Around 1000 litres of diesel has leaked from a storage tank at a rail yard in a northernAdelaide suburb.
South Australian Police say the leak occurred this evening at the Dry Creek rail yard.
Police say the …
A man who was infatuated with his neighbour and tried to hire a hitman to kill herdefacto, has been given a suspended jail term.
SHANE BRADLEY ALVIN, aged 32, of Ipswich, pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court in Brisbaneto procuring an attempted murder between November 2 and 11 last year.
Justice BRIAN AMBROSE says ALVIN was out of touch with reality and had developed aromantic fantasy about his next door neighbour -- who knew nothing of his feelings.
Justice AMBROSE says ALVIN, who's illiterate and has psychological problems, couldn'tdistinguish between reality and fantasy.
Justice AMBROSE sentenced ALVIN to five years jail -- wholly suspended -- and has advisedhe needs guidance and counselling.
ALVIN has already served 260 days in jail on remand.
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Finance Minister NICK MINCHIN has denied that a bungle over Commonwealth banking arrangementshas cost taxpayers $150 million.
He's admitted that an auditor-general's report has identified shortcomings in the implementationof arrangements to make federal departments do their own banking.
But he says those shortcomings have not cost taxpayers $150 million and there willbe no cost in the future to taxpayers.
Senator MINCHIN says that's why the auditor-general has not made any recommendationthat the scheme should be stopped.
He says teething problems with the scheme have already been fixed and he says Laboris just beating it up.
Labor finance spokesman STEPHEN CONROY earlier said the bungle was a disaster.
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KEYWORD: BANKING MINCHIN (CANBERRA)
DARWIN - Afghani asylum seekers won't be receiving an Australian government refundfor money they had paid to people smugglers, Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock saidtoday. (Afghan Ruddock amount. Nightlead to come.)
TOWNSVILLE - A British tourist in Queensland has become the first person in the worldto die after being stung by the tiny Irukandji jellyfish. (Jellyfish. N/L, Backgrounder,Factbox to come.)
CANBERRA - Defence Minister Robert Hill pitched for increased Budget funding for thedefence forces today, saying the September 11 terrorist attacks had brought unforeseenexpenses for Australia. (Budget Hill)
NEW YORK - Prime Minister John Howard has enlisted the help of some of the world'smost powerful business leaders in Australia's campaign for a free trade pact with theUnited States. (US Howard)
SYDNEY - A baby boy is being given a second chance at life after being flown 9,000km from Bali to Sydney overnight for life-saving surgery. (Baby Nightlead)
SYDNEY - Doctors today urged the federal government to review its mandatory detentionof asylum seekers, claiming it was harmful to their physical and mental health. (WoomeraDoctors. N/L to come, taking in Curtin.)
MELBOURNE - In what is believed to be a Victorian legal first a divorced father-of-twoaccused of helping his gay HIV-positive lover to die has pleaded guilty to assisting asuicide. (HOOD to come)
MELBOURNE - A Melbourne man has been ordered to stand trial for manslaughter afterthe van he was towing up hill broke free and killed and 80-year-old grandmother. (SOUTHWELLto come)
SYDNEY - Rodney Adler's FAI Insurance concealed details of how it used reinsurancecontracts to inflate its earnings from industry regulators, the HIH royal commission wastold today. (HIH. N/L to come.)
SYDNEY - A new exchange is set to make an appearance in Australia by the end of thefirst quarter of 2002, offering three different types of investment products. (Exchange)
MELBOURNE - Greg Norman made the sort of charge he hasn't produced in years today,shooting a five-under par 67 to be eight under after 36 holes of the Heineken Classicat Royal Melbourne. (GOLF AUST. N/L to come.)
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