Latest News from Australia NEWS.com.au | National Breaking News The National News from NEWS.com.au Fire put out at Parliament House FIRE brigade officers have extinguished a small fire inside an electrical cabinet at Parliament House in Canberra. Farmers want pipeline shut off THE Victorian Farmers Federation wants the controversial north-south pipeline to be switched off once the state's floodwaters subside. Tourist in hospital after school attack A 20-year-old German tourist is in a north Queensland hospital after a violent sexual assault that caused the closure of a Cairns school. Feral goats had better watch out A PLAN to control feral goats throughout New South Wales is to be developed over the next two years. Floods won't help locust threat to farms FLOODING in Victoria's north has done little to ease the threat of locusts destroying crops this Spring. Man charged over cold case rape POLICE have charged a man with the rape and torture of a woman a decade ago. Criminals to benefit from guilty pleas CRIMINALS who plead guilty soon after their arrest could get a 40 per cent discount on any jail sentence under new proposals. Man pleads guilty over boy's death A MAN has pleaded guilty in a court over the death of a boy whose body was found in grass by the side of a road in March. Policewomen on traffic duty hit by car TWO police officers have been struck by a car as they went to direct traffic after a road accident in Sydney's west. Islands to get wilderness protection THE Nuyts Archipelago and the Investigator Group of Islands off South Australia will be named wilderness protection areas.

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