(AAP) - East coast borrowers are still hungry for new homes despite recent interest rate rises and the roll back of the first home buyers scheme, a survey shows.

(AAP) - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says Australia's health system won't be fixed overnight, even though most states have now endorsed his reform plan.

When Roosters coach Brian Smith named Shaun Kenny-Dowall in the centres in round
one, opposition teams across the NRL would have seen that as a weakness to be
exploited.

West Coast coach John Worsfold has scoffed at talk Quinten Lynch is being overlooked
for selection because of his rumoured agreement with incoming AFL franchise Gold
Coast.

Uranium miner Energy Resources of Australia Ltd (ERA) says higher capital
expenditure and a weaker US dollar will dent earnings in calendar 2010.

More than a million Australians have chosen not to enrol to vote in the upcoming
federal election.
The use of electoral roll information by third parties is believed to have

Kevin Rudd's hospitals reform plan could end up being a victim of its own success.
Health experts argue this is because so much money will be pumped into hospitals at

A sex offender has been jailed for seducing a 14-year-old girl he met online and
photographing other girls in erotic poses while promising them an entree to
modelling work.

The coalition is turning to street tactics to take advantage of voters'
dissatisfaction with the Rudd government over an influx of asylum seekers.

Stephanie Gilmore may have lost focus after becoming too comfortable dominating the
world surfing tour for the past three years, says Layne Beachley.