Melbourne coach Dean Bailey has demanded his players match Geelong's renowned
physical pressure in their AFL match at Skilled Stadium.

Cronulla second-rower Grant Millington has revealed the Sharks have been planning
ways to negate Manly's Anthony Watmough ahead of Saturday's NRL clash at Toyota
Park.

Australia should brace itself for more fatalities during the current swine flu
pandemic, federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon has warned.

Trade official Craig Senger is among two Australians feared to have been killed in
bomb blasts that rocked two Jakarta hotels on Friday, claiming at least eight lives.

Prosecutors have called on an Indonesian court to jail an Australian man caught
using drugs on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali.

A new trans-Tasman superannuation deal between Australia and New Zealand brings a
seamless market economy between the two countries one step closer, Treasurer Wayne
Swan says.

Former Queensland government minister Gordon Nuttall is due to be sentenced on
Thursday after being found guilty of corruption.

The survival of British backpacker Jamie Neale after 12 days lost in the Blue
Mountains is an incredible story but there's nothing to suggest it's a hoax, the

Military and political leaders have joined family and mates to farewell one of
Australia's last few Victoria Cross recipients, Ted Kenna.

Five more deaths in Sydney - including a nine-year-old boy and a 78-year-old man -
have raised the national death toll of victims with swine flu to 29.