/15846729/ Weekend drink-driving blitz catches 128 on Gold Coast- June 29, 2008 Police have caught 128 people drink-driving and five drivers have tested positive for drugs, during a weekend traffic blitz on the Gold Coast. Over the past two nights, police officers involved in th...http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88f7d0d02bea1b33/id/15845910/ Aboriginal men to dispel notions they are brutal & uncaring- June 29, 2008 Hundreds of Aboriginal men will gather in the sandy desert of Central Australia to dispel notions they are &039;brutal and uncaring&039;. Since the federal intervention to combat child sex abuse was launched...http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88f7d0d02bea1b33/id/15844331/ Treasury looks to copy Australia and accelerate rights issues- June 29, 2008 UK Treasury officials are believed to support the adoption of an Australian-style rights issues model that would dramatically speed up the process and end the need for a company to issue a costly pros...http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88f7d0d02bea1b33/id/15843969/ Hobart CBD retailers doing it tough- June 29, 2008 Tasmania&039;s Premier David Bartlett is being urged to mount a population growth strategy to ensure the viability of the state&039;s retailers. The Council of Small Business says some retailers have already...http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88f7d0d02bea1b33/id/15845499/ Males killed in WA smash were related- June 29, 2008 West Australian police say four males killed in a car crash south of Perth last night were related. The four males, aged 11 to 17 years old were killed in the accident. A 17-year-old passenger surviv...http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88f7d0d02bea1b33/id/15845576/ Canberra clubs struggling in current economic climate- June 29, 2008 The troubled economic climate is affecting Canberra&039;s clubs with some saying they are on the verge of closing down. Clubs ACT&039;s chief executive Bob Samarcq says rising costs and tougher smoking laws ...http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88f7d0d02bea1b33/id/15845802/ |