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1:00 AM AWST | INNER-CITY Zetland challenged its reputation as ''the poorer sister'' to Surry Hills, Paddington and Darlinghurst yesterday when 27 Portman Street was sold at auction for $811,000 - $111,000 above reserve.
1:00 AM AWST | NOT everyone is moved by the written word, so teachers are taking their students who are taking part in the Premier's Reading Challenge to see stories come to life.
1:00 AM AWST | AFTER 7½ years of marriage and three children, Andrew Taylor feels ''incredibly lucky'' to share his life with actress Rachel Griffiths.
1:00 AM AWST | The Independent Commission Against Corruption has slammed security standards in NSW prisons.
1:00 AM AWST | THE Sydney Harbour Bridge had been open barely five months when a double fatality involving a motor vehicle occurred.
1:00 AM AWST | THERE was a time when the bedding most associated with prisoners was knotted sheets thrown out of windows during escape attempts but a novel scheme at Bathurst jail has put the focus on a different type of bedcover.
1:00 AM AWST | NICK LALICH, Labor MP for Cabramatta and mayor of Fairfield City Council, is one of State Parliament's ''double dippers''.
1:00 AM AWST | ENVIRONMENT Minister Frank Sartor has been urged by friends to quit politics for a career in the private sector, as the resignation of John Della Bosca added to expectations that a stream of Labor MPs will jump ship before almost certain election defeat in March.
1:00 AM AWST | RADIO king Alan Jones has a fearsome reputation but he was content to sit and be told what to do by Alesandro Ljubicic.
1:00 AM AWST | IT'S a line-ball call on policy pledges according to the Mascorella family in the marginal western Sydney seat of Lindsay.
1:00 AM AWST | THE Greens will make a bid for votes today at their campaign launch, saying they are the only party offering stable leadership and a vision for the future.
1:00 AM AWST | SUSTAINABILITY and population have become buzzwords of this year's campaign but experts are divided on the merits of any halt to the numbers of people living in Australia.
1:00 AM AWST | ALMOST 1.3 million eligible voters will not be able to have their say on August 21 because they failed to enrol to vote or did not update their details in time.
1:00 AM AWST | WHERE else but Queensland?
1:00 AM AWST | IT WAS a coincidence, according to the Liberal candidate for Bennelong, John Alexander. He and state Opposition Leader Barry O'Farrell just happened to be campaigning in the same Ryde shopping arcade as Labor member Maxine McKew and former prime minister Bob Hawke yesterday.
1:00 AM AWST | A COALITION government would free 3000 aged-care beds to ease the nursing home-care crisis.
1:00 AM AWST | PRIME MINISTER Julia Gillard has accused the Coalition of wanting to dump paid parental leave, saying it wants to axe funds that would allow the scheme to begin.
1:00 AM AWST | A NSW MP has died in his sleep after a suspected heart attack or stroke. Roy Smith (pictured) was found dead by his wife, Pauline, at their Werrington home in western Sydney yesterday morning.
1:00 AM AWST | WITH Miranda Kerr a no-show for David Jones's spring-summer fashion parade, other expatriate models have flown to Sydney to inject some glamour.
1:00 AM AWST | VIRGIN BLUE calls it an ''impairment''. Tiger Airways prefers ''comfort or medical'' issue. But none of the major carriers in Australia has a defined policy to deal with obese or overweight passengers.
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