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9:26 AM AEST | The father whose question at a community forum led to outrage at a Queensland Labor MP two days before the federal election has admitted he lied.
9:13 AM AEST | The Coalition has started to put the heat on the three hold-out rural independents - saying it was "inconceivable" any of them would back a Labor government that had joined the Greens to push a left-leaning agenda.
8:33 AM AEST | Independent MP Andrew Wilkie knocked back a $1 billion incentive to side with the Coalition yesterday, choosing instead to bolster Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s chances of retaining power.
8:02 AM AEST | A PLANNING process ''full of vague and ill-defined statements'' and a ''lack of commitment'' to development by government agencies are the main reasons behind a 10-year slump in Sydney home building rates, a new report says.
6:57 AM AEST | REGULAR poker machine players will need to nominate how much they are prepared to lose every time they play, under a landmark agreement between Julia Gillard and the independent MP Andrew Wilkie.
6:32 AM AEST | TONY ABBOTT has been poked in the eye by his own budget costings and his eagerness to spend - the same costings that, when the Coalition added them up, helped him successfully flay Labor for profligacy and waste during the election campaign.
6:05 AM AEST | JULIA GILLARD is two seats away from forming a minority government after the Tasmanian independent Andrew Wilkie rejected a $1 billion offer from Tony Abbott and threw his support behind Labor.
6:04 AM AEST | THE COALITION made four kinds of mistakes in its costings according to the Treasury; the understandable, the inexcusable, the inexplicable, and those resulting from a failure to comprehend the nature of the process.
4:00 AM AEST | PUNTERS have swung behind Labor with some sizeable bets after Treasury found holes in the Coalition’s policy costings, bookie Sportingbet Australia said.
3:00 AM AEST | Tim Fischer, former leader of the Nationals and former deputy prime minister, has clearly spent too much time at the Vatican.
3:00 AM AEST | The work of a brilliant but ill-disciplined German explorer is about to find a new audience, writes Steve Meacham.
3:00 AM AEST | A LABELLING scheme similar to that for free-range eggs could be applied to seafood after a study into the welfare of wild-caught fish found consumers lacked adequate information to make humane purchasing decisions.
3:00 AM AEST | PAUL HOGAN and the Australian Tax Office are negotiating to find a way through the impasse that has seen the actor barred from leaving the country.
3:00 AM AEST | GUILT-FREE seafood has taken another hit. The world's premier sustainable fishing scheme is under attack from eminent scientists for failing to protect the environment.
3:00 AM AEST | THE industrial strike has become little more than a memory in most Australian workplaces, with declining union membership and legal changes producing a fundamental shift in our work culture.
3:00 AM AEST | ANDREW WILKIE came to Canberra demanding a new Royal Hobart Hospital. When Tony Abbott offered him $1 billion for just that, he knocked it back and accepted Julia Gillard's offer of $340 million for a refurbishment.
3:00 AM AEST | AUSTRALIA is not going to have a hung parliament. Not if Bob Katter has his way. As one of the three men who now hold the balance of power in federal politics, Mr Katter told the Herald last night he expects to act in concert with his two fellow regional independents, Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott.
3:00 AM AEST | FOR eight years Silke Bader and her partner, Tanya Sale, have fostered an 11-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy.
3:00 AM AEST | THE Director of Public Prosecutions, Nicholas Cowdery, QC, has accepted some responsibility for a year-old dispute with the state government over a staffing crisis in regional courts.
3:00 AM AEST | THEY'RE the faces staring back at you from the street: carved from the local sandstone, they have gazed at passers-by for a century and a half.
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