National News
12:10 PM AEST | The final report into the 2009 Victorian bushfires has been handed to Premier John Brumby.
3:00 AM AEST | Robbie Deans says the Wallabies can turn the corner against New Zealand tonight, writes Greg Growden.
3:00 AM AEST | ENGLAND'S middle order is no longer a one-man band. Kevin Pietersen no longer overshadows the others.
3:00 AM AEST | THE man who has replaced John Howard as Australia and New Zealand's nominee for the ICC presidency, Alan Isaac, supports the creation of windows in the future tours schedule for the Indian Premier League.
3:00 AM AEST | SOCCEROOS midfielder Vince Grella could well be suiting up for his last match with Blackburn Rovers against Sydney FC tonight after the club confirmed he would be given a starting role for the first time in the Festival of Football tournament.
3:00 AM AEST | OFTEN after a close defeat to quality opposition, you'll hear the words ''honourable loss''. It's a little like saying: ''We knew we would probably lose, but we gave it a shot and did OK.''
3:00 AM AEST | THE All Blacks will target the soft underbelly of the Wallabies - eight young players with no Bledisloe Cup experience - in their campaign to clinch an eighth consecutive trans-Tasman victory in the Tri Nations match at Etihad Stadium tonight.
3:00 AM AEST | SOUTH SYDNEY'S hopes of qualifying for only a second finals series since their readmission to the NRL are on even shakier ground, with Sam Burgess last night placed on report for a nasty grapple tackle.
3:00 AM AEST | A story yesterday, ''ATM firm is banned from listing on exchange'', mentioned an indefinite stop order against the float of My ATM. The order is interim and lasts until ASIC revokes it or makes another order.
3:00 AM AEST | ALEXANDRA DOWNIE gave up public speaking after it left her scarred at a contest four years ago. Fortunately for NSW, she has given it another go in her last year of high school - and won the state finals in what is commonly rated as the second most frightening experience in life.
3:00 AM AEST | THEY have Alan Jones on their side, a shrill but formidable ally. People opposed to inner Sydney's new cycleways have generated headlines for two months with a threat of a class action lawsuit against the City of Sydney council. But is it any more than a publicity stunt?
3:00 AM AEST | GRAEME Waldron was singled out at the police royal commission - for being so honest.
3:00 AM AEST | THE talk among the judges of the Cowra Wine Show as they relaxed after tasting the whole day in a clinical atmosphere of white coats, walls and table cloths was of the wine that brings a contemptuous curl to some drinkers' lips.
3:00 AM AEST | Centrelink unwittingly revealed a clash between Islamic laws and Western life, writes Bellinda Kontominas.
3:00 AM AEST | Political science 101: Transcripts of recollections by three Labor prime ministers on the shaping of certain political phenomena.
3:00 AM AEST | THE Labor Party has pushed its official campaign launch into the very last week of the election campaign, sparking opposition claims that the government is panicking.
3:00 AM AEST | PARENTS would be helped to make the choice to send disabled children to private schools under a Coalition plan for a $20,000 education card that follows each student, bypassing state education departments.
3:00 AM AEST | AN EXTRA 300,000 homes will be able to be connected directly to the $43 billion national broadband network the government has promised, it was announced yesterday, as the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, tried to draw attention to Labor's communications policies on the campaign trail.
3:00 AM AEST | THE former prime minister, Kevin Rudd, leaves his electorate office in Brisbane yesterday, just hours before he was admitted to the Mater Private Hospital for an operation to remove his gall bladder after ''acute abdominal pain'' on Thursday.
3:00 AM AEST | AUSTRALIA'S peak farm body has told the Coalition it is not certain agriculture can deliver the quantity of greenhouse emissions factored into the opposition's climate strategy at the estimated price.