Provides the latest RSS feeds for Sydney News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Sydney Sun.com http://www.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/10/id/ae0def0d9b645403/ en-us Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:24:14 -0500 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:24:14 -0500 30 The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper. Skip directly to: http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19685199/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:47:39 -0500 Sydney Morning Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19685199/ Hayfever season in Canberra is expected to last several more weeks due to increased grass growth around the capital this year. Chemists have reported a rush of customers suffering hayfever symptoms o... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19686672/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:58:01 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19686672/ SHANE O'NEILL was a fisherman, a footballer, and a butcher. But, above all, he was a father. He rarely went drinking with his football team, preferring a night at home with his fiancee and young so... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19686674/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:47:45 -0500 Sydney Morning Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19686674/ Australia maintained its 100% record in the final Asian World Cup qualifying group when it stole a last gasp 1-0 win over a Bahrain side that dominated for much of the game but could not convert it... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19686675/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:47:42 -0500 Sydney Morning Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19686675/ AUSTRALIA has a new mammal. Scientists have discovered a previously unknown dolphin swimming in the nation's southern waters. Until now it had been thought the world had just two species of bottle... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19686673/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:47:37 -0500 Sydney Morning Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19686673/ A 40-year-old man was inside his home on Birdwood Road, Georges Hall, at about 11.30pm (AEDT) on Wednesday when he heard a knock at the front door. He opened the door and was confronted by three unkn... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19686676/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:46:52 -0500 news.com.au http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19686676/ A MAN has been extradited to NSW to face charges over a brutal hammer attack and attempted strangulation in Sydney's inner-west, following his arrest in Melbourne. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19686677/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:46:49 -0500 news.com.au http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19686677/ THE odds were stacked against a father and his two sons who drowned in cold water after the children fell from a wharf on the NSW south coast, lifesavers said. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19686678/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:46:41 -0500 news.com.au http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19686678/ at least two smashes in which one person died. Read more here . Emergency services responded to flooding across Sydney with roads affected at Moorebank, Chipping Norton, Haberfield, Smithfield, Tamar... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19686679/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:46:32 -0500 Daily Telegraph http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19686679/ THE Socceroos escaped with a barely deserved 1-0 win this morning in Bahrain after a World Cup qualifying display to embarrass all concerned. Against an apparently weakened and vulnerable Bahrain, Aus... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19686680/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:46:31 -0500 Daily Telegraph http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19686680/ A MAN died of a heart attack after being repeatedly shot with a Taser in one of the first uses of the weapon in NSW, but police omitted it from official records, including on the man's death certifica... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675491/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:15:40 -0500 Sydney Morning Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675491/ THE debilitating disease multiple sclerosis, which affects more than 18,000 Australians, could be prevented with a vaccine being trialled in Europe.Researchers from the University of Queensland yester... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19674005/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:15:36 -0500 Sydney Morning Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19674005/ THE Rees Government has yet to finalise how parents will pay new fees for children to travel to school on public transport, or when the charge will begin.As outlined in last week's mini-Budget, the fr... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675492/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:15:38 -0500 Sydney Morning Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675492/ MANLY winger David Williams will today be officially called into Australia's World Cup team to play the Kiwis in Saturday night's final at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675496/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:14:48 -0500 Daily Telegraph http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675496/ A MAN died of a heart attack after being repeatedly shot with a Taser in one of the first uses of the weapon in NSW, but police omitted it from official records, including on the man's death certifica... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19674004/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:15:38 -0500 Sydney Morning Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19674004/ GROWING cannabis becomes legal in NSW today - provided you are a licensed farmer who will harvest hemp for industrial use.After years of debate, the State Government has approved large-scale hemp farm... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675494/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:15:35 -0500 Sydney Morning Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675494/ Roosters prop Frank Paul Nuuausala this week lost a staggering 5kg - and the bad news is he still has another 10kg to go. The giant prop, along with four other Roosters players, has been forced to tr... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675498/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:14:49 -0500 Daily Telegraph http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675498/ The disgraced former Federal Court judge was given seven days by state Attorney-General John Hatzistergos to argue why he should not be stripped of his rank of Queens Counsel. Einfeld said he had spok... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675510/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:14:47 -0500 Daily Telegraph http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675510/ A national vote by wool producers is shaping up to be one of the most important elections in the history of the wool industry. At stake is the industry's commitment to phase-out surgical mulesing, wh... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675489/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:26:59 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675489/ Four Australians have appeared in court in Papua on charges that they violated Indonesia's immigration laws when they landed in the country without visas in September. Vera Scott-Bloxam, Keith Mortim... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675488/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:27:01 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675488/ Dusk was the best time for fishing at the popular wharf. It was about 8pm and Riley was looking after his little brother, who was in the pram up against a small safety ledge along the wharf. Suddenly... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675505/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:14:52 -0500 Daily Telegraph http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675505/ The Central Coast doctor shocked the host of a New Year's Eve party with his offer even though he had just warned other guests to treat her with special care, she told the NSW Medical Tribunal. The w... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675500/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:14:50 -0500 Daily Telegraph http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675500/ The Daily Telegraph can reveal that former front-row bookend Leabeater has joined the ticket that aims to overthrow the Parramatta football club board and veteran CEO Denis Fitzgerald. The Eels great... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675512/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:14:46 -0500 Daily Telegraph http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675512/ The same goes for tortuous NRL pre-seasons. And so it was for prodigal pivot Trent Barrett this week as he returned to rugby league's most dreaded arena following a three-year absence. Fresh from th... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675501/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:14:50 -0500 Daily Telegraph http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675501/ HIGH-POWERED rifles and pistols were handled individually by jury members yesterday at the trial of five men accused of conspiring to carry out a terrorist attack in Australia. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675497/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:14:48 -0500 Daily Telegraph http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675497/ Superintendant Mick Willing, Far South Coast Local Area Commander, NSW Police, speaks to ABC radio. (Audio Duration - 00:00:15) http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19674003/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:15:40 -0500 Sydney Morning Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19674003/ But rural motorists continued to pay up to $135.8 a litre for unleaded petrol. And while the Service Station Association predicts Sydney will see average prices fall to below $1 a litre next week, it... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675506/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:14:52 -0500 Daily Telegraph http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675506/ THE State Government has launched a battle to strip back teachers' generous sick pay entitlement - up to half a term off - triple that of nurses and ambulance officers. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675495/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:14:48 -0500 Daily Telegraph http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675495/ THE Macquarie Airports-controlled Sydney Airport has taken the axe to its workforce, handing out redundancy slips to 25 full-time staff early this week.Just as this year's Christmas decorations were b... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675517/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:06:36 -0500 Sydney Morning Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19675517/ The family of a northern Tasmanian man who's been missing for two nights hold fears for his safety. 69-year old Nicola Sallese from Sheffield has not been seen since Monday morning. His family belie... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19670703/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:39:35 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19670703/ Victoria's Latrobe University has extended its deadline for voluntary redundancies because of a lack of interest. Last month the university announced it plans to cut enough jobs to save $23 million b... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19670704/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:39:33 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19670704/ The Tasmanian Government has rejected calls for a multi-million dollar bail out package for struggling timber workers. The Greens have proposed a plan to bail out struggling forest workers after call... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19670707/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:39:26 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19670707/ November 18, 2008, 9:20 pm The country's first recycling plant for electronic waste has been opened in western Sydney. But the operators say Australia's e-waste policy is lagging way behind th... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19670706/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:39:28 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19670706/ Feminist Germaine Greer says the dress Michelle Obama wore to her husband's US election declaration was a "butcher's apron" and looked like a "geometrical haemorrhage". In her regular column for th... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19670708/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:29:21 -0500 Sydney Morning Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19670708/ The trio tried to kill the unnamed 17-year-old and planned to dump his body outside Canberra, police told the ACT Magistrates Court today.Police said the accused had lined a car boot with a curtain an... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19670709/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:28:39 -0500 news.com.au http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19670709/ Today is World Toilet Day and a public art exhibition is being held in Brisbane's Queen Street Mall to raise awareness for the 2.6 billion people who do not have access to a hygienic toilet. About 50... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19667065/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:55:34 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19667065/ Job opportunities in the Arnhem Land grocery industry are forecast to double in the next decade. The Arnhem Land Progress Association has opened the Northern Territory's largest grocery storage facil... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19667068/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:55:26 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19667068/ A MAN caught by police with his penis submerged in a pasta sauce jar was still pleasuring himself while resisting arrest, a court has been told. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19667074/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:43:29 -0500 news.com.au http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19667074/ November 18, 2008, 7:42 pm The St Vincent de Paul Society says it is receiving more calls for help as job losses increase in the wake of the economic downturn. Launching its Christmas appeal, ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19667066/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:55:31 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19667066/ The federal Education Minister, Julia Gillard has officially opened a new high tech learning centre at the Batchelor Institute of Tertiary Indigenous Education, south of Darwin. The e-Learning and Re... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19667067/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:55:29 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19667067/ Troubled football star Ben Cousins has vowed to play next year despite stringent drug-testing conditions imposed on his comeback by the AFL. "I am pleased that the AFL commission yesterday decided ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19667072/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:44:07 -0500 Sydney Morning Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19667072/ November 18, 2008, 9:26 pm Alice Springs has officially had its wettest November in 135 years of records. Several storms swept through the region today, mostly to the south of the town. The A... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19667070/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:55:22 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19667070/ The Northern Territory's Health Minister says a hospital at Palmerston could be part of the NT Government's plan for 2030. The Government has been struggling to find doctors to staff a super clinic p... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19667069/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:55:24 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19667069/ John Doyle, known to his friends as Skip, was seriously injured in his unit on Maloney Street, Eastlakes, on July 6, 2005, after two men allegedly broke into his home. He sustained severe head injurie... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19667073/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:43:25 -0500 news.com.au http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19667073/ Dr Sulieman Hamid, 53, allegedly touched the cognitively-impaired patient on her breasts and lips while he treated her for a slashed wrist in a cubicle at the Sunshine Hospital emergency department in... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19667076/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:43:17 -0500 Daily Telegraph http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19667076/ 19 November 2008 The installation of Sydney's most celebrated Christmas tree is underway in Martin Place. The tree has been a Sydney icon for 72 years. Each year thousands of children flock to the ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19667077/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:39:21 -0500 Sydney Media http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19667077/ An aged care home on Tasmania's north-west coast is to be shut down, with the company blaming financial losses. Residents at the 34- bed Levenbank home at Ulverstone have been told they have two year... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19663573/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:18:39 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19663573/ NEW South Wales Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione says he was only made aware of the death of a person after use of a Taser when a report by the NSW Ombudsman was released. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19663577/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:07:18 -0500 news.com.au http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19663577/ A jury has examined rifles, pistols, a shotgun and ammunition found in the home of one of five men facing charges of conspiring to prepare a terrorist act. Evidence officially began today at the NS... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19663575/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:07:51 -0500 Sydney Morning Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19663575/ Nestle is planning to cut the sugar content in some of its best known products. The move by the international food manufacturer is part of plan to improve the nutritional reputation of its foods. Ne... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19663572/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:18:41 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19663572/ AUSTRALIA will continue to build warships like HMAS Sydney as symbols of strength and resolve to act should the time come, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19663576/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:07:20 -0500 news.com.au http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19663576/ AN estimated $100,000 worth of a drug similar to ecstasy will be prevented from entering Australia each week after the arrest of a Sydney man, police say. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19663579/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:07:10 -0500 news.com.au http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19663579/ THE father killed with his two sons while fishing in the South Coast wharf tragedy was a regular angler who proudly took the youngsters out three times a week, it has emerged. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19663581/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:06:58 -0500 Daily Telegraph http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19663581/ Environmentalists say plans to house almost 500,000 people in two western Sydney growth zones will compromise the last remnants of endangered Cumberland Plain Woodlands. The woodlands once covered al... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19659553/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:52:19 -0500 ABC http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19659553/ <br clear="none"/>Indigenous leader Murrandoo Yanner will appear in the Mt Isa Magistrates Court today to face nine charges, including public nuisance and dangerous operation of a vehi... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660531/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:51:09 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660531/ Some of the Bendigo Bank's community bank branches are considering operating some of the ABC Learning childcare centres. The centres are in receivership and have been given federal funding to help th... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660532/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:51:07 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660532/ Victoria Police have taken away the body of a man which was dumped outside the Sunshine Hospital in Melbourne's west earlier today. Homicide detectives still have not identified the Asian man in his ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660528/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:51:13 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660528/ Victoria's first Koori County Court has opened in the Latrobe Valley. The court is made up of a group of local Koori elders who will hand down sentences to offenders from their community, under the g... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660533/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:51:05 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660533/ A six month investigation by New South Wales police into the illegal supply of illicit drugs in southern Wollongong has led to the arrest of four men. Police say a 32-year-old Berkeley man was arrest... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660526/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:52:13 -0500 ABC http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660526/ November 19, 2008, 10:11 am Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has attended a memorial service in Canberra for the victims of HMAS Sydney . Today marks the 67th anniversary since the sinking of HMAS Sydn... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660527/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:51:18 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660527/ Public school teachers in New South Wales are holding stop-work meetings for two hours today. While some schools will provide teacher supervision for students, others have informed parents they canno... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660525/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:52:14 -0500 ABC http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660525/ The chairman of the biggest irrigation enterprise in the Murray-Darling Basin says he has not ruled out selling water entitlements to the Federal Government's buyback scheme. Keith De Lacey from Cubb... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660529/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:51:16 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660529/ Kimberley police have backed claims by Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett, who says one-off Federal Government welfare payments may be squandered on alcohol in Indigenous communities. Mr Barnet... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660535/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:51:01 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660535/ reports more than 4.3 million after-hours consultations took place in medical clinics last year, costing taxpayers more than $197 million in doctors' fees. There was a 34 per cent increase in the numb... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660544/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:40:41 -0500 news.com.au http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660544/ NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione said the Tasers had been deployed to defuse potentially life-threatening situations. But in a report tabled in Parliament today, Ombudsman Bruce Barbour express... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660542/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:40:35 -0500 news.com.au http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660542/ November 19, 2008, 10:22 am Outback Queensland tourism operators say they are expecting a big rise in visitor numbers as a result of the film Australia . The epic production premiered last night... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660530/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:51:11 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660530/ A wreath-laying ceremony has been held at the Cenotaph in Martin Place to commemorate the 67th anniversary of the sinking of HMAS Sydney. More than 100 people gathered to remember the 645 men who los... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19659552/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:52:21 -0500 ABC http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19659552/ A FATHER desperately cried for help before leaping five metres into the water to save his two young sons who had fallen from a wharf on the New South Wales south coast. Police said the father, 28-yea... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660545/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:40:32 -0500 news.com.au http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660545/ A YOUNG Sydney man accused of conspiring to carry out a terrorist attack would not have involved himself in such a scheme because he was looking for a wife, a court heard today. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660546/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:40:17 -0500 Daily Telegraph http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660546/ Southern Courier reports. Representatives from the NSW Free Beach Action Group delivered a petition with almost 1000 signatures to Randwick Council, the Deputy Premier, Carmel Tebbutt, and the Local ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660547/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:40:15 -0500 Daily Telegraph http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19660547/ A new pathways education program to be introduced at Hunter high schools will aim to address skill shortages in the region's defence Industry. About $3 million is being provided to develop the school... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656741/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:12:45 -0500 ABC http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656741/ Tamworth is to get the lion's share of new federal funding to help boost the Australian economy. It will get $1.2 million under the Government's $300 million package announced during the Council of A... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19655196/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:12:47 -0500 ABC http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19655196/ Lake Macquarie City Council is the region's biggest winner from the Commonwealth's $300 million infrastructure stimulus package. It is set to receive $2.1 million, while Newcastle council gets just u... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656743/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:12:43 -0500 ABC http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656743/ November 19, 2008, 10:11 am It was Australia's greatest maritime loss. On November 19, 1941 the pride of the Royal Australian Navy, HMAS Sydney , was sunk off the coast of Western Australia after... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656753/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:11:16 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656753/ Tourism operators are pushing for an admission fee to be charged at one of Victoria's best known natural attractions. Several groups have suggested a charge like a parking fee or gated entry for admi... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656746/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:11:30 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656746/ Soaking rain in parts of south-east Queensland has raised hopes of a boost to water storages, but more rain is needed to get the streams flowing into the catchments. Parched soils have been soaking u... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656750/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:11:22 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656750/ A social impact study of a controversial harbourside restaurant development in Newcastle shows the net benefits outweigh concerns about noise and antisocial behaviour. The restaurant and takeaway dev... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656742/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:12:44 -0500 ABC http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656742/ New South Wales mid-north coast councils are to get about $6 million from the Federal Government's $250 million community infrastructure fund. However, the per capita distribution of funding does not... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656740/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:12:47 -0500 ABC http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656740/ Munster invoked the famous spirit of their 1978 predecessors but ultimately it wasn't quite enough as the All Blacks came back to snatch a nerve-wracking and precious 18-16 victory in Limerick toda... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656754/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:01:20 -0500 Sydney Morning Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656754/ A meeting of Wollondilly councillors has resolved to call an urgent meeting with the New South Wales Minister for Health regarding an historic aged care facility. Mayor Michael Banasik says there is ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656745/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:12:40 -0500 ABC http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656745/ The century-old Springbok emblem of South African rugby that has been a source of pride to some and alienation to others is to be replaced by the country's national flower. South African Rugby Unio... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656756/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:01:13 -0500 Sydney Morning Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656756/ A number of roads in South Australia's far north have been closed after a heavy storm overnight. About 45 millimetres of rain fell at Lyndhurst, Woomera recorded 20 millimetres and Marree almost 20 m... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656747/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:11:29 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656747/ Hunter Valley police are investigating a car crash that has injured three adults and an left an infant with a fractured skull. Yesterday afternoon, a station wagon left the road and crashed into tree... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656739/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:12:47 -0500 ABC http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656739/ Police have arrested a second person over the alleged torture of a baby in Cairns in far north Queensland. A 17-year-old yourth has been charged with torture after her baby was admitted to the Cairns... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656752/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:11:20 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656752/ After more than 15 months of negotiations, the Northern Territory's Education Union has agreed to accept the NT Government's pay offer. The new conditions and salary should come into force before the... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656749/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:11:24 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656749/ Two men have been charged with the theft of lobster tails, shrimp and other gourmet food from the Qantas catering facility. The Australian Federal Police said today they had charged a 46-year-old ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19655209/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:01:18 -0500 Sydney Morning Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19655209/ A PRAM was seen bobbing in dark, choppy waters after a father plunged from a wharf on the NSW south coast in a futile bid to save his baby and young son. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656757/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:00:31 -0500 news.com.au http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656757/ A report on police action on Palm Island following a 2004 death in custody will go to the Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) within a week. Today is the fourth anniversary of Mulrunji Doomadgee's ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656751/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:11:18 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656751/ NEW Zealand rugby league pair Nathan Cayless and Sika Manu have been issued with cautions by the World Cup Match Committee ahead of Saturday's Brisbane final against Australia. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656760/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:00:14 -0500 Daily Telegraph http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656760/ A CRANKY stripper sacked by club bosses when she turned 44 is suing for age discrimination - because she reckons she can keep peeling off until she's the right side of 50. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656763/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:00:12 -0500 Daily Telegraph http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656763/ KIWI coach Stephen Kearney has named an unchanged line-up to face Australia in the rugby league World Cup final in Brisbane on Saturday night. http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656762/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:00:12 -0500 Daily Telegraph http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19656762/ Patients will be moved into the new $51 million hospital in Queanbeyan south-east of Canberra today. The facility has been built alongside the exisiting hospital and boasts state-of-the-art operating... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19651773/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:23:34 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19651773/ November 19, 2008, 7:57 am Victoria Police homicide detectives are trying to establish the identity of a man whose body was dumped outside a Melbourne hospital this morning. The ambulance entran... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19651771/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:23:37 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19651771/ THE "no deposit" home loan is about to become a thing of the past, as the big banks tighten the screws on new borrowers. The Commonwealth Bank yesterday told mortgage brokers that it would stop off... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19651774/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:13:19 -0500 Sydney Morning Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19651774/ JUST as Therese Rein, wife of the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, had to give up aspects of her business, the former US president Bill Clinton may have to cease some of his activities for his wife, Hil... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19651776/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:13:23 -0500 Sydney Morning Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19651776/ A father and his two children have died and another man is in a critical condition after one of the children, a four-year-old boy, is thought to have accidentally pushed the pram of his 15-month-old... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19651775/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:13:21 -0500 Sydney Morning Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19651775/ Another childcare centre operator has gone into voluntary administration. CFK Childcare runs about 40 centres in New South Wales and has told the Australian Securities Exchange it has been losing abo... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19651772/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:23:36 -0500 Seven News http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19651772/ A British father was locked in a police cell overnight after being caught smacking his seven-year-old son on the bottom. Mark Frearson said he had been angry with his son Harry after he walked off ... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19651778/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:13:15 -0500 Sydney Morning Herald http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19651778/ Police searched two western Sydney premises shortly after 9pm (AEDT) on Tuesday and arrested a 31-year-old man at a home on The Horsley Drive, Smithfield. Police said they discovered a loaded semi-au... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19651779/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:12:35 -0500 news.com.au http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19651779/ Bra Boy Cheyne Geoffrey Wilkinson was "picked on" for his size and ran from a fight as he wanted no involvement. Wilkinson, a senior member of the Maroubra-based Bra Boys, was freed on bail... http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19651781/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:12:26 -0500 Daily Telegraph http://story.sydneysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ae0def0d9b645403/id/19651781/