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3:00 AM AEST | THE state was bracing for wild weather last night, as a belt of storms swept east across the continent bringing floods and lightning strikes.
3:00 AM AEST | INSURANCE company policy is discouraging young drivers from driving safer cars. Despite calls from road safety experts to get P-platers behind the wheel of the latest model cars, insurance companies are charging big money to cover new drivers.
3:00 AM AEST | A DAY after the state government pledged to be open and transparent about the performance of the health system, leaked documents show hospitals in Sydney's west have fallen far short of recommended treatment times during winter.
3:00 AM AEST | AN INTELLECTUALLY disabled woman is suing the Department of Community Services, saying it imprisoned her in a residential centre for the disabled.
3:00 AM AEST | THE High Court has upheld a six-figure payout to a former flight attendant exposed to toxic aircraft fumes while pregnant, ending a 10-year legal saga.
3:00 AM AEST | A WINDING ribbon of native bushland and remnant rainforest clings to the steep banks of Wolli Creek in Sydney's south, a stone's throw from the mouth of the M5 tunnel.
3:00 AM AEST | JULIA GILLARD'S ''citizen's assembly'' and Tony Abbott's ''green army'' are both on shaky ground, but the public still has a chance to contribute to Australia's response to climate change.
3:00 AM AEST | The dumping of Kevin Rudd turned Asian voters off the government en masse, writes Andrew Stevenson.
3:00 AM AEST | ROYAL HOBART, the hospital Julia Gillard has agreed to grant at least $100 million, failed an earlier $60 million bid for refurbishment funds and was not guaranteed to get further money under the Labor government's existing funding arrangements.
3:00 AM AEST | THE political decision before the Governor-General, Quentin Bryce, could not have been further from her thoughts as she visited a Melbourne school yesterday.
3:00 AM AEST | VOTERS would rather the three country independents side with Julia Gillard and form a minority government than join Tony Abbott and the Coalition, a new poll finds.
3:00 AM AEST | FORCING gamblers to decide how much they are prepared to lose before they start betting on poker machines could blow a $400 million hole in the NSW budget annually and jeopardise thousands of jobs, opponents have warned, due to a drop in gambling revenue of 30 per cent.
3:00 AM AEST | IF, SOMEWHERE in this world, there existed a handful of people who remained thankful for the NSW government this week, they might have been concentrated in the federal agencies responsible for the nation's biggest tax hunt.
3:00 AM AEST | AFTER intense pressure, the Murray Darling Basin Authority said this week that it would release on October 8 the first clues as to what would be in its basin plan next year.
3:00 AM AEST | PAUL HOGAN is free to leave the country after reaching an agreement with the Tax Office.
3:00 AM AEST | THE Des Campbell sentencing was shown live on television and the internet, the first time this has occurred in NSW.
3:00 AM AEST | IN THE last moments of her life, Janet Campbell must have realised she had made a terrible mistake in marrying Des. While she had been planning their future together, he had been planning her murder.
3:00 AM AEST | The Premier, Kristina Keneally, has carved up the ministerial portfolios of the disgraced Paul McLeay (pictured) and divided them between two senior cabinet members.
3:00 AM AEST | The scientist Stephen Hawking says no divine force was needed to explain why the universe was formed. Australian religious leaders say that is a matter of opinion.
3:00 AM AEST | JEREMY MORTON and Ian Shippen are southern NSW irrigation farmers trying to use the water market to sell out and get off the drip.
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