National News
8:53 AM AEST | Flood mapping has predicted at least 20 homes in the Wimmera area could be inundated with flood waters early today.
8:42 AM AEST | The three rural independents - whose backing will decide Australia's government - have scheduled a press conference for 2pm today. This should finally reveal to the nation whether Labor or the Liberal-Nationals will form the next minority government.
3:00 AM AEST | British mag Essentials has upset the gossip equilibrium by announcing that it is publishing its entire October edition without a single model or celebrity.
3:00 AM AEST | The Man Booker Prize shortlist will be announced today, and, yes, Martin Amis will still not be on it, his absence being something of an annual sideshow. However, Peter Carey's Parrot and Olivier in America is expected to stay in the running for the - hold on, dear reader, the mandatory Booker adjective coming up like a speed bump - prestigious award.
3:00 AM AEST | New tertiary courses are expected to boost the number and skills of building surveyors.
3:00 AM AEST | Except in rural areas, council building surveyors will not be able to certify their own council's building projects, to avoid pressure from management for quick and easy approvals.
3:00 AM AEST | Tony Crook is not shy about asserting the interests of his patch of turf, even at the expense of his party.
3:00 AM AEST | The newly powerful Greens leader, Bob Brown, has demanded to know why key ABC television news programs failed to cover his party during the federal election campaign.
3:00 AM AEST | When the independents decide who to support the numbers could break in one of four ways.
3:00 AM AEST | There might not be an official government in office yet, but the business of government goes on.
3:00 AM AEST | Michael Blackburn twists the top off a midday longneck and with a flick of his finger sends it spinning off an improbable distance into the Hastings River.
3:00 AM AEST | Whoever gets the nod from the three independent MPs to form a minority government will be vulnerable to any unexpected departures, spectacular dummy spits, acts of God or other conniptions inside their own ranks during the next Parliament.
3:00 AM AEST | Independent MPs would have greater flexibility to miss a vote in the House of Representatives and not be penalised under changes agreed to yesterday for proposed parliamentary reforms.
3:00 AM AEST | Regional Victoria is braced for more flooding today after communities were placed on high alert and emergency service workers geared up to provide aid in Shepparton and Horsham.
3:00 AM AEST | A company was paid $34 million for water licences that were only good after floods, write Deborah Snow and Debra Jopson.
3:00 AM AEST | Leading farming groups warn that Australia's multibillion-dollar water market is ripe for fraud or embezzlement because governments have failed to regulate water brokers.
3:00 AM AEST | A backlash is developing against state government plans to slash off-peak ferry services to the inner Sydney Harbour.
3:00 AM AEST | The state government has been accused of short-changing schools by up to $162 million under the cover of the federal government's education stimulus package.
3:00 AM AEST | Federal laws on people smuggling will force judges to send 216 Indonesian crewmen in immigration detention in Australia to jail for a total of at least 648 years.
3:00 AM AEST | The future of the controversial pilot of ethics classes in NSW schools is in the hands of an independent evaluator who will deliver her verdict this month.
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