Melbourne, Mar 1 : With the unemployment rate reaching new heights courtesy recession, women in Australia are turning to strip joints and brothels for work.

But those doing the hiring are saying the jobs come with a lot of guilt and "can do your head in", reports The Courier Mail.

With the chance to earn between 1500 dollars and 8000 dollars a week, Rachel Love from the Gold Coast''s Pentagon Grand brothel said she had never seen such an influx.

In Brisbane, the B Confidential gentlemen''s bar is getting 10 to 15 applications a week for women prepared to do lap dances, pole dancing, stage and private shows.

But the job isn''t just dancing and taking your clothes off, owner-manager Lisa says.

Sydney  - A 15-year-old boy surfing with his father became the third shark attack victim in Sydney in as many weeks when he was mauled at picture-perfect Avalon Beach on Sunday.

"He's got extensive bite wounds and lacerations," a spokesman for Royal North Shore Hospital said. "He has severe injuries but I don't think at this stage they're life-threatening."

Nick Miller from the Avalon Beach Surf Lifesaving Club said the pair were the only surfers in the water when the boy was gored just after dawn.

Melbourne, Feb 28 : Actress Anna Hutchison has revealed that she would dare to bare it all again, despite her role in the Underbelly prequel leading to a controversy.

Hutchison, 23, stripped naked for more than 2.5 million people in her raunchy role, and some viewers and family groups have condemned her steamy sex scenes with Matthew Newton and frequent breast exposure as soft porn.

Acknowledging the attention and backlash as "controversy the producers will be loving", the New Zealand actress said that she dared to bare and would do it again.

Melbourne, Feb 28: More than 90 per cent of women who have boob jobs feel better about themselves, a new Aussie study has revealed.

According The Daily Telegraph, tests on 120 women before and after cosmetic surgery found that 8 per cent had body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), a rate four times higher than in the general population.

"They think they are ugly when they are not," News. com. au quoted clinical psychologist Julie Malone, who conducted the research, as saying.

People with BDD who had cosmetic surgery felt no better about themselves, or in some cases worse.

Canberra (Australia), Feb. 28 : Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith has called on Pakistan to make sure it doesn''t sponsor terrorism against India, to shut down Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist networks that operate in the country and make a better effort against the Taliban, besides improving security across the Pakistani-Afghan border.

Smith's statement has been widely welcomed.

According to an editorial in the Australian: " These are absolutely the right things for Smith to say and the right policies for Australia to pursue."

It further goes on to say that Kevin Rudd Government is now reprising the failed policies of the Howard Government towards Pakistan.

Melbourne, Feb 28 : Virgin Airlines boss Richard Branson is all set to strike a deal with Ian Thorpe to rope her into an ambassadorship role for his V Australia airline, according to reports.

Earlier, Branson was allegedly pitching for Miranda Kerr, but now he is close to having the Olympic great onboard.

The news comes just two months after Thorpe's sponsorship contract with rival Qantas expired.