Poor crowds could mean end for the Summernats

Negative media coverage will be partly to blame if Australia’s largest car festival doesn’t live on next year, its founder says.Summernats wound up on the weekend in Canberra with overall crowd numbers down 20 per cent.Just 80,000 people checked out the hotted-up cars and scantily-clad girls during the four days of the festival this year.Founder [...]

Tourist injured after South Australia river plunge

A TOURIST is in South Australia’s Royal Adelaide Hospital after the van he was driving plunged into the city’s River Torrens.The 30-year-old man was pulled from the submerged vehicle by emergency service crews who were called to the scene.Witnesses reported the van sideswiped a taxi at North Adelaide before careering down an embankment and into [...]