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The Queensland Government has defended the performance of the State’s public hospital emergency departments, and promised to release a more detailed report card.

A conference in northern Tasmania has heard there has been a sharp rise in the number of children needing treatment for burns this summer.

Charles Darwin University has received a further $10 million in federal funding to develop its research sector.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, accusing him of being untrustworthy, deceptive and “tricky” with voters.

The W-A Opposition says patients at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital have been forced to wait longer for elective surgery after operating theatres were closed for 42 days over the Christmas period.

Consumer groups say the serving sizes listed on food packaging may be giving people the wrong impression about how much they should eat.

Tasmania’s Health Department is waiting on advice from clinical toxicologists interstate, about a possible cluster of heavy metal poisoning cases in the state’s west coast.

The Tasmanian rehabilitation group that lost its premises in a fire remains upbeat about the future.

The International Transport Workers Federation says it is concerned about the welfare of 22 Chinese crew working on a freighter moored at South Australia’s Wallaroo.

A mother who crashed her car in Melbourne’s north with two children on board has allegedly recorded a blood alcohol reading more than four times over the limit.