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4:00 AM AEDT | The expulsion from the Christian Democratic Party of its former campaign director, Michael Darby, over an anti-Muslim survey distributed during the Bradfield byelection has sparked a nasty bout of infighting.
4:00 AM AEDT | It is time for NSW, the only state with rate-pegging, to abolish it, writes Ben Kruse.
4:00 AM AEDT | Without additional taxation powers, cost-shifting ensures councils will never be self-sufficient, writes Brian Dollery.
4:00 AM AEDT | THERE was only room for one blonde in Myer's spectacular winter fashion show for 500 VIPs and celebrities at Melbourne's Sidney Myer Music Bowl last night. Jennifer Hawkins, the former Miss Universe and Myer's answer to David Jones's bombshells, Megan Gale and Miranda Kerr, stood out like a particularly lovely sore thumb among her 50 fellow models after their hair had been uniformly treated with a temporary brunette mousse.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE consumer advocacy group Choice is well known for naming and shaming substandard products and operators at its annual Shonky awards.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE state government has put the Legislative Council on notice that it is ready for another debate on laws that fine newspapers $55,000 for publishing comparisons of school results.
4:00 AM AEDT | WOOLLAHRA Municipal Council has accused a church organisation of inflating the cost of a controversial development in order to bypass local planning controls and have it declared a major project by the state government, accusations which the organisation strongly denies.
4:00 AM AEDT | TEACHERS are asking for a NSW audit into the waste and mismanagement of the federal government's stimulus spending on new school buildings.
4:00 AM AEDT | SIMON SCHAMA'S time starts now. The famed historian has a 10-minute car trip to download Barack Obama, A History as we travel between his city hotel and the ABC's Ultimo studios. This is history by fusillade, by rapid-fire riff. And history so eloquent you could send it straight to the printers.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE federal government has no idea when the US President, Barack Obama, will arrive, or whether a recall of parliament costing hundreds of thousands of dollars to hear him speak is yet a certainty.
4:00 AM AEDT | SINCE leaving office, Henry Cisneros has become a property developer, specialising in what he calls ''workforce housing'' for essential service workers - such as police, teachers, firefighters, nurses, emergency and transit workers - who often cannot afford to live in the communities they serve.
4:00 AM AEDT | IF THE transactions on Benjamin Sweetenham's credit cards were anything to go by, the naval officer had a night to remember.
4:00 AM AEDT | RAILCORP is running up to three months late with thousands of payments to its private contractors because of a computer system it introduced to improve transparency and efficiency.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE corruption watchdog has recommended a Sydney barrister, a Wagga Wagga solicitor and three of their clients be referred to criminal prosecutors as a result of an investigation into local court corruption.
4:00 AM AEDT | A TOP adviser to the Obama administration has warned the Keneally government to exercise extreme caution before using proposed powers that would allow it to acquire private land and turn it over to property developers.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE management of the University of NSW has been accused of playing students and academics against each other, having publicly declared its disappointment over a staff strike and privately challenging staff to take action.
4:00 AM AEDT | CONCERN about rapid population growth is likely to become a potential election issue after the opposition indicated it would support a Greens proposal for an inquiry into the prospect of a bigger Australia.
4:00 AM AEDT | SOUTH AFRICA sings its anthem in three languages, New Zealand in two, but the practice of government ministers acknowledging Australia's traditional landowners remains a moot point in some quarters.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE federal government needs to make a decision between calling a double dissolution election on an emissions trading scheme or cutting a deal with the Senate on an alternative program soon, the Greens leader, Bob Brown, says.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE Northern Territory government took just 30 minutes to approve changes to crucial safety measures at an offshore well just months before it leaked thousands of barrels of oil into the Timor Sea, an investigation has heard.
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