Melbourne, Mar 13: Tropical Tourism North Queensland has kicked off a new raunchy campaign with bikini babes and wet T-shirt competitions to boost their backpackers market.

According to The Courier Mail, once dumped in favour of politically correct images of the reef and rainforest, tourism leaders are back promoting sex and sun to attract tourists.

A raunchy new website "Gotta Love the Wet Season" shows the weekly wet T-shirt competitions of the Cairns party scene.

One picture shows a blonde woman with exposed midriff and wet T-shirt dancing away as she’s sprayed with water at one popular inner-city venue.

However, the steamy new image has sparked uproar, and has divided the community.

Sydney, Mar. 13: A day after it was revealed that aging fast bowlers Brett Lee and Stuart Clark would have to put in good performances in the remaining first class matches to be considered for the upcoming Ashes tour, Lee defiantly vowed to take up the new ball in the first Ashes Test against England at Cardiff.

Lee''s position has come under threat after Mitchell Johnson, Peter Siddle and Ben Hilfenhaus ensured Australia maintained their No. 1 world ranking by rattling South Africa in their own backyard.

Melbourne, Mar 13 : You might spot many green cars on the road, if people really start going by the rules of the ancient Chinese system of aesthetics-feng shui.

However, not many would consider it good news because green has long been believed to be an unlucky colour, and it's also an unpopular colour for a car.

But Melbourne-based feng shui practitioner Nadia Lapaduia-Merino has predicted that green is on the verge of a boom.

Vienna - Elisabeth Fritzl had to endure 24 years of torment in the dungeon build by her father, where she gave birth to seven children. But her ordeal started much earlier.

1967: Josef Fritzl is convicted of raping a woman and is sentenced to prison.

1977: Fritzl allegedly starts sexually abusing his 11-year-old daughter Elisabeth.

August 28, 1984: Elisabeth disappears and is considered a runaway. But she is being kept and abused in the cellar under the family home in Amstetten from this day.

Sydney - Australian stocks soared 3 per cent