Friday 3rd September, 2010
God's biographer discusses Obama, religion and US policy
What role does religion play in the United States' foreign policy? How is religion shaping attitudes towards US domestic issues, from immigration to citizenship? And what are the religious messages in...
Fighting obesity at the Graduate Connections Breakfast
Ian Caterson , the Boden Professor of Human Nutrition at the University of Sydney and director of the Institute of Obesity, Nutrition and Exercise, will be delivering a talk at Graduate Connections Br...
Trio sought after hotel armed robbery
Police are searching for three men after an armed robbery at a pub in Burwood in Sydney's inner-west. The trio entered the hotel armed with a hand gun, knife and a baseball bat at about 12:25am (AEST...
Hunter businesses submit wish list for region
ABCHunter businesses are ramping up pressure on the New South Wales Government ahead of next year's election in an effort to force the Government to commit to spending more on regional infrastructure. T...
Maitland Show manslaughter trial continues
ABCA teenager on trial for manslaughter over the death of a man at the Maitland Show has told the District Court he was being wrongly blamed shortly after the fatal fight. The 17-year-old is accused of ...
Grazier to sell up over wild dog attacks
ABCA Hunter Valley grazier will today sell almost his entire herd of breeding cattle, saying wild dog attacks are forcing him to give up on the venture. Sydney barrister Tim Bland has an 86 hectare prop...
Tycoon's wife and the AVO
Sydney Morning HeraldNo fears ... left, Ron Medich leaves court after withdrawing his ADVO, and right, Odetta Medich. THE property tycoon Ron Medich may have been called many things in his life but PINOP is not one of t...
Hockey puts heat on trio
Sydney Morning HeraldVideo settings The Coalition has started to put the heat on the three hold-out rural independents - saying it was "inconceivable" any of them would back a Labor government that had joined the Greens t...
Abbott fires $1 billion blank
Sydney Morning HeraldTony Abbott offered Independent MP Andrew Wilkie more money, but Julia Gillard won him over with her responsible health spending and gambling reforms.
Woman charged over rifle raid
news.com.auA YOUNG woman has been charged with a raft of weapons offences after police raided a home in central-west NSW and seized three rifles.
Planning chief visits Oberon to resolve environment plan
ABCNew South Wales Planning Minister Tony Kelly has sent his department chief to Oberon today, in a bid to resolve an eight-year delay in signing off the town's comprehensive Local Environment Plan (LEP)...
Abbott fires $1b blank
Sydney Morning HeraldVideo settings JULIA GILLARD is two seats away from forming a minority government after the Tasmanian independent Andrew Wilkie rejected a $1 billion offer from Tony Abbott and threw his support behin...
In a game of being on target with figures Abbott shoots himself in foot
Sydney Morning HeraldTony 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, helped him successfully flay Labor for profligac...
Four ways to get the sums wrong
Sydney Morning HeraldVideo settings THE COALITION made four kinds of mistakes in its costings according to the Treasury; the understandable, the inexcusable, the inexplicable, and those resulting from a failure to compreh...
Armed raid on Burwood pub
news.com.auThe trio entered the hotel at Burwood, in Sydney's inner-west, about 12.25am today and threatened staff.They raided the tills before fleeing in a green sedan which police believe was driven by a fourt...
Weather Bureau ramps up forecasting
ABCThe Bureau of Meteorology says new forecasting arrangements introduced yesterday will give people a longer and more accurate weather picture. Predictions now will be up to seven days and broken into ...
Tandy keeps quiet; plunge not limited to just NSW
Sydney Morning HeraldTHE controversial betting plunge on the Cowboys-Bulldogs encounter in round 24 was not confined to NSW. The Herald has learnt that apart from TAB Sportsbet and other bookmakers, most of the other bets...
Gallop tries to bury hatchet
Daily Telegraph"People think we bought those premierships," Smith told The Daily Telegraph. "We didn't buy those premierships. We worked as hard as any other side to get there. We trained harder, we p...
Players one match from nudie run
Daily TelegraphCayless is one of 36 players in the NRL who will be desperately hoping to cross the chalk for the first time before the curtain drops on the regular season this weekend. One of four Parramatta players...
Rogers close to being a Bulldog
Daily Telegraph"Not many people know this, but Canterbury actually made me a much better offer than Cronulla to play rugby league [in 1994]," the retiring veteran revealed. "The Sharks offered about $...
Gallop let dad down - Finch
Daily TelegraphMELBOURNE five-eighth Brett Finch has launched a stinging attack on NRL boss David Gallop for failing to support his father, referees boss Robert, who he insists has "the hardest job in the game&...
Tigers to lock Roosters out
Daily TelegraphWESTS Tigers will shift base to the Sydney Football Stadium for the week leading into their home finals match and will employ security guards to keep out the prying eyes of possible opponents, the Syd...
Airline freebies to minister
Sydney Morning HeraldONE of Sydney's powerful Kazal property family, Charif Kazal, arranged more than $6000 worth of business-class airline upgrades for the Fair Trading Minister, Virginia Judge, on a trip to the Middle E...
Medich has change of heart
Sydney Morning HeraldNo fears ... left, Ron Medich leaves court after withdrawing his ADVO, and right, Odetta Medich. THE property tycoon Ron Medich may have been called many things in his life but PINOP is not one of t...
Faces peep from the past
Sydney Morning HeraldTHEY'RE the faces staring back at you from the street: carved from the local sandstone, they have gazed at passers-by for a century and a half. Many of Sydney's grandest Victorian buildings, built in...
Secrets of the Old Masters
Sydney Morning HeraldThe large, colourful Kandinsky-influenced abstracts that dominate Charlie Sheard's studio in a former warehouse in Redfern give little hint of the 50-year-old painter's obsession with Titian, Velasque...
Wilkie rejects $1b offer
Sydney Morning HeraldTony Abbott offered Independent MP Andrew Wilkie more money, but Julia Gillard won him over with her responsible health spending and gambling reforms.
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