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White steers team to victory

9:40 AM AEDT | Cameron White showed his class with an unbeaten 50 to guide Australia to a comfortable six-wicket win in the fourth one-day international against New Zealand yesterday.

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Parents to get 18 weeks' paid leave

9:11 AM AEDT | Parents appear certain to be entitled to 18 weeks' paid leave to look after a newborn from January 1, after Tony Abbott said the Coalition would not oppose the government's legislation.

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Billions gouged by the big banks

9:08 AM AEDT | The Reserve Bank has indirectly accused Australia's major banks of profiteering on interest rates, saying the recent series of ''super-sized'' rate rises had outpaced increases in the banks' funding costs. |

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Support grows to fill Lake Wendouree

9:05 AM AEDT | SUPPORT is growing for a public campaign to raise funds for a water right to buy resources to refill Lake Wendouree. |

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Fathers share heartache for their sons

8:44 AM AEDT | Two fathers who loved their boys surmounted their heartache when they clasped hands in Newcastle District Court on Thursday.

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Students farewell Olivia

8:40 AM AEDT | Students from Bolwarra Public School released pink and white balloons into the sky on Thursday to say goodbye to their schoolmate who was killed in a tragic car accident.

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Rudd pledges no batts blowout

8:40 AM AEDT | THE multimillion-dollar cost of fixing the bungled home insulation program will be met by drawing unspent money from the scheme that could otherwise have been used to insulate more homes, the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, says. | Flood of insulation installers ... | Now taxpayers face $100m bill ... External Link

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Pedophiles in our city

8:29 AM AEDT | A couple who used a 13-year-old schoolgirl for pornography now live in the same suburb as their victim. The girl’s distraught mother made the discovery when she saw the woman involved in the indecent assault get into her car at Tenambit shopping centre. The mother followed the car and was shocked to see the woman go into a house three streets away from the victim’s home.

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Two helicopters collided in thick bushfire smoke

8:19 AM AEDT | TWO helicopter pilots did not know they had collided as they fought the December bushfires at Macquarie Woods until they later stopped to refuel, a report from the Australian Transport Safety Bu

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Bushfire victim: I knelt and cried

7:22 AM AEDT | When Wayne West returned to his Brindabella property the morning after it was ravaged by bushfire, he was struck by the devastation.

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Grieving mother's plea: Pray for me

6:51 AM AEDT | The grief-stricken mother of toddler Gurshan Singh Channa says she cannot understand how anyone could have hurt her little boy.

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Sergeant quizzed on death

6:50 AM AEDT | Just a day after becoming a father, Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley has again faced serious questions over the death of an Aboriginal man in custody.

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So you'll pass on the coffee?

4:00 AM AEDT | A gift of the world's rarest coffee beans to Kevin Rudd by the Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has caused a fair bit of chatter.

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Loophole fears bring change to planned law on police chases

4:00 AM AEDT | THE state government has altered its proposed police pursuit laws after concerns were aired that it would be too easy for offenders to escape conviction.

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No bail for teen held over assault

4:00 AM AEDT | ONE of two teenagers accused of bashing a wheelchair-bound Canadian at a Sydney train station is a repeat offender, court documents have shown.

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Teachers give poor marks to national curriculum

4:00 AM AEDT | TEACHERS believe the new draft national curriculum represents a step backwards for NSW students in science and English, little improvement in maths and is unworkable in history.

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'Culture of secrecy' that lurks behind the sandstone

4:00 AM AEDT | BEHIND the sandstone walls The Rocks is seething.

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Foreshore property deals rock the boat

4:00 AM AEDT | Questions are being asked about closed-door lease negotiations in The Rocks, writes Paul Bibby.

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Cut rail fares for flyers: report

4:00 AM AEDT | RAIL travel to Sydney Airport would soar by 1.1 million journeys a year if the private operators of the airport train stations agreed to slash fares, a consultant's report has found.

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