Sydney, Aug 15 : It has been revealed that the secret documents on the basis of which former Australian Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews had blindly relied to cancel Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef''s visa, actually contained no evidence of criminality or involvement in terrorism against the doctor. Instead, it simply established an association between Dr Haneef and his cousins Sabeel and Kafeel Ahmed, who were allegedly responsible for the botched terror attacks in London and Glasgow last year.

The Australian Police had refused to publicly disclose the secret dossier, but according to several sources who had seen the document, it contained “no evidence” linking Dr Haneef to the terror attacks or any criminal activities.

Melbourne, Aug 15 : The daughter of Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl is teaching her kids how to play – because they don''t know how.

Three of the seven kids, which Elisabeth bore Fritzl, spent all their lives in a dungeon in the basement of their home in Austria.

Doctors said they had no concept of enjoying themselves so Elisabeth, 42, is showing them how to swim, run and skate.

The family now lives in a house in the grounds of their psychiatric hospital.

Elisabeth spent 24 years in the dungeon in Amstetten where she was raped repeatedly by her father, now aged 74.

She had seven children, one of whom died days after birth.

Sydney - Tariffs on imported cars would be halved to 5 per cent if Prime Minister Kevin Rudd accepts the recommendations of a panel he appointed to study Australia's domestic automotive industry.

The budget for building a "green car" locally would double to 1 billion Australian dollars (880 million US dollars), Industry Minister Kim Carr said Friday when releasing the report.

"The Rudd Labor government firmly believes that there is every reason to be optimistic about the future of the nation's automotive industry if the right policy decisions are made now," Carr said.

Sydney - Another day, another safety scare for Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd.

Engineers at Singapore's Changi Airport discovered a body panel had fallen off a Qantas jumbo flying between Melbourne and the island republic, a spokeswoman said Friday.

"It had absolutely no flight safety implications," the spokeswoman said.

But there were implications for the passengers from Wednesday's mishap: a six-hour delay before the flight proceeded to London.

Sydney - Leighton Holdings Ltd, Australia's biggest construction company, on Thursday reported a 35-per-cent jump in profits, mostly on a rise in contract mining.

Leighton, which is 55-per-cent owned by Germany's Hochtief AG and delivers around 70 per cent of its profits, said profit rose to 607 million Australian dollars (520 million US dollars) for the year to June 30 on revenue that was up 22 per cent to 14 billion Australian dollars.

Sydney - The wine snobs who said Australians would never forsake bottles with corks for screw-topped ones have been proved wrong.

More than 70 per cent of this year's vintage will go on sale in bottles with metal caps. In fact, corks are now most prevalent in the cheap end of the market rather than in top-shelf wines.

To blunt the shift to metal, Portugal's Amorim has gone on the offensive, saying corks are the more environmentally sound solution because screw tops require four times more greenhouse gases to produce than corks do.

The world's largest producer of corks has a million-dollar advertising campaign running that tugs at the heartstrings of Australian drinkers.