Melbourne, September 4 : A 19-year-old Australian man has landed himself into trouble by burping in a police station in Tully, south of Cairns, Queensland.

A Queensland police spokesman alleged that the man burped twice in the face of an administrative assistant at the front counter of the police station, and when asked to control himself, he began "swearing, became abusive to police and aggressive in front of others including an elderly woman waiting at the counter".

Sydney - Watch the pick-up points at Australian airports and women are behind the steering wheel when they arrive but usually relegated to the passenger seat when they leave.

Driving is still considered a man's job - if a man's available to do it.

"Australian men don't like to be a passenger when their partner is driving, and most don't believe women are good drivers," motoring journalist Stephen Corby said.

Even pedigree dogs are happy to wolf down meat left over at the abattoir. But cats are often fed the fishmonger's best.

"Our pets seem to be eating better than their owners," said Giovanni Turchini, a researcher at Melbourne's Deakin University.

"These gourmet pet foods contain a significant amount of fish that may be suitable for direct human consumption. We don't have enough fish to feed the world."

Turchini would like to see pampered felines weaned off restaurant-quality grub and introduced to the by-products of the fish filleting industry.

Dogs thrive on leftover meat and it follows that cats could get used to offal.

Melbourne, Sept. 3 : Australia''s 12.5 billion dollar education export industry is likely to take a major hit with the country’s immigration authorities deciding to tighten laws for the recruitment of Indian students.

According to The Australian, all universities are likely to urge their foreign students, including Indian students to get their visa applications lodged and processed as per the new rules.

A spokesman of the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, however, said: "Gnuine applicants had nothing to fear from the changes.”

Melbourne, Sept 3 : A prostitute at The Golden Apple brothel in Sydney''s Kings Cross has taken the lid off on one of the biggest question that has intrigued many for decades- ''Why men visit brothels?''

Kylie (name changed) says that men have many fetishes and fantasies, which they cannot ask from their girlfriends or wives, and thus end up in a brothel.

According to her, working in a brothel requires a woman to be sex worker, psychologist, nurse, police officer, stress relief therapist, actress - and sometimes even a jockey.

"We get a lot of guys who have a little quirk or fantasy that they can''t act out with their wives or girlfriends so they come to us," News. com. au quoted her, as saying.

Sydney - Australia's economy is growing at a quarter of the rate of a year ago, sparking fears that a global top performer has joined a slowdown evident in most of the rest of the developed world.

In the three months through the end of June, the gross domestic product (GDP) rose 0.3 per cent, figures from the Bureau of Statistics released Wednesday showed.

It was the slowest GDP growth rate in three years. The culprit was a sharp drop in household consumption, underlined by a 10-per-cent decline in car sales.

Credit growth was the lowest in 20 years with many households hard hit by petrol price increases and trouble keeping up with mortgage payments.