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Black Friday: Panic grips global markets

11/10/2008 | Panic has gripped world sharemarkets amid the prospect of a prolonged global recession, with no end in sight to a rout that is threatening to eclipse that of 1987. | Livestock markets boosted by A$ | Black Friday on the sharemarket

Rudd forced to guarantee bank savings

11/10/2008 | Kevin Rudd has been forced to reassure consumers that their bank savings are sound as the Opposition demanded the Government underwrite every account containing up to $100,000 in case a bank collapses. | Black Friday on the sharemarket | Aust wool market 0.9pc higher

Lower Lakes almost mission impossible: Senate

11/10/2008 | The Murray-Darling is so starved of water that it may not be possible to save South Australia's parched Coorong wetlands and lower lakes, says a Senate committee report. | Obama vs McCain on their plans ... | Rising cost of food rates high ...

Rivers need good luck, good management

Livestock markets boosted by A$

Russian market the future for Australian beef

Aust wool market 0.9pc higher

Rising cost of food rates high on list of consumer concerns

Obama vs McCain on their plans for ag

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Multimedia

VIDEO: Renowned Steam Plains dispersal draws $97.75 for ewes

9/10/2008 | March-shorn Merino ewes made to $97.75 a head for three year olds, and to $90 a head for the two-year-old group during near $970,000 on-property dispersal of the renowned Steam Plains near Carrathool, NSW, Wednesday.

VIDEO: Qld steeled for bumper winter harvest

VIDEO: NSW riders dominate national cutting futurity

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State News

Bligh targets farmers in new reef protections

9/10/2008 | Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has signalled tougher regulation of farm practices may be needed to end run-off damage to the Great Barrier Reef.

NQ to drive new look Blueprint for the Bush

9/10/2008 | The Blueprint for the Bush is set for an overhaul when the Queensland Government and Blueprint partner AgForce meet to thrash out ways to refine and refocus this planning initiative for rural and regional Queensland.

$6555 average for 877 bulls at Brahman Week

US crisis could benefit NQ property

North West proves its cropping potential

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Burke Shire going green

North Queensland’s Burke Shire is implementing some practical means of reducing the amount of ...

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Good Life

When cancer calls
Lynne Minion talks to survivors.

News Extra

In the front line
One man's time on the West Bank.

News Extra

So bad, it's good
The world of Kevin Bloody Wilson.

Habitat

Forest action plan
Fight to save our natural assets.

Metro & Regional

Cancer victim paying steep price for time

12:23 AM AEST | BREAST cancer sufferer Kay Fleischfresser is determined to live to see her grandchildren grow - so determined that she has mortgaged her home to finance an experimental treatment.

A brave smile after a tough start

Model behaviour for a good cause

Ban 'sexy' ads, say Catholics

Mother's hell as daughter charged with sister's killing

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World News

Nightmare that ended in a quiet inlet

12:00 AM AEST | IT WAS a tragedy compounded by distance, obfuscation and devastating error. For two weeks, Britt Lapthorne's family's fears intensified as a nation's fascination grew with the compelling story of one of its young lost in a distant land.

United we stand

Obama soars ahead of McCain in poll

Rudd must decide on Afghan commitment

Downer avoids traps of his new brief

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Blogs

World turns true believers upside down

6/10/2008 | In journalism there is nothing worse than interviewing someone with TB - True Believerism. But the rapidly changing world is turning traditional ideology upside down, leaving TB sufferers supporting a brand and not a belief.

Reinventing rural

Agri-culture and agri-business