Archive for May, 2009

Mum left at morgue for seven years

A CORONER orders a family to bury a woman whose body has lain in the morgue since 2002.

AFL player contests second ‘assault’

Brisbane Lions AFL player Albert Proud will contest allegations he pushed and shoved a woman during a night out at a Gold Coast club.

Company profits down 7.2pc

COMPANY gross operating profits, in current prices, fell 7.2 per cent in the March quarter, seasonally adjusted, and were up 6.9 per cent over the year, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said today.

Rudd a ‘psycho chook’, says Joyce

BARNABY Joyce reckons Kevin Rudd is a “psycho chook” with peculiar habits, while Mark Arbib admits the Prime Minister is no Mother Teresa.

Police ‘ramrodded’ Indian protesters

AN Indian protester at last night’s blockade of Melbourne’s city streets has accused the police of “ramrodding” protesters to break up their sit-in.