13/10/2008 | THE chairman of Westfield Group, Frank Lowy, has warned that all sport will have to contract in order to survive the upheaval caused by the credit squeeze.
While attending sporting events was ofte...
13/10/2008 | MARRIED life began on the wrong foot for North Queensland enforcer Carl Webb, who was allegedly caught drink-driving the morning after his wedding as he was on his way to clean up the reception hall.
13/10/2008 | MELBOURNE Racing Club committeeman and big-time thoroughbred owner Kevin O'Brien faces an anxious wait to see if his Queensland Derby winner Ice Chariot can sneak into the Caulfield Cup field.
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13/10/2008 | DISSATISFACTION with immigration is rising across the country, and NSW is the state most set on reducing migrant numbers.
Between 2004 and 2007 the proportion of voters who wanted the migrant inta...
13/10/2008 | INDIA and Australia have produced another tense contest on a slow pitch and the stage is set for a fascinating fifth day as the combatants fight with every resource at their disposal to take a lead in the series, writes Peter Roebuck.
13/10/2008 | THE Australian Education Union has challenged the Federal Government to "put its money where its mouth is" on its promise of an education revolution after a damning national survey revealed mo...
13/10/2008 | THE NSW Treasurer has warned of higher taxes and falling corporate investment if the state loses its AAA credit rating, but business chiefs said strategic spending on transport and infrastructure was ...
13/10/2008 | THE man remembered as Victoria's big event premier says Sydney's bid to bring the Australian Open north is "pie in the sky" given NSW's economic predicament and its 1950s attitude to staging events.
13/10/2008 | THE Australian Federal Police has assisted in three foreign police investigations after charges which could lead to the death penalty were laid, highlighting the Federal Government's erratic commitment to its international obligations in opposing capital punishment, according to civil liberty advocates.
13/10/2008 | CRAIG LOWNDES and Jamie Whincup once more proved themselves the masters of the mountain with a flawless display of pace and power to claim their third successive win at Bathurst, taking the chequered flag in their Triple Eight Racing Falcon after controlling the 161-lap race for the bulk of the day.
13/10/2008 | WITH attention on visiting international horses now switching to the Aidan O'Brien stable, the Godolphin team is growing in confidence about its chances of featuring in the Caulfield and Melbourne...
13/10/2008 | IN AN attempt to resurrect Weekend Hussler's bid for Australian racing's holy grail, trainer Ross McDonald will fit a tongue tie to the gelding for Saturday's Caulfield Cup, with the Cox Plate and Melbourne Cup still on the agenda.
13/10/2008 | Thursday's graphic "Gong sounds on council's sex, greed saga" should not have said that Rod Oxley, the former general manager of Wollongong City Council, had been found by ICAC to have engaged in corrupt conduct nor that ICAC had recommended that the DPP obtain advice about possible prosecution. In fact, ICAC found Mr Oxley had conducted himself in a manner "liable to allow, encourage or cause the occurrence of corrupt conduct" at the council. It did not recommend that prosecution be considered.
13/10/2008 | The most lasting fallout of the global financial crisis is unlikely to be economic. This is the nature of true financial disaster: in the long run it brings down ideas, recasts societies and redistrib...
13/10/2008 | THE wife of a convener of the Australian Conservation Foundation is being charged with the alleged removal of 150 trees on the couple's Blue Mountains property.
13/10/2008 | KEVIN RUDD'S twin assurances yesterday to guarantee all deposit accounts and the money our banks borrowed were not motivated by any information a bank was about to fall over.
Instead, they were...
13/10/2008 | NOT even in their greatest days of domination at the start of this decade did the Holden Racing Team exert such supremacy in the endurance classics as that now enjoyed by the Triple Eight Racing squad...
13/10/2008 | IT HAS become almost a ritual in itself. A religious community proposes building a place of worship or learning, and encounters the wrath of thousands of residents.
There are furious mass meetings,...
13/10/2008 | AFTER a titanic struggle, Australia broke the shackles last night to set the scene for a fascinating climax to the Bangalore Test.
13/10/2008 | CAULFIELD CUP debutant Jeff Lloyd knows what lies ahead. The former ruler of the South African riding ranks, now a leading player in the Sydney jockey room, reunites with AJC Australian Derby winner N...
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