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Bid to stub out tobacco donations

4:00 AM | POLITICAL parties would be banned from accepting donations from tobacco companies under government legislation to be introduced to State Parliament this year.

News - General

Aussies reign as India flops

4:00 AM | MELBOURNE _ Top one-day team Australia rallied from a shaky start to dominate India in their rain-shortened match at the MCG.

Sport - Cricket

4:00 AM | DUBAI _ Azhar Ali continued to frustrate England with a career-best hundred despite left-arm spinner Monty Panesar grabbing three wickets in the session before tea in the third and final Test at Dubai Stadium in Dubai last night (Tastime).

Sport - Cricket

Spot Nine toughs it out

4:00 AM | IT TOOK tough horses to win in wild, wet and windy conditions at Mowbray last night, and there was none tougher than Spot Nine.

Sport - Horse Racing

PM gives Caucus a blast on leadership

4:00 AM | CANBERRA _ Prime Minister Julia Gillard has read the riot act to her caucus team in a bid to hose down leadership speculation, saying people did not join the Labor Party to ``help the Liberals''.

News - General

Town's residents told to flee floods

4:00 AM | The gravity of south-west Queensland's floods is sinking in, with residents of a whole town being forced to evacuate and the discovery of a body swept away two days ago.

News - Weather

Waverley woman treated after kitchen fire

4:00 AM | A 49-YEAR-OLD Waverley woman was taken to the Launceston General Hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation after a kitchen fire yesterday.

News - General

Award-winning film-makers die in chopper crash

4:00 AM | SYDNEY_ An award-winning American cinematographer and the Australian writer-producer of one of 2011's top-grossing Australian films have died in a fiery helicopter crash on the New South Wales south coast.

News - General

45-year passion is still flourishing

4:00 AM | A SHOEBOX full of bulbs was all it took to ignite Charlie Smith's love for flowers.

News - General

Tram ride can make tourism 'difference'

4:00 AM | PASSION and fact are behind the drive to see a Launceston heritage tram ride. The idea has been reignited by the focus on Launceston's tourism industry.

News - General

Festival draws people from far and wide

4:00 AM | FESTIVAL goers from as far as Japan and Belgium were among those who flocked to the Jackeys Marsh Forest Festival over the weekend.

News - Entertainment

Woods and Jackson land boxing golds

4:00 AM | TOP Tasmanian boxers Luke Jackson and Jackson Woods are one step closer to Olympics selection after winning gold at the Australian amateur boxing championships in Hobart yesterday.

Sport - Boxing

Ex-forestry workers branch out

4:00 AM | EX-FORESTRY workers are struggling to find other work, the latest figures show. More than 330 people who have lost forestry jobs have contacted ForestWorks for assistance since September.

News - Business

Two robberies at same service station

4:00 AM | DETECTIVES are investigating two separate armed robberies at the same Glenorchy Caltex service station within six hours over the weekend.

News - General

Expertise in beer and wine on tap in Festivale program

4:00 AM | WANT to learn more about beer and wine?

News - General

Jets shoot down Sydney in seven-goal thriller

4:00 AM | SYDNEY _ The announcement of Vitezslav Lavicka's imminent departure from Sydney FC failed to inspire the Sky Blues as they crashed to a 5-2 A-League defeat at home to Newcastle last night.

Sport - Football - Soccer

National duty keeps Tigers away

4:00 AM | BEN HILFENHAUS'S Cricket Australia enforced rest will continue into today's Sheffield Shield clash with New South Wales as Tasmania returns to red ball duty at Bellerive Oval.

Sport - Cricket

Swan warns banks to pass rate cut

4:00 AM | Australia's big banks are hugely profitable and their customers would be very angry if they failed to pass on an interest rate cut in full, Treasurer Wayne Swan says.

News - Business

Cyclists in less than 5% of crashes

4:00 AM | JUST under 5 per cent of casualty crashes in Tasmania between 2004 and 2009 involved cyclists.

News - General

`No easy choices' in energy debate

4:00 AM | Once Labor's carbon tax kicks in governments will need to decide how to best provide extra support for low-emissions technologies, including nuclear energy and carbon capture and storage, a Melbourne-based group says.

News - Environment