WALLABIES are breaking into Tasmania's poppy fields and getting high.

The strange occurrence, revealed in a State Government Budget Estimates hearing, has also solved what some growers say has spurred a campfire legend about mysterious crop circles that appear in northern Tasmania's poppy paddocks.

In true X-Files-style, Attorney-General Lara Giddings said the drugged out wallabies had been found hopping around in circles squashing the poppies, creating the formations – and hence solving the mystery.

The wallabies are increasingly entering the fields and eating the poppy heads, The Mercury reports.

That causes them to get high and run around in circles creating "crop circles".

"The one interesting bit that I found recently in one of my briefs on the poppy industry was that we have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles," Ms Gidding said.

"Then they crash. We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high."

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Supporters of Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi have rallied in northern Tehran, witnesses told the BBC.

Earlier Mr Mousavi urged his backers not to march in the centre of the city.

A spokesman said Mr Mousavi feared they might clash with supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who have also been rallying in his support.

Tough new restrictions on the foreign media mean the BBC is unable to confirm the scale of either rally.

The new restrictions have been imposed amid apparent surprise and concern among the authorities at the scale of popular defiance over Friday's official election results, correspondents say.

President Ahmadinejad was declared the easy victor of the presidential poll on Saturday, with results giving him 63% of votes against 34% for Mr Mousavi.

But the opposition alleged widespread irregularities.

The powerful Guardian Council now says it is ready to recount some votes from the poll, in a move later backed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

But opposition candidates have demanded a full re-run of the election.

Anger at the official result saw hundreds of thousands of Mr Mousavi's supporters take to the streets on Monday - in a rally the size of which correspondents said not been seen in Tehran since the 1979 revolution.

APPLE has been left red-faced after a billboard promoting an iTunes alternative was posted outside one of its flagship stores.

The billboard was promoting DoubleTwist, a software company run by famed hacker Jon Lech Johansen – otherwise known as "DVD Jon".

The program converts copy-protected audio into a different format to allow more transfers and copies of the file.

The billboard was posted on the side of a subway exit next to Apple's major San Francisco store. It was intended to coincide with Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC) which took place last week.

But Bay Area Rapid Transport (BART), which owns the billboard space, removed the ad because the black background was "too dark", Mr Johansen claimed on his blog.

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