User:AUPOM/News
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- May 21: Former Labor minister for Aboriginal affairs, Milton Orkopoulos, has been sentenced to nine years and three months in gaol, following charges of child sexual abuse.
- May 17: NSW rugby league player, Jack Rayner, has passed away, at the age of 87.
- May 16: Three members of the French winning side in the 1998 FIFA World Cup, Zinedine Zidane, Marcel Desailly and Robert Pires, have announced they will play in an exhibition match at the Sydney Football Stadium on June 1, against the 1998 Australian side.
Portal:Victoria/News
- Jan 17: Alliance Resources announces that it will begin a uranium mining trial at the Four Mile uranium project near Arkaroola by the middle of the year, which could make South Australia home to four of Australia's five uranium mines.
- Jan 14: A fall in university and TAFE applications for 2008, with young South Australians opting for unskilled positions instead, raises warnings that the state's greatest problem over the next decade could be an under-educated workforce.
- Dec 24: A Darwin bus driver was found dead at a bus depot in Alice Springs, and an inquiry into his death was launched.
- Dec 24: Statistics have shown that the Northern Territory has the highest drowning rate in Australia, with 60 per cent of the deaths occuring in remote areas.
- Dec 26: Reports claim Queenslanders are the highest producers of greenhouse gases in the world, emitting 38.9 tonnes per person every year.
- Dec 22: Queensland Health say they will review any new application for employment from Mohamed Haneef at Gold Coast Hospital (pictured), where he worked prior to his visa being cancelled.
- Jan 11: The Airbus 3-19 has departed Hobart and arrived at Antarctica, making it the first successful plane flight to Antarctica in history.
- Dec 29: The price of electricity will rise significantly in the new year, greatly disadvantaging hotels and restaurants, and in turn incurring higher goods and services costs for households.
- 29 May - $10 billion plan unveiled to build and develop six islands off Fremantle's North Quay. Read more...
- 8 May - State government releases the 2008 budget. Read more...
- 29 April - Perth records its wettest April since records began in 1876. Read more...
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