29/08/2008 | A defiant Morris Iemma will sell parts of NSW's electricity assets under a proposal that does not require Parliament's approval.
29/08/2008 | CLYDE RATHBONE has admitted that he was "playing on one leg" from 2005-06 and should not have been picked for the Wallabies.
29/08/2008 | It's all hush-hush at the moment, but expect a strong push from within the Wallabies camp to convince the Australian Rugby Union of the merits of allowing overseas-based players to appear for the national team on long overseas tours.
29/08/2008 | THE Wallabies are hoping the second wind will be enough for them to achieve a historical feat against the Springboks at Ellis Park on Saturday.
29/08/2008 | As the Rocky Elsom judicial farce continued, the Wallabies were forced to train with two different forward combinations at their final training session late last night while awaiting a decision on whether their backrower had won his appeal and could play against the Springboks on Saturday.
29/08/2008 | "SOAP opera," an AFL chief once informed me, "is about the only thing rugby league does better than us" - a reference to the daily column inches and air time devoted to dramas in the codes.
29/08/2008 | JUST minutes after watching his side turn in their best display of an impressive 2008 NRL season last Friday night, Cronulla coach Ricky Stuart sat alongside skipper Paul Gallen and Greg Bird and talked about the positive feeling within the Sharks camp.
29/08/2008 | THE girlfriend of Cronulla rugby league star Greg Bird says her immediate concern is to recover from an eye injury and not clear the air about the night he allegedly hit her with a glass.
29/08/2008 | Graffiti painters may like leaving an elaborate signature on their creations, but now the chemical signature of the paint may prove their undoing.
29/08/2008 | Bennett takes diligent approach Leading driver Greg Bennett will need all his skill if he is to win his first Chariots Of Fire at Harold Park on Friday night with Be Diligent in the group 1 featur...
29/08/2008 | A-LEAGUE clubs are about to face a new raid on their best players as cashed-up Japanese clubs prepare to launch an assault on the popularity of the English Premier League in parts of Asia.
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29/08/2008 | NO BABY elephant has ever been born in Australia - but now three elephants are pregnant at zoos in Sydney and Melbourne.
29/08/2008 | John Messara told an enthusiastic crowd at Arrowfield Stud in Scone on Monday to expect "The King" to make a major comeback to the top of the Australian stallions' chart.
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29/08/2008 | ANY chance of full-on power privatisation died yesterday, with the Opposition refusing to give the Government the support it needed to get the legislation through Parliament.
29/08/2008 | THE first time Emily Chapman tried to end her life in Cumberland Hospital's psychiatric unit, she saved herself at the last minute by pressing the emergency button. But the response she received was far from compassionate.
29/08/2008 | Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard turned up the heat on the education unions yesterday with the Prime Minister telling them it was time to move into the 21st century.
29/08/2008 | UNSCRUPULOUS Sydney landlords are taking advantage of refugees with little or no experience of the city's tight rental market by getting them to sign exploitative rental contracts or evicting them in favour of richer tenants, community service workers say.
29/08/2008 | THE Federal Government is threatening to axe nearly one million individual dental services under its new program unless the Opposition gives way in the Senate and votes down the existing Medicare dental scheme for the chronically ill.
29/08/2008 | THE regally bred dam of untapped colt Dreamscape now resides in the Philippines, but Ashikaga's mother Tropical Dancer is roaming around Mudgee.
The tale of Gooree Stud's two producers giv...
29/08/2008 | Dr Geoff Chapman maintains he was offered $100,000 by John Messara to deter Messara's son, Paul, from a career training racehorses. Perhaps the Doc was having, as we say in the trade, a quiet run, but it was one of the few commissions from which he didn't get favourable results.