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4:00 AM AEDT | WELLINGTON: Australian paceman Doug Bollinger is eyeing off the first 10-wicket haul of his Test career today after a blistering display yesterday had the tourists approaching an emphatic triumph. ''I'd be lying if I said I wasn't,'' he said.
4:00 AM AEDT | SYDNEY'S high-profile off-season recruit Daniel Bradshaw needs only to safely negotiate training this week to make his Swans debut against St Kilda at ANZ Stadium on Saturday night.
4:00 AM AEDT | IT'S OFFICIALLY known as Whistler, but anyone who's been to the Canadian snow resort knows that it should be called ''Whistralia'', as Australian Olympic skier Jono Brauer recently dubbed it.
4:00 AM AEDT | NO ONE needed to ask the question. ''That was probably the worst game I have ever f---ing played,'' offered Waratahs centre Berrick Barnes after his side's unimpressive 14-10 defeat of the Western Force in Perth.
4:00 AM AEDT | A TOILET seat? $6. A can of spray paint? $4. Sydney Football Club winning the A-League final? ''Priceless,'' said Marty Askew.
4:00 AM AEDT | BRAITH ANASTA doesn't want to get carried away, but what the heck…
4:00 AM AEDT | Although the traditional Aussie digger's slouch hat may be the first headgear that comes to mind when thinking of Anzac Cove, the red and yellow quartered cap worn by surf lifesavers will soon make an entrance just south of that beach.
4:00 AM AEDT | NSW NURSES are this week expected to back a campaign for big pay rises and better staff-to-patient ratios - expensive measures likely to pose a fresh challenge to the Rudd Government's health funding reforms.
4:00 AM AEDT | A CENTREPIECE of the Rudd government's health reforms - the electronic patient identifier system - is at risk of delay until after the election amid concerns over security and privacy.
4:00 AM AEDT | TASMANIA'S Liberals have left open a deal with the Greens as the state's future government remains in doubt.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE great health debate was still 48 hours away but already the government and opposition were at odds about what would win the debate.
4:00 AM AEDT | KEVIN RUDD'S chances of having the states accept his health reform plan have been bolstered by Mike Rann's expected narrow victory in South Australia and the prospect of a hung parliament in Tasmania.
4:00 AM AEDT | AS FORCEFUL as a jet engine, as loud as a freight train and something residents ''never want to experience again''.
4:00 AM AEDT | Fixing NSW's economy is the management challenge of our time, writes Jeff Kennett.
4:00 AM AEDT | KEVIN RUDD'S roof insulation program may have sent the nation temporarily batty, but the state government's solar power bonus scheme is shaping up as a big success.
4:00 AM AEDT | LOOKING for the ultimate family home or hideaway in the Southern Highlands? The Historic Houses Trust of NSW may soon have the very thing.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE streets were not exactly paved with gold but there was still treasure to be found in Paddington's courtyards and laneways yesterday.
4:00 AM AEDT | GREENHOUSE gas emissions in NSW fell this summer compared with the previous year, despite higher than usual average temperatures.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE company favoured to buy Cubbie Station has offered to sell the government 92 billion litres of water for the Murray-Darling basin, in part from the controversial Queensland cotton farm.
4:00 AM AEDT | LESS than three months after the outrage over a toddler's death led to tougher penalties for police pursuits, four more people, including a four-month-old boy, have lost their lives in a police chase.
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