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Four of six escaped asylum seekers recaptured

Northern Territory Police are still searching for two asylum seekers who escaped from the care of the Immigration Department in Darwin yesterday.
ABC - May 22, 4:54 pm
Aged care needs more beds, funds: Cosgrove

Leading Age Services Australia says the over-65 population is set to double to six million and more funding is needed.
May 22, 4:48 pm
Aust bonds prices weaker

Australian bond futures are softer ahead of a speech by US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke.
May 22, 4:47 pm
Essendon's Nathan Lovett-Murray released from hospital after being stabbed during domestic dispute

Essendon midfielder Nathan Lovett-Murray has been released from hospital after being treated for non life-threatening injuries following a domestic dispute in Melbourne's northern suburbs last night.
ABC - May 22, 4:46 pm
Comedians enlisted to spread key sexual health messages with dirty jokes

A new sexual health project will use dirty jokes to get key sexual health messages through to young men.
ABC - May 22, 4:43 pm
NSW budget needs to be sustainable: Baird

NSW Treasurer Mike Baird has warned the government will need to take action to put the state budget in a strong and sustainable position.
May 22, 4:37 pm
Sydney workers return after Pitt Street building fire

Office workers at a Sydney high-rise have been allowed back into the building after a fire broke out in a ground floor pizza restaurant.
ABC - May 22, 4:29 pm
Housing crisis a blow to refugee's hope of new life

It is a measure of her desperation that Mary Deng would prefer a tent in a refugee camp in strife-torn Sudan to homelessness in Perth.
ABC - May 22, 4:28 pm
Stocks to watch at close on Wednesday

Stocks of interest on the Australian Securities Exchange at close on Wednesday
May 22, 4:25 pm
Aust shares close lower

The Australian share market at the close on Wednesday
May 22, 4:22 pm
Hoddle St killer's computer plea delayed

Hoddle Street mass murderer Julian Knight has listed legal and educational reasons for his bid to get a computer in his prison cell.
May 22, 4:19 pm
Melbourne man faces hit-run charges

A Melbourne man has appeared briefly in court on an attempted murder charge over an alleged hit-run accident.
May 22, 4:18 pm
Sea turtle mysteries to be revealed via satellite

Marine researchers on Queensland's Sunshine Coast are using satellite trackers to monitor two turtles that have been returned to the ocean today.
ABC - May 22, 4:14 pm
The people would decide on GST: Abbott

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott insists that a coalition government would not head into a tax review with the aim of changing the GST.
May 22, 4:12 pm
Australia waits on US-Afghan decision

Defence Minister Stephen Smith says the US is still working on an agreement with Afghanistan for its post-2014 troop commitment.
May 22, 4:12 pm