Sydney: Premier Bob Carr has used State Parliament question time to angrily defend the government's decision to spend almost $230 million in blue dye to make Sydney Harbour as attractive as possible during next year's Olympics.

Gold Coast: Police report that bagman Jack Herbert was frequently sighted on the streets here during the annual Stoolies Week.

Sydney: The top level inquiry into the Blue Mountains train crash which claimed seven lives earlier this month is to close, with full responsibility for the faulty red signal believed to have caused the crash being accepted by Channel 9 cameraman Joe.

Canberra: The Foreign Affairs Department reports that former Prime Minister Paul Keating is resting comfortably in a Djakarta private hospital after paramedics successfully removed him from a top Indonesian businessman's arse.

Melbourne: The Pura Milk company has launched a new range of long-life milk products. They've called it cheese.

Sydney: Embattled SOCOG officials could do with some good news and at last they have it! A fresh batch of 2000 Olympics seats has been found and will be made available to the general public through the normal ballot process. The seats (pictured below) were found on the footpath outside a cottage in Burns Street, Petersham, ready for collection during a local council clean-up campaign. They will be moved among Olympic venues as demand dictates.