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Psychologists and police have established links between moods, criminal behavour and changes of the moon.

Now questions are being asked about last night's tragic incidents - a man's leap from a clifff on front of eclipse watchers, an apparent gun suicide and a hanging.

At Newcastle's Strezlecki Lookout car park, a naked man shocked observers who had gathered to observe the lunar phenomenon - an eclipse during a full moon - by hurling himself to his death from the cliff.

Members of the public reported seeing the man climb over a barrier and jump off the cliff top just befpre 9pm.

His body was found a short time later on a rock ledge about 50m from the cliff top and 15m from the water line.

In Auburn, Sydney, a man apparently shot himself outside his house. Police were called to the home amid initial fears it was the result of gang violence - a neighbour heard a woman shouting "they have killed my son".

The incident is still under investigation, however it was later believed the victim, who was found in the backyard after midnight with a gun nearby, shot himself.

In Pymble early this morning a 55-year-old man was discovered hanging at a design business on the Pacific Highway.

Officials believe it was suicide.

The full-moon effect is much debated among scientists, psychologists and astrologers.

Many believe that the full moon effects moods, leading to increased crime, injuries and psychiatric ward admissions.

The word lunacy is also derived from the Latin luna, or moon.

A study by British police recently claimed a full moon brings out the worst in us.

The study found cases of anti-social behaviour rose noticeably on the brightest nights.

"There is definitely a trend," Inspector Andy Parr of the Sussex police said.

"With each full moon the number of disturbances recorded increased significantly."

Insp Parr, who led the study, said its findings were too striking to dismiss as coincidence.

He compared the number of violent crimes recorded in the region last year with the date of each full moon and discovered a distinct correlation.

"It may be dismissed as an old wives' tale but there's plenty of other research to suggest that the moon has an impact on human behavioural patterns," he said.

Other studies have identified a link between full moons and extremes in human behaviour.

A study published by German scientists in 2000 claimed the full moon also sparked a rise in binge drinking.

They checked the police arrest reports and blood-alcohol tests of 16,495 offenders.

Most of those with an excess of 2ml of alcohol per 100ml of blood - drunk, under German law - had been caught during the five-day full moon cycle.

Another study, published in 1998, discovered an increase in violent incidents among the 1200 inmates at Britain's Armley Jail in Leeds during the days on either side of a full moon.

In Queensland, however, senior police officers remain sceptical about the moon's effect on criminal behaviour.

State Homicide Group inspector Darryl Johnson said last year the full-moon phenomenon was nothing more than an unsubstantiated urban myth.

"I know the kids play up a bit when there's a full moon," he said.

"But officially, there's nothing to link the full moon to any out-of-the-ordinary activity."

For a moment it seemed we were going to be briefed on the latest developments in the Liberal leadership by a startled man from Victoria's Socialist Left. But no, Kim Carr was just occupying the usual briefing room, not providing the words.

We moved on to find the right spokesman from the right party in a different room, one floor down.

The partyroom had heard analysis from one helpful soul that voters, or someone, it wasn't quite clear, viewed the Prime Minister with "grudging respect". Completely coincidently, the BlackBerry held by one of the Prime Minister's staff made a strangled noise like it was going to explode.

But it was question time when Reality Check finally found her inspiration in an unusual place: world championship jelly wrestling. If you think about the Howard cabinet, normally dignified and disciplined people, sliding around the floor knee-deep in green gunk attempting a clumsy squirrel grip, this suddenly makes sense.

Here's an attempted navigation through some of the wibble wobble.

1. "I think the team can win this election." Peter Costello was asked yesterday whether he thought John Howard could win the election.

"I think the team can win the election," the Treasurer purred sweetly.

Who is this team? The same team that gathered in a hotel room in Sydney last week and decided Howard couldn't win the election? Surely not that treacherous team? But apparently, it is that treacherous team, plus the star full-forward, Costello, who was benched in Sydney, considered too treacherous to be part of the treacherous team discussing whether Howard would lose the election. Confused? Why? It's all so straightforward. Go team!

2. "Peter has made it absolutely crystal clear that he supports the team." Tony Abbott, moral philosopher, or perhaps astrologer, on television, willing all was well.

Peter's support for the team was amplified yesterday by his expansive use of the personal pronoun. "I want to see first-class educational institutions. I want to see Australia's water problems solved. I want to see Australia be a country of low tax. This morning, I spoke to the partyroom about the things we need to do for Australia's future." First person singular. Subjective form. Did we mention "go team"?

3. "A matter of the circumstances of the moment." Trust that humanitarian Wilson Tuckey to provide comfort for the afflicted. Asked on his way into Parliament whether he supported Howard, good old Ironbar replied that was all a matter of the circumstances of the moment: the mad, bad, brain-explosion moment.

Cut to Costello for necessary explication: "The team and the program is the key to winning this election. Thank you."

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A growing waistline and darkening bags under his eyes were not the only signs that Queensland Premier Peter Beattie should quit politics - it was written in the stars.

Sydney-based astrologer Yasmin Boland said a new moon eclipse on Tuesday night had created an atmosphere of change.

In particular, she said it was a week for letting go of things - whether it be a job, a relationship, or a fear.

"If you have been clinging on to something, but it's not right for you ... an eclipse is a time when you (let go of the job) yourself, like Peter Beattie, which is the best way - or the universe does it for you," Ms Boland said.

An astrology chart for Mr Beattie shows the influence of Saturn, the planet of pressure, has just ended, and Jupiter, the planet of travel and diplomacy, is in play.

"Maybe he already has a job lined up in the wings and hasn't told us about it," Ms Boland said.

And the universe may yet conspire to bring about Prime Minister John Howard's resignation.

For Mr Howard, who has been under unprecedented pressure to step aside on Tuesday, the eclipse has activated Neptune, the planet of confusion.

"He does need to be extremely careful now, not to appear confused," Ms Boland said.

"Even if he's got no clue about whether to stay or to go, as soon as he shows any chinks in his armour, the vultures will swoop."

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