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4:00 AM AEDT | Although the traditional Aussie digger's slouch hat may be the first headgear that comes to mind when thinking of Anzac Cove, the red and yellow quartered cap worn by surf lifesavers will soon make an entrance just south of that beach.
4:00 AM AEDT | NSW NURSES are this week expected to back a campaign for big pay rises and better staff-to-patient ratios - expensive measures likely to pose a fresh challenge to the Rudd Government's health funding reforms.
4:00 AM AEDT | A CENTREPIECE of the Rudd government's health reforms - the electronic patient identifier system - is at risk of delay until after the election amid concerns over security and privacy.
4:00 AM AEDT | TASMANIA'S Liberals have left open a deal with the Greens as the state's future government remains in doubt.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE great health debate was still 48 hours away but already the government and opposition were at odds about what would win the debate.
4:00 AM AEDT | KEVIN RUDD'S chances of having the states accept his health reform plan have been bolstered by Mike Rann's expected narrow victory in South Australia and the prospect of a hung parliament in Tasmania.
4:00 AM AEDT | AS FORCEFUL as a jet engine, as loud as a freight train and something residents ''never want to experience again''.
4:00 AM AEDT | Fixing NSW's economy is the management challenge of our time, writes Jeff Kennett.
4:00 AM AEDT | KEVIN RUDD'S roof insulation program may have sent the nation temporarily batty, but the state government's solar power bonus scheme is shaping up as a big success.
4:00 AM AEDT | LOOKING for the ultimate family home or hideaway in the Southern Highlands? The Historic Houses Trust of NSW may soon have the very thing.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE streets were not exactly paved with gold but there was still treasure to be found in Paddington's courtyards and laneways yesterday.
4:00 AM AEDT | GREENHOUSE gas emissions in NSW fell this summer compared with the previous year, despite higher than usual average temperatures.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE company favoured to buy Cubbie Station has offered to sell the government 92 billion litres of water for the Murray-Darling basin, in part from the controversial Queensland cotton farm.
4:00 AM AEDT | LESS than three months after the outrage over a toddler's death led to tougher penalties for police pursuits, four more people, including a four-month-old boy, have lost their lives in a police chase.
4:00 AM AEDT | MATTHEW MURPHY'S mind snapped 11 months too early.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE general manager, Pat Romano, spied on people for his own purposes and then billed Burwood Council for it.
4:00 AM AEDT | LEADING bread and cereal manufacturers have agreed to reduce the sodium content of their products in response to rising concern about Australians' high salt intake and heart disease.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE former fashion designer Prue Acton, who is campaigning to save a koala colony from logging in a south-east forest, has discovered a bugging device in her phone.
4:00 AM AEDT | AS MANY as one in 25 children admitted to hospital for asthma may be there as a direct result of inhaled particles from air pollution, government scientists have found in the most detailed Australian research to date on how air quality affects lung health.
4:00 AM AEDT | AUSTRALIAN fathers have a poor reputation for sharing the housework and childcare. But it's all relative, isn't it? Compared to fathers in Italy or France, Australian dads are domestic paragons, a new study shows. Even compared to fathers in Denmark, where the government supports their involvement in childcare, Australian dads hold their own.
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