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With ABC NewsRadio’s daily news poll really hitting its stride now, it’s time throw the net a little wider for all you news junkies .. and find out what your favourite news headline is so far this year!

There are always some beauties from around Australia and the rest of the world.

They can be funny, dramatic, moving and challenging – and come in all shapes and sizes now, via newspapers as well as on line news sites - so we’d like know what you think is the best of them.

To get things moving, here’s a recent ripper from the ABC’s own news ‘crawl’ that runs at the back of its Sydney headquarters: ‘Man Takes Shortcut, Killed By Tiger’.

If you’ve seen a good one, let us know by leaving a reply below and we’ll start building ABC NewsRadio’s Best Headlines of 2009 data bank!

As the whole world focused on America’s Inauguration Day last week, we asked you about the out-going and in-coming Presidents, George W Bush and Barack Obama.

As we know, the former President’s mangling of language quickly became known as ‘Bush-isms’ and they continued right to the end of his second term.

So we gave you a list of five to choose from - and ‘They mis-underestimated me’ was a clear winner with 34% of you, followed by the more naff ‘Thank you, your Holiness. Awesome speech’ garnering 22%.

In contrast, nearly 60% of you believe the greatest challenge ahead for new President Obama is the US economy…

While more than 70% are sure that he will honour his commitment to close Guantanamo Bay within 12 months. 

View the detailed results of these polls here.

 

The results are in!

ABC NewsRadio asked you to tell us what you thought was the most important sports story of 2008. And in the year of the Beijing Olympics, nearly thirty percent of listeners voted for Australian Matthew Mitcham’s greatest-ever Olympic dive, followed by Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt’s three gold medals and American superfish Michael Phelps’ haul of eight gold medals. Certain events in tennis and racing came in next!

Here’s the complete list of the 10 most important sports stories of the past 12 months, as voted by you, ranked in order:

1. Matthew Mitcham’s greatest-ever Olympic dive 28.6%
2. Usain Bolt’s amazing 3 gold medals 21.7%
3. Michael Phelps, superfish, wins 8 gold medals 13.6%
4. Wimbledon Men’s Final (Nadal V Federer) 9.9%
5. Bart Cummings, master trainer, wins his 12th Melbourne Cup (with Viewed) 6.9%
6. Hawthorn beats (hot favourite) Geelong in the AFL Grand Final 6.4%
7. Manly beats (hot favourite) Melbourne in the NRL Grand Final 4.4%
8. Adam Gilchrist, wicket-keeper extraordinaire, retires 4.2%
9. Tiger Woods takes the US Open (literally on one good leg) 3.5%
10. Ben Cousins resumes his footy career (at Richmond) 0.7%

View the results of our other web polls here.

The results are in!

ABC NewsRadio’s first annual end-of-year News poll has delivered an intriguing result.

We were keen to find out what you thought was the most significant news story of 2008. And just over a third of listeners who voted believe it was Barack Obama’s election as US President, on the first Wednesday of November! Less than a quarter felt the global financial crisis was the major news event, while the cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe and the Mumbai attacks were the next most critical, according to voters.

Here’s the complete list of the 10 most important stories of the past 12 months, as voted by you, ranked in order:

1. Barack Obama elected as US President 33.9%
2. Global financial meltdown 23.3%
3. Zimbabwe cholera outbreak 9.6%
4. Mumbai blasts 9.0%
5. China earthquake 8.7%
6. Apology to the Stolen Generations 8.2%
7. Heath Ledger dies 3.6%
8. World Youth Day 1.4%
9. Fidel Castro resigns 1.2%
10. Burma cyclone 1.2%

Now go to our latest poll - and vote for your Sports story of the year!