National News
4:00 AM AEDT | ❏ Yesterday's front-page caption said the NSW Governor, Marie Bashir, kept the President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, waiting for 10 minutes before a meeting. The Herald accepts the Governor had been asked to wait in an adjoining room.
4:00 AM AEDT | A gift of the world's rarest coffee beans to Kevin Rudd by the Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has caused a fair bit of chatter.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE state government has altered its proposed police pursuit laws after concerns were aired that it would be too easy for offenders to escape conviction.
4:00 AM AEDT | ONE of two teenagers accused of bashing a wheelchair-bound Canadian at a Sydney train station is a repeat offender, court documents have shown.
4:00 AM AEDT | TEACHERS believe the new draft national curriculum represents a step backwards for NSW students in science and English, little improvement in maths and is unworkable in history.
4:00 AM AEDT | BEHIND the sandstone walls The Rocks is seething.
4:00 AM AEDT | Questions are being asked about closed-door lease negotiations in The Rocks, writes Paul Bibby.
4:00 AM AEDT | RAIL travel to Sydney Airport would soar by 1.1 million journeys a year if the private operators of the airport train stations agreed to slash fares, a consultant's report has found.
4:00 AM AEDT | IT WAS the last news bulletin Charmaine Dragun read, and she was convinced it was her ''worst ever''.
4:00 AM AEDT | IN THE end it was nature that triumphed and astounded.
4:00 AM AEDT | FOR the fourth year in a row Sydney Airport has been rated the country's worst large airport, charging the highest average prices per passenger, a report from the competition watchdog reveals.
4:00 AM AEDT | IMPROVEMENTS to physical health will probably be outweighed by the negative impact of the Northern Territory invervention on psychological health, spirituality and cultural integrity, according to a report to be released today.
4:00 AM AEDT | TONY ABBOTT might be facing derision from business lobbies over his proposed tax increase, but the public appears to be less wary - three-quarters of Australians believe companies should pay a greater proportion of tax.
4:00 AM AEDT | NICK XENOPHON'S appeal for a parliamentary inquiry into Scientology collapsed into acrimony yesterday, amid claims it represented an attack on organised religion.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, has indicated he will not die in a ditch over paid parental leave, saying any system is better than nothing.
4:00 AM AEDT | A PROPOSAL to redevelop the upper levels of the State Theatre and Gowings buildings into a boutique hotel has been given a thumbs-up by heritage experts, who say it could help preserve and enhance the historic Sydney buildings.
4:00 AM AEDT | HE ALLEGEDLY kept a loaded semi-automatic pistol under his mattress but police say Paul Salvatori Cannuli was only a middle rung in a well-oiled ''Mafia'' drug syndicate broken up this week.
4:00 AM AEDT | SYDNEY'S auction market has lost some sheen.
4:00 AM AEDT | POLICE have charged the son of the long-serving NSW Labor MP John Aquilina with the sexual assault of a 22-year-old woman.
4:00 AM AEDT | AN OLDER driver safety program from the United States is being trialled in Dubbo today and tomorrow, with the intention of introducing it across the nation if it is successful.
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