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    Monday 5th January, 2009 
  • Snake bite boy
    Seven News
    Doctors say a three-year-old boy has fully recovered after being bitten by a snake in the Colo River in Sydney's north-west yesterday. Witnesses reported seeing a large brown snake in the water...

  • NSW considering car confiscations for speeding P-platers
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    The New South Wales Government says it will consider a plan to confiscate cars from provisional drivers caught speeding. The proposal has been put forward by the head of the state's traffic command...

  • Double blade bats set for debut in Australia
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    New South Wales batsman David Warner and Aiden Blizzard of Victoria will use the double blade bats for the first time in Australia's Twenty20 tournament.

  • Upper Hunter residents urged to watch for illegal dog baits
    ABC
    Residents of the New South Wales Upper Hunter town of Murrurundi are being warned to be on the lookout for illegal dog baits which have already killed two local dogs. The Upper Hunter Shire Council...

  • Millennium cruise liner docks at Newcastle
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    The New South Wales Hunter region is on the receiving end of a tourism windfall today with a visit by the luxury liner, the Millennium. Described as the largest cruise ship to ever dock in Newcastle...

  • Canberra hotter, drier than average
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    Canberra was hot and dry last year with 2008 the 12th year in a row where temperatures were above average. The Bureau of Meteorology figures show 2008 was the 17th warmest year on record for...

  • Macbeth Way blood feud
    Sydney Morning Herald
    ... middot; One shot in back, one in buttock · Three stabbed · Up to 100 in street · Riot police, chopper called Riot police and a helicopter were called out to stop a large brawl in...

  • Newcastle building blast leaves community groups stranded
    ABC
    Community groups operating out of a Port Stephens building in New South Wales, damaged by a weekend gas blast, have been told it will be at least six weeks before repairs are complete. An assessment...

  • High-rise suburbs coming to Sydney
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    Sydney will be reinvented as a high-density metropolis serviced by mass-transit subways under a transport blueprint being developed by senior state and federal government bureaucrats.Powerful new...



  • Highest US civilian award for Howard
    Sydney Morning Herald
    Former prime minister John Howard will be honoured with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honour that can be bestowed by a United States president, in recognition of his role...

  • Gunshot, stab wounds in mass brawl
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    Police were called to reports at midnight of a fight involving some up to 100 people who had gathered in MacBeth Way at Rosemeadow near Campbelltown. "Upon arrival police located three men...

  • Concerns baby boom could result in SIDS increase
    Seven News
    2009, 2:03 pm A predicted baby boom for Western Australia in this year has created concerns about a possible increase in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. The organisation Sids and...

  • The smirk that says
    Daily Telegraph
    Parents' lament: Our speeding sons are idiots "How about trying to impress your parents? How about trying to impress the court and the community by showing that you are responsible, and that you...

  • Two shot as 100 fight in street
    Daily Telegraph
    Macbeth Way, Rosemeadow , in Sydney's southwest, about midnight after reports of a fight involving up to 100 people. The two shooting victims were found at a house in...

  • Low rainfall trend continues
    Seven News
    2009, 4:53 pm South Australia has had its 12th consecutive year of below-average rainfall. The weather bureau's annual climate statement also shows SA in line with a national trend...

  • Bush honours John Howard
    Daily Telegraph
    The award is said to be the highest civilian honour bestowed by a United States president. Mr Howard is being honoured for his role in fighting terrorism and for standing by the US as an ally during...

  • Total fire ban for NSW south-west
    ABC
    A total fire ban has been imposed across a large slice of south western New South Wales ahead of predicted soaring temperatures and gusty winds. Firefighters from the Rural Fire Service spent...

  • 78-year-old hoon gets car seized
    Daily Telegraph
    The man was driving the Nissan Pulsar at 170km/h in a 100km/h zone in Brandy Creek Rd, Warragul, east of Melbourne on when he was caught by police. He was following a Nissan Skyline driven...

  • Parents charged as tot
    Daily Telegraph
    Parents of a 10-week-old baby girl whose heart stopped after she was allegedly given the illegal party drug ecstasy will appear in Cairns Magistrate's Court today.

  • Clock starts ticking on 10-minute bar rule
    Sydney Morning Herald
    The hotel industry is hopeful that the Government is going to overturn a controversial new rule designed to slow down drinkers, under which 48 pubs and clubs dubbed the most troublesome in the state...

  • Go west - it will take 27 minutes
    Sydney Morning Herald
    The revolutionary $8.1 billion West Metro will transport up to 30,000 people an hour from Parramatta to the CBD in less than 27 minutes, stopping at nine underground stations, according to secret...

  • If you think it
    Sydney Morning Herald
    Nsw was bracing for a heatwave today as the Australian Bureau of Meteorology published its annual report showing last year to be one of the hottest on record and predicting more scorching...

  • Car salesmen a bunch of lemons
    Sydney Morning Herald
    Car salesmen, real estate agents and investment bankers are among the unlucky workers in Australia's top 10 most vulnerable industries for 2009, according to a report by research house IBISWorld. ...

  • In dock on sex charge at 12
    Daily Telegraph
    After first covering his head with a piece of paper, the boy confidently revealed his face - and smirked for the camera. The youth, who can not be identified, faces one charge of aggravated sexual...

  • Labor wants PR, not patient care
    Daily Telegraph
    Campbelltown Hospital last Monday. By 5pm yesterday, Mr Haywood had not received a call from the minister or his office. "It seems that he's got his bit of positive publicity and he's not...

  • Digger dies in Taliban attack
    Daily Telegraph
    The "experienced" soldier, whose name and rank have not been released, died instantly after an "indirect" Taliban rocket attack on Sunday night in Oruzgan province. The victim...

  • Hot pink at the SCG
    Daily Telegraph
    The inspiring Jane McGrath Yesterday, on what is traditionally Ladies Day of the Sydney Test match, Mrs Bevan made the long drive. But there was no Jane to meet her. Instead, was a sea of...

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