2/12/2008 | The Reserve Bank has slashed its key interest rate by more than expected in its latest effort to prevent Australia's economy from sliding into a recession.
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2/12/2008 | WEEK 1 1. Friday 13 February Highlanders v Brumbies Dunedin 19:35 2. Friday 13 February W Force v Blues Perth 19:45 3. Friday 13 February Lions v Cheetahs Johannesburg 19:10 4. Saturday 14 Februa...
2/12/2008 | AUSTRALIA's drug regulator has issued a new warning about the popular quit-smoking pill Champix, which it linked to depression, aggression and suicidal thoughts and behaviour in some users.
2/12/2008 | THE price of petrol should drop to 90 cents a litre at service stations across Sydney in the coming weeks following dramatic falls in the price of oil, according to analysts from the NRMA and CommSec.
2/12/2008 | ANDREW SYMONDS has received the strong backing of Ricky Ponting ahead of the top-of-the-table clash with South Africa, and could again be selected alongside fellow all-rounder Shane Watson for the first Test at the WACA Ground on December 17.
2/12/2008 | Brett Lee looked like a tearaway again as he hunted down New Zealanders.
2/12/2008 | GREG BIRD's manager has challenged the NRL to intervene in the Test and Origin star's ongoing battle with Cronulla, accusing the game's top administrators of double standards.
2/12/2008 | CHAMPION jockey Chris Munce has been stood down from riding after Hong Kong Jockey Club stewards yesterday stunned the Melbourne Cup winner with a disqualification that threatens his career.
2/12/2008 | A CARTOONISTS' dream encountered a politicians' nightmare yesterday as Peter Garrett named the Australian Financial Review artist David Rowe the best political cartoonist of the year.
2/12/2008 | SOME laws protecting the environment will not apply to organisers of the V8 supercars race proposed for Homebush next December, under a bill to be debated in State Parliament today.
2/12/2008 | THE $170 million port facility expansion at Port Kembla was trumpeted by the State Government as the end of car import operations in Sydney.
2/12/2008 | JOHN DELLA BOSCA'S closest backer, the Health Services Union, has convinced him to reverse a decision made just two months ago so that responsibility for rescue services will be handed back to the NSW Ambulance Service.
2/12/2008 | THOUSANDS of independent schools could be deprived of government funding next year because of a political impasse over Federal Government plans to force them to teach a national curriculum and disclose their sources of private income.
2/12/2008 | Yesterday's report "Honouring the '39ers" should have quoted the headmaster of Shore, Dr Tim Wright, as saying that a recent casualty in Afghanistan was an old boy of a brother GPS school of Shore.
2/12/2008 | Riding in a glass enclosed box atop a silver Mazda, the Pope created quite a stir when he arrived at North Sydney Oval during a World Youth Day event earlier this year.
2/12/2008 | STATE education systems will be rewarded for giving school principals greater control over budgets, including teacher salaries.
In NSW, the Department of Education has central control over staffin...
2/12/2008 | If Malcolm Turnbull and his colleagues are looking for a letter to use as a weapon against the Rudd Government, they would be well advised to commence at the end of the alphabet and move backwards. Cu...
2/12/2008 | IT COST more than $1.6 million, but the plan to fix Sydney's woeful ferry service has resulted in almost zilch.
2/12/2008 | DISABLED motorists will be forced to pay between $40 and $60 for their "free" e-tag from next month when the Harbour Bridge goes cashless. And drivers who do not use their e-tag regularly will have to pay a fee, the NSW Opposition has warned.
2/12/2008 | THE movements of serial pedophile Kenneth Davidson Tillman should be monitored for the next five years to ensure public safety, a court has heard.