Adelaide: The mayor of the little South Australian township of Snowtown has announced that after months of negotiations Snowtown has finally reached agreement for sister-city status with Moe in Victoria.

Melbourne: The shock resignation here of a long-serving member of the Victorian Upper House has defied all political and constitutional conventions, experts believe.
"I'm not resigning so that I can spend more time with my family," Mr Charles Flockwell told the House on his final day in politics. "I can't stand a bar of them actually, nor them me. I'm quitting politics so I can go fishing more often."

Sydney: Mrs Mark Taylor has resigned herself to flying to the Channel 9 cricket commentary box if she wants to spend more time with her husband.

Brisbane: Well, everything is big in the Sunshine State. First there was the Big Pineapple. Then the Big Cow. And the Big Mower. Now, the Queensland capital boasts the state's latest tourist attraction with the opening of the $24 million inner-city mall redevelopment this week, The Big Scaffolding.

Melbourne: The perfect safety record of QANTAS is to remain intact despite the recent "incident" in Thailand involving one of the airline's Boeing 747 jumbos, the company's delighted CEO James Strong has announced here. Mr Strong told a media conference that a thorough, top-level internal investigation had officially concluded that the incident had been caused by a 'runway shortage'. Bangkok Airport officials have been notified.