Melbourne Victoria

QUEENSLAND Labor MP Robert Poole is to have a knee replacement operation in Thailand and will spend three months in the country recovering under the care of his Thai wife.

A PERTH man who was caught trying to import eight child porn magazines into Australia has been jailed for 12 months.

THE lawyer for the Muslim cleric accused of inspiring the terrorists who carried out the 2002 Bali bombings expects his client Abu Bakar Bashir to be released from prison on June 1.

BHP Billiton will investigate building a $300 million desalination plant off South Australia to provide the water needed for its $5 billion expansion of the Olympic Dam mine.

WHEAT exporter AWB may have claimed up to $90 million in tax deductions for its kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's regime.