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Floods hit North East Victoria
9:10 PM AEST | Water courses through parks, streets, gardens as rivers swell
Ballarat region floods: residents trapped, evacuated
5:50 PM AEST | SEVERAL towns across the Ballarat region have experienced flash flooding with many residents forced to evacuate.  | CommentsComments (4) | GALLERY: Ballarat region flooding: ...
Severe floods hit Creswick
4:07 PM AEST | CRESWICK has been hit by severe flooding with the main road completely under water and residents evacuated.  | GALLERY: Flooding at Creswick
7:00 AM AEST | The Socceroos have begun life under new coach Holger Osieck with an entertaining 0-0 friendly draw against an understrength Switzerland in St Gallen.
6:59 AM AEST | All power and aggression, Australian tennis ace Samantha Stosur has muscled her way into the US Open fourth round with her most impressive display yet in New York.
3:00 AM AEST | BOB WOOLMER'S wife has sought to silence the conspiracy theories spreading across the internet by insisting her husband was not murdered. Twitter and blogs have been abuzz this past week with suggestions the former Pakistan coach's sudden death during the 2007 World Cup was related to claims he was set to unravel a match-fixing racket within his own team.
3:00 AM AEST | EVERYONE with an opinion seems to feel the Swans would have a bigger advantage over Carlton if tomorrow's elimination final were at the SCG instead of ANZ Stadium. Even the Blues mentioned they would prefer meeting Sydney away from the tight SCG, but Sydney coach Paul Roos said yesterday if they were thinking that, ''I think they are thinking the wrong things.''
3:00 AM AEST | Injuries have reduced the Wallabies to a make-shift line-up. If all players were available, they would look a vastly different side. Greg Growden reports from Bloemfontein.
3:00 AM AEST | PLAYING rosters of all the Australian state sides will be ripped apart with the addition of two extra Twenty20 sides for the 2011-12 Big Bash.
3:00 AM AEST | As Brett Kirk prepares to play his last match in Sydney, he reveals the identity of the man who inspired him to greatness. Michael Cowley reports.
3:00 AM AEST | SONNY BILL WILLIAMS is no certainty of shoring up a place in the All Blacks squad just because he has made the commitment to play in New Zealand, says captain Richie McCaw.
3:00 AM AEST | MARK BRIDGE doesn't care much for pressure. Never has, and probably never will. That's why he's the only player to have scored in two A-League grand finals. Both times he was on the winning side.
3:00 AM AEST | PLAYERS from the round-24 game between North Queensland and Canterbury, which was the subject of a highly unusual betting plunge, will likely be interviewed by police in the coming weeks.
3:00 AM AEST | THE state was bracing for wild weather last night, as a belt of storms swept east across the continent bringing floods and lightning strikes.
3:00 AM AEST | INSURANCE company policy is discouraging young drivers from driving safer cars. Despite calls from road safety experts to get P-platers behind the wheel of the latest model cars, insurance companies are charging big money to cover new drivers.
3:00 AM AEST | A DAY after the state government pledged to be open and transparent about the performance of the health system, leaked documents show hospitals in Sydney's west have fallen far short of recommended treatment times during winter.
3:00 AM AEST | AN INTELLECTUALLY disabled woman is suing the Department of Community Services, saying it imprisoned her in a residential centre for the disabled.
3:00 AM AEST | THE High Court has upheld a six-figure payout to a former flight attendant exposed to toxic aircraft fumes while pregnant, ending a 10-year legal saga.
3:00 AM AEST | A WINDING ribbon of native bushland and remnant rainforest clings to the steep banks of Wolli Creek in Sydney's south, a stone's throw from the mouth of the M5 tunnel.
3:00 AM AEST | JULIA GILLARD'S ''citizen's assembly'' and Tony Abbott's ''green army'' are both on shaky ground, but the public still has a chance to contribute to Australia's response to climate change.
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