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10:27 AM AEDT | FOUR hundred students at Cootamundra High School got an extended recess when a fire broke out in a classroom yesterday.
10:11 AM AEDT | THE future of 145 Border jobs have come under a cloud after Wodonga company, Paragon Printing, was placed into administration.
10:11 AM AEDT | LIKE hundreds of other Wagga people, Troy Barry Hund took his family for a drive around town on Monday to look at a Murrumbidgee River swollen by record rainfall after years of drought.
10:10 AM AEDT | A MENTAL and physical assessment has been ordered for a teenager accused of stabbing a young man in the thigh during a bloody confrontation at Wagga's Sturt Mall shopping centre on Monday.
10:10 AM AEDT | MARIJUANA plants with an estimated street value of $1.25 million have been discovered in three hidden plantations in a forest near Tumut.
10:08 AM AEDT | TRAFFIC along the Olympic Highway near Yerong Creek was severely disrupted yesterday after a semi-trailer rolled, spilling grain all over the road.
9:31 AM AEDT | AT LEAST 1500 people have lost their jobs and are applying for government retraining programs because of the sudden suspension of the $2.45 billion insulation rebate.
8:59 AM AEDT | As many as one in five private international education colleges are failing to meet basic educational standards, with many little more than permanent migration visa factories, the head of a review of the sector said yesterday.
8:32 AM AEDT | The Family Court of Australia has approved the sterilisation of a disabled 11-year-old girl.
4:00 AM AEDT | The breakup of the debt-laden property empire of developer Gary Baker is now under way. And heavy losses appear likely for the ambitious developer best known for wearing trademark white zinc on his smiling lips. Receivers have listed two luxury units in the ocean front Pacific Terraces complex at Bondi Beach, right, for a March 31 McGrath auction, reports the Herald's property editor, Jonathan Chancellor.
4:00 AM AEDT | When the Barangaroo Delivery Authority called for a broad debate on its preferred development proposal, The Sydney Morning Herald approached the NSW branch of the Royal Institute of Architects for help. The institute's council agreed to circulate two questions. The Herald asked: do you believe construction of a pier into the harbour will set a precedent for other developments? More than 40 responded: two-thirds opposed the plan, while a third supported it, as these edited letters show.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE man charged with reviewing Australia's international education industry estimates one in five vocational colleges are ''permanent residency factories'' and has conceded some of them may be forced out of business as the $17 billion sector is cleaned up.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE bestowing of one of Australia's highest honours on the Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, was a ''pragmatic'' move, human rights groups said.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE health reform blueprint will not end blame-shifting between state and federal governments and may leave many hospitals in dire straits, two authorities on health warn.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE NSW Attorney-General, John Hatzistergos, says he refused a request for a judge who criticised Labor's dealings with donor developers to be an acting judge in the Supreme Court because the government now prefers full-time appointments.
4:00 AM AEDT | BILLED as the most exclusive of support groups, the CEO Circle is a safe place for executives to talk about their ''issues and failures''. And, at more than $1600 a meeting, the boardroom-style workshops are designed for only the most senior executives.
4:00 AM AEDT | ''IF YOU ladies leave my island,'' screams Gunnery Sergeant Hartman to his fresh recruits in Full Metal Jacket, ''if you survive recruit training, you will be a weapon … But until that day you are pukes. You are the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human … beings. You are nothing but unorganised grabastic pieces of amphibian shit.''
4:00 AM AEDT | Why was $10,000 spent for a "strategic planning conference" at Lake Crackenback Resort in early 2008? Also, who attended and what was discussed?
4:00 AM AEDT | SWEEPING local government mergers to create 10 super councils, and a trial of staggered starting times for schools as a means of easing peak-hour traffic congestion feature in a package of 10 big ideas to get NSW moving again. They will be launched by the NSW Business Chamber today.
4:00 AM AEDT | ABI WHITEHAIR is only nine days old but she's already saved taxpayers thousands of dollars.
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