Exorcising The Children When The Washing Machine Goes Walkabout

I AM ashamed to say that our only link with the hereafter is a haunted washing machine. Naturally, our plutocrat neighbors have the very latest in technology - bleeding walls, interdimensional vortexes - but we're traditionalists, aka poor. If our kids want to paddle in an interdimensional vortex, t

Call For Independent Probe On Police Killing

Civil libertarians have called for an independent investigation into Wednesday night's fatal police shooting in Melbourne's north-west after it was revealed that police failed to call in a psychiatric team during the 30-minute stand-off. Neighbors yesterday said that Mark Cornish, 27, who was sho

Tears Of Joy For Italy

SYDNEY These were not the pantomime smiles synchronised swimmers are accustomed to wearing, but genuine tears of relief. The swimmers from team Italia yesterday lost all sense of poolside decorum and celebrated after beating their European neighbors, Spain, to the eighth and final Olympic spot at