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3:54 PM AEST | Kevin Rudd has been admitted to hospital for an operation to have his gall bladder removed but has promised to campaign to help Julia Gillard whhen he is released.
3:41 PM AEST | An intruder rescued from an exhaust shaft deep inside the Crown entertainment complex yesterday is yet to speak to police about his ordeal.
12:28 PM AEST | Former Australian Democrats leader and Labor MP Cheryl Kernot will stand as an independent Senate candidate for NSW at the next federal election, the ABC has reported.
11:37 AM AEST | National city home prices fell for the first time in 17 months in June, as auction clearance rates dipped and higher interest rates cooled the market.
10:45 AM AEST | Four people, including two teenagers, are stranded in Bass Strait after the engines of boat failed.
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9:33 AM AEST | POLICE have confirmed the identity of a young male found dead at the base of a cliff in the state's south yesterday.
4:00 AM AEST | A BINGARA father has been sentenced to three years’ jail over the death of his infant son in 2006.
3:00 AM AEST | Talk is not cheap at Fairfield City Council. So noted its mayor, Nick Lalich, after he was cleared this week of slagging off a fellow councillor. An offended and embarrassed Zaya Toma made a formal complaint against the mayor in May after Lalich told the council that Toma was ''single and has nothing better to do'' and ''lives with his mother''.
3:00 AM AEST | Mark Arbib is a true believer in 'whatever it takes', writes Deborah Snow.
3:00 AM AEST | At noon today, candidates, campaign managers and curious onlookers will gather in election commission offices around the country for an important piece of theatre - the lottery to determine the order of candidates on the ballot paper.
3:00 AM AEST | In the dying days of Kevin Rudd's leadership, internal polling in Greenway showed Labor's two-party-preferred vote in the north-western Sydney seat wallowing at 45 per cent.
3:00 AM AEST | Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott talk about restraining immigration and being '' fair dinkum'' but each is more representative of the changing nature of Australia than they would have us believe.
3:00 AM AEST | Two primly dressed ladies in pink carrying a pair of budgie smugglers and a stuffed budgie shadowed the Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, across Melbourne yesterday, questioning his stance on climate change, the mining tax and his attitude to women.
3:00 AM AEST | Bikie gangs, knives and violent crime in local neighbourhoods - issues that worry state leaders - moved to the federal arena yesterday as both major parties outlined tough on crime policies.
3:00 AM AEST | A re-elected Gillard government would offer families of every child with a disability under the age of six $12,000 to help pay for early intervention services.
3:00 AM AEST | Julia Gillard took her campaign to Perth last night after reasserting her authority by vowing to sack from her cabinet anyone caught leaking information.
3:00 AM AEST | Australians favour the idea of an electronic health record - with a significant minority even prepared to pay for it - according to a survey of 1200 people.
3:00 AM AEST | The barrister for an American singer charged with assaulting the NSW MP Paul Gibson has accused police of giving preferential treatment to the member for Blacktown, a court has heard.
3:00 AM AEST | They are one of the last places you will see fields of beetroot and bok choy in inner-Sydney, but soon the market gardens at Phillip Bay could be pushing up daisies.
3:00 AM AEST | NSW had its hottest year last year and Australia its second warmest after 2005, according to the most comprehensive international report into global warming assembled.
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