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9:26 AM AWST | Lara Bingle was a no-show at court this morning as a 15-year-old boy faced charges in connection with her Aston Martin.
9:24 AM AWST | Australia faces a housing affordability ''time bomb'' - primed by a dysfunctional planning system, a chronic undersupply of homes, and unrealistic expectations from buyers, according to the chief of one of the nation's largest homebuilders.
1:00 AM AWST | Hostilities between Michael Darby and the Christian Democratic Party's Fred Nile have escalated, with Darby accusing Nile of misleading the public over a controversial anti-Muslim survey distributed during last year's Bradfield byelection.
1:00 AM AWST | SYDNEY'S bikie scene has been through a tumultuous year with the two clubs that started the outcry by brawling at the airport at the forefront.
1:00 AM AWST | A NIGHTCLUB manager and member of an outlaw motorcycle gang was allegedly killed over money owed to Fadi Ibrahim, police allege.
1:00 AM AWST | POLICE are preparing to lodge their first application to have one of the state's bikie gangs declared a criminal organisation, possibly within days.
1:00 AM AWST | THE courts have delivered another win to former Guantanamo Bay inmate Mamdouh Habib, declaring that he was defamed by the News Ltd columnist Piers Akerman and paving the way for a hefty payout.
1:00 AM AWST | A GROUP of homeless men who sleep at Bondi Pavilion have taken their fight against Waverley Council and the state government to the highest court in Australia.
1:00 AM AWST | BARACK OBAMA may be on the nose at home but he is as popular as ever in Australia and is assured of a warm welcome next week.
1:00 AM AWST | HAVING initially denied any wrongdoing, the Northern Territory employer of a Filipino 457 visa worker killed when he fell out of a utility has pleaded guilty to workplace violations and been fined $60,000.
1:00 AM AWST | JOSEPH MOURAD gives clients their ''dream hair'' every day. In the past two years the hair stylist has seen demand for hair extensions grow ''like crazy'' as more women sought instantly thicker and longer tresses by attaching human hair to their heads.
1:00 AM AWST | ACROSS the tables of established Sydney restaurants, in university chemistry labs, and on trips to mainland China, federal police allege a drug syndicate plotted to import hundreds of litres of chemicals to be used to make ''ice'' and ecstasy.
1:00 AM AWST | CHARMAINE DRAGUN spent her adult life being medicated for depression. But for Helena Berenson, an experienced general practitioner, the diagnosis of depression ''didn't feel right at all''.
1:00 AM AWST | SYDNEY psychiatrists are leading a controversial global push to stop doctors over-diagnosing depression, giving patients unnecessary treatments and putting lives at risk.
1:00 AM AWST | THE Chinese-born benefactor of the former defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon says she fears arrest and ''prolonged criminal investigation under incarceration'' by Chinese authorities if a document she claims is forged is published.
1:00 AM AWST | THE stage is set for a Senate showdown over the national broadband network - the government is facing a deadline this morning to produce a key study into its design.
1:00 AM AWST | THE ACTU is facing a destabilising run into the federal election with the loss of its most senior strategist, Cath Bowtell, who had been instrumental in the Your Rights at Work campaign that assisted the election of a Labor government in 2007.
1:00 AM AWST | THE family of the bashed Irishman David Keohane said yesterday they were disappointed in yesterday's verdict that one of the attackers, Thomas Isaako, was not guilty of intent to murder.
1:00 AM AWST | THE economic benefits of staging international sporting competitions like the soccer World Cup are often exaggerated by backers of these events, says an expert report the federal government has been sitting on.
1:00 AM AWST | SPEAKING off the cuff, as promised, historian Simon Schama delivered the keynote address at the Sydney Institute's annual dinner last night
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