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- + Cowboys give Roosters a fright but leaders are still laughing—BRIAN SMITH said his confidence in the Sydney Roosters' title hopes had been eroded but the coach and his captain Braith Anasta were cracking jokes la...
- + Roosters edge out dogged Cowboys—Sydney Roosters will face Wests Tigers in the opening round of the NRL finals after beating the North Queensland Cowboys 18-8 in an unconvincing displ...
- + Pritchard helps Penrith pounce on second spot—A FRANK Pritchard hat-trick helped the Panthers cement outright second position on the ladder and they head into the NRL finals for the first time sin...
- + Crushing win hands Panthers second place—Penrith backrower Frank Pritchard is doing his best to ensure a memorable farewell, scoring a hattrick to the Panthers secure second spot on the NRL l...
- + Noddy exits on a high—Canterbury Bulldogs stun Manly.
- + Bulldogs stun Manly—Canterbury finishes its season on a high.
- + Storm win last game of pointless season—There was a happy ending to a miserable season for the Melbourne Storm as they outplayed Newcastle 34-4 in their last NRL match of the year at AAMI Pa...
- + Un-Beale-lievable!—Spectacular penalty goal on fulltime gives Wallabies one of their greatest wins on South African soil.
- + Un-Beale-lievable—Spectacular penalty goal on fulltime gives the Wallabies one of their greatest wins on South African soil.
- + Back into heart of darkness—Les Kennedy There's a weirdness about the topography at Belanglo: cars stop for no reason, phones cut out.
- + A yin and yang pair—Cate Blanchett opens up about her family, the environment and how her husband is her perfect opposite.
- + A yin and yang pair—Cate Blanchett opens up about her family, the environment and how her husband is her perfect opposite.
- + They made our lives hell—A pentecostal church has allegedly fleeced its own members of more than $4 million.
- + Combat fatigue—Aussie soldiers are fighting and dying in Afghanistan for a caretaker government here and a corrupt one there.
- + Aussie among dead in plane crash—Australian tourist among nine people killed when skydive plane crashes at South Island airport.
- + Katter brushes off 'tricky stuff'—Independent MP bombarded with prompts to back coalition.
- + 'It just started shaking...'—A 7.1 magnitude earthquake rocks New Zealand's second largest city Christchurch, causing injuries and widespread damage.
- + DFAT checks if Aussies caught in quake—Australian High Commission in Wellington is liaising with New Zealand authorities to check if any Australians have been affected by Saturday's earthqu...
- + Earthquake strikes NZ—A 7.0 magnitude earthquake has rocked Christchurch, causing injuries and widespread damage in New Zealand's second-largest city.
- + Gillard's secret weapon: he's from Queensland and is pleased to help—IF BOB Katter decides to throw his support behind a Labor government, Julia Gillard may well have Kevin Rudd to thank.
- + Lightning and storms to hit NSW—State bracing for wild weather as a belt of storms swept east across the continent .
- + 'A bomb waiting to explode'—The Ambulance Service of NSW was lucky to avoid a mass killing in its ranks, the state coroner reveals.
- + A golden moment in time—Catherine Freeman is still coming to terms with that win, writes Roy Masters.
- + A truly awful death—In the last moments of her life, Janet Campbell must have realised she had made a huge mistake in marrying Des.
- + Foreigners target water—International investors are looking to snap up hundreds of millions of dollars worth of our most precious national resource.
- + Liquid gold—Farmers are selling it and savvy investors are buying it, write Deborah Snow and Debra Jopson.
- + Gillard's secret weapon woos Katter—Julia Gillard may have Kevin Rudd to thank if Bob Katter throws supports behind her.
- + Property gets spring in its step—Despite property price growth softening during winter, new listings and sales still resilient across Sydney.
- + Ambulance with sirens on kills woman—A woman died after being struck by an ambulance on Parramatta Road in Camperdown last night.
- + Composer Australia forgot—When Kevin Lucas stumbled on the story of Peggy Glanville-Hicks, he knew it was made for cinema, writes Louise Schwartzkoff.
- + Brother hopes sister's killer suffers—The brother of a new bride who was pushed off a cliff by her gold-digging husband says he hopes the killer suffers for all of his jail term.
- + Google CEO skewered—A privacy group hounds Google's chief over privacy issues by screening a satirical video in Times Square.
- + Cliff murderer sentenced—Des Campbell, who murdered his wife by pushing her off a cliff, was jailed for a maximum of 33 years today.
- + Father lied to sink Labor MP—Man whose question led to outrage against now-ousted Labor MP admits lie abut his disabled son.
- + Tandy keeps quiet; plunge not limited to just NSW—THE controversial betting plunge on the Cowboys-Bulldogs encounter in round 24 was not confined to NSW. The Herald has learnt that apart from TAB Spo...
- + Hockey puts heat on trio—The Coalition says it is "inconceivable" any of the independents would back Labor.
- + Abbott fires $1b blank—Julia Gillard is two seats away from forming a minority government.
- + In a game of being on target with figures Abbott shoots himself in foot—TONY ABBOTT has been poked in the eye by his own budget costings and his eagerness to spend - the same costings that, when the Coalition added them up...
- + Four ways to get the sums wrong—THE COALITION made four kinds of mistakes in its costings according to the Treasury; the understandable, the inexcusable, the inexplicable, and those ...
- + The actor who 'thrilled'—Victoria Longley, 1960-2010.
- + Unfamiliar feeling for Broncos as first pre-finals exit since 1991 looms—IT HAS been a long, long time since a Brisbane Broncos side has been so universally declared a lost cause. One might have to cast their mind back as f...
- + Abbott fires $1 billion blank—Julia Gillard is just two seats away from being able to form government after Tasmanian independent MP Andrew Wilkie agreed to back Labor.
- + Tycoon's wife and the AVO—Just what the glamorous Mrs Ron Medich, 20 years his junior, did to frighten her husband remains a mystery.
- + Airline freebies to minister—Exclusive: Fair Trading Minister received airline upgrades from a powerful Sydney property family last year.
- + Medich has change of heart—Property tycoon Ron Medich withdraws his application for an AVO against his wife.
- + Faces peep from the past—These sandstone faces have been staring at passers-by for a century and a half.
- + Secrets of the Old Masters—It's contemporary painting done the old school way, writes Steve Meacham.
- + Wilkie rejects $1b offer—Julia Gillard is two seats away from forming a minority government.
- + In a game of being on target with figures Abbott shoots himself in foot—TONY ABBOTT has been poked in the eye by his own budget costings and his eagerness to spend - the same costings that, when the Coalition added them up...
- + Four ways to get the sums wrong—THE COALITION made four kinds of mistakes in its costings according to the Treasury; the understandable, the inexcusable, the inexplicable, and those ...
- + Tandy keeps quiet; plunge not limited to just NSW—THE controversial betting plunge on the Cowboys-Bulldogs encounter in round 24 was not confined to NSW. The Herald has learnt that apart from TAB Spo...
- + Hard act to Folau—By 9.20pm tonight, the rugby league career of Israel Folau could be over.
- + Mother's worst nightmare—Sydney mother and daughter subjected to two-week ordeal, but Facebook won't shut down their stalker.
- + Darkness clouds ALP gain—JULIA GILLARD won a vital advantage yesterday and is tantalisingly close to power, but any outcome is still possible as the reels keeping spinning on ...
- + The 'greatest superfood'—The "forbidden" food that has nutritionists raving about its anti-cancer properties.
- + Answer to the $10b question—Puzzled? Here's why Tony Abbott says his costings will save $11.5 billion but Treasury says it's only $863 million.
- + Student sex: $120,000—Teacher Anna Blackburn was warned by a colleague that her affair with a student "would come back to haunt her".
- + Abbott defends costings—Opposition Leader still confident despite Treasury finding a "black hole" of at least $7 billion.
- + Windsor suspicious of Coalition after 'black hole' revelation—One of the key rural independent MPs says he is now suspicious of the Coalition after the Treasury uncovered a multi billion dollar "black hole" in th...
- + MP suspicious of Libs—Independent says he does not know if he can support Tony Abbott after $7b black hole found in costings.
- + NSW - the state of shame—A sleazy minister, a corrupt official, a greedy bureaucrat. Welcome to NSW.
- + Treasury wipes $10b off Lib costings—THE Coalition is wrangling with Treasury over discrepancies in its policy costings believed to total up to $10.6 billion after Julia Gillard ditched h...
- + Libs' $10.6b 'black hole'—THE Coalition is wrangling with Treasury over discrepancies in its policy costings believed to total up to $10.6 billion.
- + Apple reveals new iPod line-up—There's a Nano model with a touch screen, while there's also a smaller version of Apple TV.
- + Lessons from influential Australians, both mates and mentors—HE DOESN'T mention cricket, or Australia as a nation. But Tony Blair lists several Australians among his greatest influences and best mates.
- + US buddy Bush isn't 'a dumb idiot'—THE friendship between Tony Blair and George W. Bush has long been the source of fierce criticism and vicarious interest in Europe, and the memoir doe...
- + Blair's blood, booze, tears—Former British PM exposes ''intriguing, surreal and utterly freaky'' royal family and "manipulator" Diana.
- + NSW - the state of shame—A sleazy minister, a corrupt official, a greedy bureaucrat. Welcome to NSW.
- + ICAC to investigate Rocks property deals—THE state government has ordered an internal inquiry into the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority and suspended a consultant who once worked as an auth...
- + The secret desires of men—New book claims that what men want is simple: more sex, writes Paul Sheehan.
- + Like a candle in the wind—The former MFS boss Michael King has revealed how the pressure to refinance a $250 million debt paralysed him into inaction, writes Michael Evans.
- + Steffensen digs his heels in—John Steffensen might not run at the Commonwealth Games because he is still feuding with Athletics Australia.
- + Mammals fading away—Report claims that many of our mammals are heading towards extinction in the next decade or two.
- + Costings under fire—The Coalition is wrangling with Treasury over discrepancies in its policy costings believed to total at least $4 billion.
- + Economy rest of the world wants—Surprise jump in economic growth delivered one of the strongest growth rates in the developed world.
- + Labor blows economic trump card - again—IN A single day, we saw a snapshot of the best and the worst of federal Labor over the past three years.
- + Gillard's green zone—Has Julia Gillard blown it with her deal with the Greens or has she taken a bravely calculated risk?
- + 'The Barbie' breakthrough—Mexican police took their prey alive - an alleged hitman and "brilliant businessman" who favours beheadings.
- + Taking taxpayers for a ride—Corrupt top lawyer for NSW Maritime ran a significant private business from her office, watchdog finds.
- + Hole drama in Qantas jet—Passenger tells of hearing "a thud, a bump and the plane veered off to the left" when hole appeared in jet engine.
- + She died in lover's chimney—Dr Jacquelyn Kotarac made "an unbelievable error" when she tried to get into her on-off lover's house.
- + Secret key to Circular Quay—Investigation Senior state official signs over multi-million dollar property to powerful Sydney family in secret deals.
- + OK to beat protesters—Vladimir Putin says those who took part in unsanctioned protests should expect a ''whack on the bonce''.
- + Junkets seal Rocks deal—Investigation Senior state official signs over multi-million dollar property to powerful Sydney family in secret deals.
- + The Fraser-Kirk ace—Elizabeth Knight Public glare putting enormous pressure on David Jones to settle sexual harassment case swiftly.
- + Sport is ripe for corruption—Richard Hinds It seems that as sure as there's sport, there's opportunity for betting.
- + Lee, Johnson approached by fixer—BRETT LEE and Mitchell Johnson rebuffed approaches from the same Mumbai gangster who targeted Shane Watson and Brad Haddin for information during Aust...
- + Edible art at church—It's an unpromising site for a new garden – an exposed plot in a Surry Hills churchyard near the noisy traffic of the city.
- + Eight signs of cancer—Scientists have identified eight key signs of cancer which should be investigated immediately.
- + Here's what happens next ...—Sick of hearing what the independents do and don't like? This could be just the curtain raiser.
- + The green slip gouge—The rising cost of compulsory third party insurance sparked a street protest today. So who sets the price?
- + Boy Blunder loses the lot—George Hawa, 25, decided to turn himself in after investing and losing nearly $6 million that wasn' t his.
- + Devil of a lot of calls—Independent MP Rob Oakeshott having major difficulties keeping up with the enormous volume of incoming calls.
- + Sydney's washed up service—If commuters have a sinking feeling about Sydney's transport system, what's happening to the ferry services won't help. Georgina Robinson reports.
- + Rugby murder charge shock—Super 14 star accused of killing policeman "with his hands" after being pulled over for drink-driving.
- + Abbott takes the lead—Labor behind on two-party preferred vote, the element PM has relied on to argue in her favour.
- + 'Do more to win me over'—One of the four independents holding the nation's future in his hands has warned he might not support either party.
- + One in 10 would vote differently in election—More than one in 10 voters would have voted differently had they known Australia was headed towards a hung parliament, according to a new poll.
- + One in 10 would vote differently—Had they known Australia was headed towards a hung parliament. scores would have voted differently.
- + This plague must stop—Peter Roebuck: Cricket's already shaky integrity has been blown out of the water.
- + Fixer targeted Australian stars—THE Australian cricketers Shane Watson and Brad Haddin were approached by a suspected Mumbai gangster with links to illegal bookmakers during the tour...
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