2014-12-29 Australia More Top Stories

The Australian   

#BREAKING AirAsia Flight #QZ8501 likely 'at bottom of sea': Indonesia search ...   
The Australian
1.39pm: A distraught relative whose two siblings were on missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501 has. said he was upset to hear an airline official say he joined in their “sadness”. “What he said was not appropriate at all. If they were sad it means there's death. But the ...

2014-12-29 Australia Health

The Age   

Gag-inducing milk part of new raw bath milk laws in Victoria   
ABC Online
In response to the death of one child and hospitalisation of several others, the Victorian government will introduce laws to make raw 'bath' milk undrinkable. Media player: "Space" to play, "M" to mute, "left" and "right" to seek.
Child's death forces new Australian milk safety laws   GlobalPost
Dairy farmers will be forced to make raw milk unpalatable under tough new laws   Daily Mail
Victoria launches crackdown on sale of 'raw' unpasteurised milk   The Guardian
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Inquiry reveals disturbing trend as self-harm cases increase   
Northern Rivers Echo
It is a tragic issue that weighs on the minds of children and teenagers, their families and all those who try to help in the biggest and smallest communities of the nation. Evidence gathered in a year-long examination of the issue by National Children's ...

2014-12-29 Australia Science

Canberra engineer Jacque Comery to lead Australian Antarctic Division team on ...   
Sydney Morning Herald
Environmental engineer Jacque Comery will swap her hard hat and high-vis vest for layers of thermals when she takes a year off work to lead the Australian Antarctic Division's Macquarie Island expedition. Temperatures during her 12-month stint at the harsh, ...

2014-12-29 Australia Sports

The Australian   

Australia v India: Day four review from the MCG   
The Australian
AUSTRALIA has opened up aggressively after quickly rolling up the India tail on the fourth morning of the Boxing Day Test at the MCG. At drinks the hosts were 0-48 with Dave Warner on 38 (30 balls, six fours) and Chris Rogers on nine (31 balls). Australia ...

2014-12-29 Australia Entertainment

Sydney Morning Herald   

Sydney Festival founding director Stephen Hall dies   
Sydney Morning Herald
Australia has lost one of its leading cultural figures with the death of Stephen Hall, the founding director of the Sydney Festival. Hall, who led the festival for 18 years and earned the moniker "Festival Hall", died on Christmas Eve at his home in the Blue ...

2014-12-29 Australia Technology

NDTV   

PlayStation Network back online   
The Australian
SONY brought its PlayStation Network back online yesterday, laying the blame on external attackers for triggering an outage that lasted nearly three days. The Japanese video game company hadn't previously explained what caused the disruption on ...

2014-12-29 Australia Business

Sky News Australia   

Programmed Maintenance Services makes play for Skilled Group   
Sydney Morning Herald
Labour hire firm Skilled Group has said a merger offer from rival Programmed Maintenance Services is "opportunistic" despite Programmed's claim the deal would create $20 million of synergies and deliver $150 million of value to shareholders in both ...

2014-12-29 Australia Australia

Sydney Morning Herald   

Car crashes through fence, over cliff at Burrows Park in Clovelly   
Sydney Morning Herald
A car has crashed through a fence and plunged 30 metres off a cliff in Clovelly in Sydney's east, police say. Do you know more? Email us, message us on Twitter @smh. A witness who phoned triple-0 said they could hear the driver crying out for help about ...

2014-12-29 Australia World

Sky News Australia   

AirAsia plane 'likely at bottom of the sea'   
Sky News Australia
The missing AirAsia passenger plane 'is likely at the bottom of the sea', the chief of Indonesia's search effort has said. Bambang Soelistyo added that an initial investigation into the disappearance of Flight QZ8501 had revealed that the 'estimated crash ...