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SYDNEY, Jan 22 AAPLeaked US diplomatic cables reveal that Australian spy agencies have intensified secret operations with the US and Japan, seeking to obtain sensitive information from China, North Korea and Iran.

But the allied intell igence effort has been set back by serious concerns over poor security in Japan for handling secret documents.

The insight into co-operation between Japanese, US and Australian intelligence agencies has been provided by secret US embassy cables obtained by WikiLeaks and provided to Fairfax newspapers. The cables show a major push by the three countries dating back to 2006 to unite in response to China's growing economic and military might.

The cables also reveal that problems posed by North Korea and Iran, together with the threat of terrorism, prompted moves towards greater intelligence co-operation between Tokyo, Washington and Canberra.

Australian intelligence and security agencies implemented improved security after an agreement between then prime minister John

Howard and then US president George W Bush to give Australia greater access to secret US information.

Japanese officials acknowledged the need for improved security, but emphasised reform was difficult and dependent on political attention.

SYDNEY, Jan 22 AAPSydney has been branded Australia's worst city - by its own residents.

Despite its obvious charms, ranging from the iconic Opera House, the beautiful harbour and ready access to numerous beaches, Sydneysiders say their city is the pits.

They hammered its natural environment, schools, housing, cleanliness, cultural integration and road network, ranking it bottom of the nation's eight biggest metropolises.

Adelaide is the nation's best city, followed by Canberra, Melbourne, Perth, Hobart, Brisbane and Darwin, according to an Auspoll survey commissioned by the Property Council of Australia. The survey quizzed 4072 across the nation about the cities they live in.

NSW Premier Kristina Keneally hit back at the findings, sarcastically questioning why more people don't live in Adelaide.

"I did a bit of a survey myself this morning and I checked the population figure," she told reporters on Saturday.

"The population of Adelaide - a little bit over 1.2 million people. The population of Sydney - a bit more than 4.5 million people. I think those figures speak for themselves.

"Adelaide is a great city but if it's so fantastic why aren't more people living there?"

But Property Council chief executive Peter Verwer reckons Sydneysiders are on the money.

Although he admitted the results can be read just as much as a verdict on politicians as the cities themselves.

"I don't think Sydneysiders have been overly harsh here, I think they've been realistic," he told

AAP on Saturday."Sydney has been consistently on the slide

since the (2000) Olympics."The reality is people in Sydney are sick of

broken promises from politicians when it comes to things like infrastructure and transport."

Sydney was ranked a little higher for its entertainment options, finishing second behind Melbourne.

Its climate was ranked third best.Mr Verwer said he hoped the results would

"shock governments into action".

ADELAIDE, Jan 18 AAPVolkswagen has scored a back-to-back win in Australia's longest running motoring award, with its Polo range taking out Wheels magazine's car of the year.

The fifth-generation VW Polo eclipsed 47 versions of the 22 finalists represented 16 different manufacturers in road tests covering 15,000 kilometres.

It is the first time in a quarter of a century a manufacturer has won two years in a row. The VW Golf won last year.

Wheels editor Bill Thomas said the VW Polo range represented outstanding value for the motorist at $16,690 with a range of options, including diesel and seven-speed gearboxes, right through to the power-packed, sporty GTI at $27,790.

"Volkswagen has elevated Polo's quality, safety, performance, efficiency, refinement, practicality and value to the top of its class," Mr Thomas said.

"It's a case of mission accomplished, and the achievements read like a virtual checklist for our tough award criteria".

Twenty-two finalists underwent rigorous week-long test ing, af ter a number of big names failed the initial eligibil ity requirements - including Ford Fiesta, Ferrari 458 and the Mercedes-Benz SLS

AMG.The latest Commodore was one of a swag

of new releases declared ineligible to win the prestigious award after being declared not new enough.

Only one Australian-built car was eligible this year, the Toyota Camry Hybrid, and more than half the field came from Europe.

In just f ive years VW has more than double d i t s m a rke t sh a r e , w i t h t he manufacturer focused on boosting the technology and overall quality of its range.

CANBERRA, Jan 18 AAPMore older high school students are using party drug ecstasy, a new report has revealed.

The federal government released the 2008 Australian Secondary Students Alcohol and Drug Survey on Tuesday.

It showed the proportion of 16- and 17-year-olds who had reported using ecstasy in the month prior to the survey had increased from 2.3 per cent in 2005 to 3.4 per cent in 2008.

However, only four per cent of all high school students had ever used the drug in their lifetimes.

Cannabis was the most commonly used illicit substance, with 14 per cent of all high school students aged between 12 and 17 having taken it at least once.

Three per cent of 12-year-olds had used cannabis before, but that figure leapt to 26 per cent of 17-year-olds.

Six per cent of all students had used cannabis in the month prior to the survey and four per cent in the week before.

In a landmark finding, the report revealed the proportion of students smoking tobacco in the week prior to the 2008 questionnaire was the lowest since the reporting initiative began in 1984.

Five per cent of 12- to 15-year-olds had smoked in the seven days before the survey and this was significantly lower than the seven per cent recorded in 2005 and 11 per cent in 2002.

Among 16- to 17-year-olds the number who have smoked in the past week rises to 13 per cent, less than the 17 per cent found in 2005 and the 23 per cent recorded in 2002.

Fewer Australian secondary students aged

between 12 and 17 said they have tried alcohol at some point. About 82 per cent said they had alcohol compared with 86 per cent in 2005 and 88 per cent in 2002.

Even so, acting Health Minister Mark Butler said he was concerned 44 per cent of recent drinkers aged 16 and 17 were binging.

"This just backs-up the government's decision to develop the national binge drinking strategy and increase the tax on alcopops," he said in a statement.

Mr Butler also urged teenagers to think carefully about using illicit substances like ecstasy, a drug the government is trying to crackdown on at music festivals this summer.

About 24,000 students participated in the survey, coordinated by the Cancer Council of Victoria.

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SYDNEY, Jan 19 AAPOne in five of the food and drink ads aired during children's television in Australia is for a product high in sugar, fat or salt, an industry-backed study has found.

The Austral ian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) commissioned the study as part of its efforts to address the "high level of community concern" about the marketing of junk food to children.

Key findings of the analysis, which took in three months of free-to-air TV and related advertising data from early last year, include:

- Almost 40 per cent of all food and beverage ads aired on TV during the period appeared at least once during a children's program.

- One in five, or 21 per cent, of all food and drink ads shown during children's TV shows were for "non-core" foods deemed high in sugar, fat or salt.

- Ads for confectionary, ice cream or soft drink commonly aired during children's TV shows.

- Also, two-thirds of the companies behind

those ads were signatories to the AFGC's Responsible Children's Marketing Initiative (RCMI), which was set up in a bid to curb such advertising.

The report, to be officially released on Wednesday, also cautions there were many cases where a junk food ad was screened widely during general programming and its appearance during a children's show appeared to be inadvertent.

"AFGC acknowledges there is a high level of community concern about the nature and extent of advertising foods high in energy, fat, sugar and salt to children," the report states.

"... There were 410 individual food and beverage advertisements shown in the five major Australian capital cities from March to May, of which 39 per cent were shown in children's programs.

"Of these, less than a quarter (21 per cent) were for non-core foods."

The researchers also analysed the themes of the different junk food ads which aired during children's television, to determine

which age group the adver tisers were targeting.

A third of these - ten advertisements - were deemed to be directly targeting children under the age of 12.

The report said it was a "positive finding" overall and the monitoring would continue, while AFGC chief executive Kate Carnell said it showed children were not being "bombarded" with junk food ads.

Taking into account those ads specifically

targeting children, and shown during kids' TV shows, these accounted for 2.4 per cent of all food and drink advertising in the three months.

"The new advertising figures resoundingly dispel the myth that Australian children are being bombarded with adverts for HFSS (high fat, sugar or salt) foods on TV, which is clearly not the case," she said in a statement.

"The RCMI has proved successf u l . However, there is st i l l a handful of companies who aren't signatories to the code, and AFGC is working hard to encourage them to sign up," Ms Carnell said.

SYDNEY, Jan 18 AAPStaring across at a crate mountain of more than 150,000 wine bottles, grower Jonathan Hambrook shakes his head in disbelief.

"None of my bottles are here," he says. "None of them. It is devastating."

The 31-year-old owner of Stockman's Ridge vineyard at Bathurst, in central-west NSW, is one of a host of major growers facing financial losses after a Sydney-based company placed major wine orders then failed to pay.

As news broke on Tuesday that police had discovered more than $5 million worth of stock at a warehouse at Fairfield in western Sydney, Mr Hambrook rushed to inspect the haul amid hopes he would be able to recover at least some of the 5376 bottles he had lost.

On arrival, his hopes were quickly dashed."These crooks have taken more than

$250,000 of my wine, yet, amongst the hundreds of crates here, none of them are mine," he told AAP.

"They must already have been exported

overseas."NSW Police say they are puzzled by the

circumstances surrounding the discovery of more than 250 pallets of unpaid-for wine at the Fairfield warehouse and at another warehouse in inner-city Alexandria.

They allege World Wide Trading Company, registered to a Wetherill Park address, obtained more than $5 million of wine and other products but either ignored invoices or used false cheques to pay for the stock.

But Mr Hambrook reckons that figure should be quadrupled.

"All I can say is that this is going to cost people some career-threatening amounts."

Mr Hambrook claimed he was tricked into "selling" wine to the company by two men identifying themselves as Tony and George.

"These are probably not their real names," he adds.

"But we did credit checks and there were no problems with the company. It's so mysterious."

Mr Hambrook was told on Saturday that a police investigation was under way.

"We are a small, family business, originally from Orange," he said.

"We just want this all sorted out as soon as possible."

Speaking at a press conference in Fairfield just moments before Mr Hambrook's arrival, Acting Superintendent Stephen Thomas of Fairfield police had told how officers were yet to conclude what the business was planning to do with the vast quantities of wine.

"At this stage we are still trying to establish

exactly what this business was doing," he said.

"We want to know how they intended to move this wine, either within Australia or overseas."

Police were alerted after a host of major wineries across the country complained that they had not received payments.

The two warehouses were unoccupied when they were raided by officers on Monday, as was the company's Wetherill Park address, and the company could not be reached for comment.

Some suppliers had been able to identify their stock at the warehouses, police said.

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