Firm tests waters over Cubbie flow deal
5:47 AM AEST | THE company favoured to buy Cubbie Station has offered to sell the government 92 billion litres of water for the Murray-Darling basin, in part from the controversial Queensland cotton farm.  | Cubbie Station to be sold by ...Visit Queensland Country Life | Dampened enthusiasm for Cubbie ...Visit Queensland Country Life | GALLERY: Photos from the Mt Gambier ...
Southern states rejoice over share of record floodwaters
5:56 AM AEST | EVIDENCE is mounting that floods gushing through northern Australia are among the biggest on record, and downstream states such as Victoria are rapidly raising expectations about the amount of water they will receive from them.  | Victoria to benefit from floodsVisit Stock & Land | Feds must step in to manage ...Visit Stock & Land | VIDEO: Strath steers to $2.10/kg
Solar scheme powers on as batts bow out
5:44 AM AEST | KEVIN RUDD'S roof insulation program may have sent the nation temporarily batty, but the state government's solar power bonus scheme is shaping up as a big success.  | Energy target latest green ... | Labor's renewable energy scheme ... | VIDEO: Strath steers to $2.10/kg

STATE NEWS

Farm forestry nest eggs take on golden hue
NORTH Queensland landholders who over the past two decades planted farm forestry plantations as nest eggs for the future will welcome the results of a State Government investigation into the value of  | Queensland money is growing on ...
Big appetite for rubbish
YOU may have seen the dinosaur feet rubbish bins in towns out west - well, now there's a new novelty bin on the block.  | NQ water projects committed to ... | School of the Air celebrates 50 ...
Death of Ului
Tropical Cyclone Ului crossed the east coast of Queensland in the early hours of yesterday ...  | Cyclone Ului to head south ... | Tropical Cyclone Ului on the ...

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3:00 AM AEST | THOUSANDS of new houses will be delayed from coming onto the market, and will cost up to $3000 more, because of a sudden decision by Telstra to stop installing copper phone lines, large developers warn.

WORLD NEWS

A TEENAGE daughter of Osama bin Laden has been allowed to fly out of Iran, where she had taken refuge in Saudi Arabia's embassy, a Saudi-financed newspaper has reported.
The case for investing in agricultural research and development
NATIONAL Farmers' Federation chief executive officer Ben Fargher has challenged the government to expand its probe into rural R&D. Here is his address to the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology national conference.
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