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23 Oct 09 | THE special forces soldier killed this week while training for Afghanistan has left his family a poignant message, telling them he would love them all forever and saying he was prepared to risk death to make life better for Afghans.
23 Oct 09 | THE Health Services Union has disclosed that it spent $599,184 on political campaigning and donations in the 2007 election year, with a significant slice of these funds believed to have been used to back its former national secretary, Craig Thomson, for the NSW Central Coast seat of Dobell.
23 Oct 09 | THE Treasurer, Wayne Swan, will confront his state counterparts today over their plans to plunder the recent increases granted to pensioners by lifting rents for public housing.
23 Oct 09 | COALITION senators have vigorously attacked the role being played by the former National Party leader Tim Fischer as ambassador to the Vatican, saying their one-time colleague could hardly find enough to keep himself occupied there.
23 Oct 09 | GOVERNMENT ''earn-or-learn'' policies are masking growing youth unemployment, with new analysis showing that more than 50,000 young people will no longer be included in statistics.
23 Oct 09 | FADI IBRAHIM has offered to put up $1 million to be let out of jail, and has told a bail hearing the shooting that almost took his life had left him a physical wreck, with no stomach and surviving on liquid food and a cocktail of painkillers.
23 Oct 09 | THE way Richard Buttrose described cocaine use within his privileged eastern suburbs set, there was barely any difference between drinking wine and snorting a line.
23 Oct 09 | AUSTRALIA will struggle to deal with the environment challenges thrown up by its growing population, the Treasury Secretary, Ken Henry believes.
23 Oct 09 | POOR students and those from regional and remote areas are finding the dream of going to university more elusive than ever and entry to elite Sydney institutions virtually impossible.
23 Oct 09 | THE NSW Ombudsman's annual report has condemned a number of agencies, including the Board of Studies and the Roads and Traffic Authority, for their handling of freedom-of-information requests.
23 Oct 09 | SIX MONTHS after the introduction of anti-bikie laws designed to shut down motorcycle gangs, the Attorney-General, John Hatzistergos, announced he was closing loopholes in the bill yesterday. However, there was still no sign of police moving to outlaw the gangs.
23 Oct 09 | THEY may look like ordinary farm paddock stock but on Sunday, these cows will become the first livestock to set hoof on the Sydney Harbour Bridge since the 1930s, when farmers paid tuppence to move their stock across the span.
23 Oct 09 | A LEADING think tank has urged the NSW Government to ration the use of Sydney's roads by introducing congestion charges.
23 Oct 09 | LOCAL councils must be abolished, road user charges introduced, public transport subsidies removed and housing density dramatically increased if Sydney is to cope with a population of 10 million by 2050, a group of the city's leading engineers argues.
23 Oct 09 | THE 78 asylum seekers aboard the Australian Customs vessel the Ocean Viking were condemned to another three days at sea last night after the ship was redirected to the remote Indonesian port of Tanjung Pinang.
23 Oct 09 | IMAGINE if instead of just praying for an empty seat next to you in a long economy flight, you could guarantee it. Take that dream further and configure your two economy seats so it is possible to lie down and sleep.
22 Oct 09 | NATIONAL FOODS executives have bunkered down inside
Devonport's Sunrise Motel to consider a second milk price offer from Tasmanian farmers.
22 Oct 09 | Legendary television presenter Don Lane has died at the age of 75.
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22 Oct 09 | An Australian soldier killed while preparing for his third Afghanistan deployment left behind a note describing his undying love for his family and partner and dedication to serving in the war-torn country.
22 Oct 09 | Three years after it introduced the bug-ridden Windows Vista, Microsoft launches Windows 7 today knowing full well another disaster like Vista could spell curtains for the once indomitable software giant.
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