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28 Aug 10 | CHANNEL NINE still hopes to screen the rugby league grand final in 3D despite an embarrassing rebuke by the broadcast regulator that the network was not assured of passing all the legal hurdles to show the game.
28 Aug 10 | MOVE over Point Piper, Darling Point and Dawes Point. Australia's most exclusive apartment address is moving to a new part of town - Hyde Park.
28 Aug 10 | THE job advertisement called for ''luxury-loving couples available to globetrot for six months and get paid to test out the most romantic wedding and honeymoon destinations''.
28 Aug 10 | THE Australian Federal Police have agreed to move the alleged child sex victim of the former Solomon Islands attorney-general Julian Moti to New Caledonia and stop the controversial witness payments to her that have reached close to $100,000.
28 Aug 10 | A PLEA by the independent MP Andrew Wilkie for urgent help for Tasmanian logging contractors has turned a spotlight on his tensions with the Greens.
28 Aug 10 | WHEN Labor came to power in 2007, it tried to give the backbenchers a greater role in the processes of Parliament. The trouble was that it required MPs to stay around on Fridays.
28 Aug 10 | A FAMILY link to the Labor powerbroker Bill Shorten is no legal barrier to the Governor-General, Quentin Bryce, performing her role in appointing the next government, the Solicitor-General says.
28 Aug 10 | TONY ABBOTT has bowed to pressure to have his election promises costed by Treasury and the information given to the three rural independents.
28 Aug 10 | ONE of the world's quietest cars will use a fake engine noise to help save lives.
28 Aug 10 | THE moonwalk sounds like the kind of dance every young robot would dream of performing. Soon it could be within their repertoire, thanks to Sydney scientists who have programmed a group of humanoid robots to dance - the agile automatons already have mastered hip-hop.
28 Aug 10 | THE NSW Government's solar bonus scheme, which pays householders for the electricity they generate from their rooftop panels, has proved so popular it has reached a 50-megawatt milestone 18 months before expected.
28 Aug 10 | MOBILE speed camera vehicles will feature a distinctive orange stripe after the state government bowed to pressure from motorists and the opposition for them to be marked.
28 Aug 10 | IT WAS designed in the 19th century as an oasis in the industrial heart of the city - now it is a dustbowl. Wentworth Park's playing pitches, returfed early this year at a cost of $60,000, are barely usable. The city council admits the grass will have to be laid again in coming months.
28 Aug 10 | IT IS ONE of the few good stories the NSW government has to tell on public transport - yet it has refused traditional bragging rights, perhaps because of a struggle taking place inside the state's transport and planning bureaucracy.
28 Aug 10 | The convicted drug smugglers are using art to reveal their 'crazy life', writes Tom Allard in Bali.
28 Aug 10 | RODNEY POPLE'S painting is meant to be provocative. A headless Roman Catholic cardinal towers over the interior of one of Venice's baroque churches, surrounded by images of the Virgin Mary's innocence.
28 Aug 10 | ANGRY parents have protested outside a Hurstville primary school opposing plans to ''cut the school in half'' by transferring students from years 5 and 6 to a boys' high school.
28 Aug 10 | Graduates will be more rounded, writes Heath Gilmore.
28 Aug 10 | SEAN BROGAN is ''enormously proud'' of what he and his ex-wife, Ayela Thilo, have achieved for their family.
28 Aug 10 | CHILDREN who spend roughly equal time with both parents after a divorce or separation are doing well, though no better or worse than children who spend most time with their mothers, a study shows.
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