BHP Billiton is confident world steel production will exceed one billion tonnes in 2004/05 with Chinese growth remaining strong.
The NRL Parramatta Eels have signed former Queensland Origin hooker PJ Marsh for two years, despite uncertainty over his fitness.
The federal government has announced plans to boost the number of Medicare offices across the nation by seven.
At least two armed bank robbers have escaped an apparent hostage situation at a bank on Sydney's north shore.
A former ALP official has been found guilty of employing child prostitutes at his brothel in Wollongong, south of Sydney.
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