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Property shakes off winter blues with $52m sale

02 Sep 10 | SYDNEY'S prestige property market has woken from its hibernation with the reputed $52 million record sale of a Point Piper harbourfront property, Villa Veneto.

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Teacher ordered to pay $120,000 over student affair

02 Sep 10 | NOBODY saw them so much as holding hands. But David Withyman, a teenaged student at a special needs school, and his teacher, Anna Blackburn, spent months in a sexual relationship.

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Too many specimens, not enough people at museum

02 Sep 10 | MORE than a decade after thousands of specimens were stolen from the Australian Museum the NSW Auditor-General has criticised the current management of its collection.

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Fields of glory promised as farmers look to life after drought

02 Sep 10 | THE drought is broken. In NSW, farmers are preparing to harvest their largest crop - a record $2.8 billion winter yield, based on government figures obtained exclusively by the Herald.

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Defence men gave information to bidders

02 Sep 10 | TENS of millions of dollars in Australian government aviation contracts have been awarded to companies that secured their bids with inside information about tenders provided by senior public servants.

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Cedric's fight raises hope beyond death

02 Sep 10 | THE death of a Tasmanian devil whose fight for life raised hopes of resisting the cancer that is scything through the species has underscored the struggle ahead to save it.

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ICAC finds senior lawyer engaged in corrupt conduct

02 Sep 10 | THE Independent Commission Against Corruption has found that NSW Maritime's most senior lawyer engaged in corrupt conduct that included forging documents, cheating on her tax and lying repeatedly about a private conveyancing business she ran from her taxpayer-funded office.

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Warnings over 'poor controls'

02 Sep 10 | THE Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority was warned in a draft 2006 report that its dealings over some of Sydney's most exclusive waterfront properties may not have been negotiated impartially and had exposed the government to significant risks.

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Dysfunctional, corrupt and rotten, the end is finally nigh for Labor

02 Sep 10 | AN INQUIRY into the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, a corruption finding against a NSW Maritime lawyer and, to top it off, the resignation of a cabinet minister who admitted accessing adult and gambling websites on his parliamentary computer.

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ICAC to investigate Rocks property deals

02 Sep 10 | THE state government has ordered an internal inquiry into the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority and suspended a consultant who once worked as an authority executive after damaging revelations about the organisation's conduct.

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Porn, gambling sites claim MP

02 Sep 10 | A REPORT on internet use by MPs and staff of the NSW Parliament has revealed the names of some who may have visited pornographic or gambling websites, including the Minister for Ports and Waterways, Paul McLeay, who has resigned from cabinet after admitting to repeated visits.

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20 years left: mammals plunge into extinction

02 Sep 10 | AT DUSK, the dry savannah of the Kimberley was once alive with the scuttling and foraging of the burrowing bettong, a marsupial whose ''countless numbers'' were marvelled at by early surveyors. |

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Treasury wipes $10b off Lib costings

02 Sep 10 | THE Coalition is wrangling with Treasury over discrepancies in its policy costings believed to total up to $10.6 billion after Julia Gillard ditched her promise to establish a citizens' assembly on climate change to placate the Greens. |

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Top cops tackle betting scandal

02 Sep 10 | THE NSW Police Force has appointed elite detectives from the State Crime Command to investigate the NRL betting scandal in a clear indication of how seriously it regards the possibility that a fraud has occurred.

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Tributes for Aussies killed in PNG air crash

01 Sep 10 | One of the Australians reportedly killed in a plane crash in Papua New Guinea previously owned an airline linked to one of Australia's worst air disasters. | Three Australians killed in PNG ... External Link

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Corrupt NSW Maritime lawyer ran business on side

01 Sep 10 | A top lawyer for NSW Maritime has been found to have engaged in corrupt conduct by running a private business from her office.

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Tassie hockey star's Games berth

01 Sep 10 | AN eighth Tasmanian has been confirmed for next month's Commonwealth Games with the selection of hockey dynamo Eddie Ockenden in the Kookaburras squad for Delhi.

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Paul McLeay quits cabinet

01 Sep 10 | Minister for the Illawarra quits State Cabinet today after admitting using his work computer for gambling and adult websites. |

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Glenroy shooting: Soccer star prays for shot brother

01 Sep 10 | THE brother of a Wodonga soccer star is recovering in hospital after being shot in the stomach at a home in Glenroy. | Hunt on for Albury shooting clues | Glenroy resident heard death ...

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Dropped Kevin Pietersen launches foul-mouthed tirade on Twitter

01 Sep 10 | Kevin Pietersen has launched a foul-mouthed tirade on Twitter following his dumping from the England side less than three months before the first Ashes Test.

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