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12:42 PM AEDT | JODY Barber had only just arrived in Australia that day when she made the fateful decision to go for a bike ride on one of Canberra's busy roads.
11:44 AM AEDT | Petrol prices have soared to a 16-month high and analysts say drivers can expect little relief in the short term. Unleaded petrol, which has surged 16 cents a litre to $1.38 since the end of February, is expected to push even higher as the price of crude oil climbs on international markets.
10:52 AM AEDT | POLICE had been hearing rumours for months about an eastern suburbs cocaine dealer known as ''the Man''.
10:41 AM AEDT | Six men have been charged over a terrifying brawl at a shopping centre in Melbourne’s east yesterday.
10:29 AM AEDT | Australia's Commonwealth Games team is struggling to attract sponsorship, with corporate Australia baulking at supporting a Delhi Games that many dread might not occur.
10:26 AM AEDT | A schoolgirl was robbed at gunpoint and indecently assaulted on a street in Sydney's west yesterday.
9:40 AM AEDT | Police have charged a 34-year-old South Australian man following a pursuit at Ballarat last night.
9:08 AM AEDT | The frontrunner to take over the safe Labor seat of Canberra is poised to quit the race amid claims Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was about to personally intervene in the contest.
8:59 AM AEDT | Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has effectively launched the federal election campaign, calling the first of three debates with Opposition Leader Tony Abbott.
8:47 AM AEDT | A drink-driver whose children were in the back seat when she crashed her car into a Kambah house has been banned from driving for three months.
8:00 AM AEDT | United States President Barack Obama is delaying his trip to Australia and Indonesia to concentrate on the passage of his healthcare legislation which he has made the centrepiece of his first term.
8:00 AM AEDT | Police have arrested a 25-year-old North Melbourne man in relation to an aggravated burglary in Ballarat East.
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4:00 AM AEDT | Mark Rudan may be on the books of a rival club but the man who led Sydney FC to their first, and so far only, championship makes no secret where his allegiance lies in the grand final.
4:00 AM AEDT | Combative Northern Irishman Terry McFlynn insists the rivalry between Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory is not driven by hatred or the Kevin Muscat factor, but rather the winning culture the two clubs share.
4:00 AM AEDT | Waratahs hooker Tatafu Polota-Nau was happy to tutor Pek Cowan in the fine art of hooking during the Wallabies tour last year. But tomorrow night Polota-Nau aims to dish out a far harsher lesson to Cowan when they face up in the middle of the front row in the Waratahs-Western Force derby in Perth.
4:00 AM AEDT | WELLINGTON: Ricky Ponting had been assured by the suits at Cricket Australia that Michael Clarke was mentally fit. Text messages from Clarke had eased Ponting's fears about his vice-captain being curled up in the foetal position after the human tendency to be devastated by the end of a serious relationship.
4:00 AM AEDT | State MPs arrived at Macquarie Street yesterday to find themselves confronted with the fallout from a serious leak - but not the political kind. Instead, parliamentary staff were busy mopping up on four levels after a mysterious flood overnight.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE Keneally government is frustrating attempts by the opposition to enshrine the rights of the state's 750,000 carers in law, even though mirror legislation was introduced into Federal Parliament on Wednesday.
4:00 AM AEDT | A POLICY of the Department of Forensic Medicine relating to bodies of people who were HIV positive is being challenged on the grounds of discrimination.
4:00 AM AEDT | NOTORIOUS pursuers of publicity though they may be, parliamentarians' egos shrink alarmingly when in Canberra.
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