• Wife suspected an affair

  The wife of high-profile dance teacher Grant Davies became suspicious when he placed a security lock on his phone and computer, court documents reveal. The usually outgoing Mr Davies, who was a co-director of RG Dance Studio in Sydney's inner west, had become ''secretive'' in the past few months, Lisa Ricketts told police. Mr Davies, 39, was arrested at a North ...

• Folau in Cooper out for Australia

  Australia's coach Robbie Deans has not often been described as a risk taker and after scrutinising the Lions squad and noting their power and physicality he decided the mercurial attributes of the fly-half Quade Cooper, who is not the most eager of tacklers, would have worked more to the advantage of the opposition than the Wallabies.Cooper, who fell out with Deans last year after ...

• Winners of NSW Premiers Literary Awards revealed

  NSW Melbourne-based author Carrie Tiffany has won the prestigious New South Wales Premier's Literary Award for Fiction for her novel, Mateship With Birds.Her success comes soon after taking out the inaugural Stella Prize for Australian women's writing.Tiffany's second novel was selected for the $40,000 Premier's Award over titles from some of Australia's most renowned ...

• Footing the bill for sex frolic folly

  It is unedifying to see senior judges disadvantaged by the vigorous sexual activity of a young woman, but this is a self-inflicted wound a full bench of the Federal Court of Australia has brought on itself. The Commonwealth public servant, a woman to whom we shall give the nom de guerre Dolores Tremble, is going to cost you, me and the rest of the taxpayers more than $1 million before she is ...

• Voters approve hip-pocket hits

  It's the poll result that will shock the political class more than any other. A government has defied all convention by taking money away from voters in an election year. And the voters notice. But they approve. Responsibility can be ...

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