A 22-year-old Indian national has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a 20-year
minimum term for the stabbing murders of two Indian brothers over a rental bond

Another Australian man could be facing an Indonesian firing squad after his arrested
at Bali airport with an alleged 1.7kg of the drug ice in his luggage.

Victorian Premier John Brumby ran up a $50,000 bill during a trip to the Middle East
and China in a quarter in which ministers splashed out $110,000 on travel.

Queensland seized a record $5.5 million of crime assets last financial year as well
as $4.5 million worth of drugs, the state's corruption watchdog reports.

Independent MP Andrew Wilkie has launched a savage attack on Australia's Afghan war,
calling it "a great lie" peddled by both sides of politics.

Australians and Indonesians will gather on Friday to mark the fifth anniversary of
the 2005 Bali terrorist bombings.

Australian Greens leader Bob Brown has kept his promise to introduce legislation to
parliament allowing the NT and the ACT to make laws around voluntary euthanasia.

Australia has paused to remember the almost 750 police officers who have died on the
job since 1803, and thanked those who still risk their lives every day.

An army truck believed to be carrying explosives in a defence force convoy has
erupted into a fireball after a crash in Central Queensland.

Spatters of blood were found aboard a partly sunken boat belonging to medical
specialist Bob Chappell, who was last seen working on the vessel, a Hobart court has
been told.