17 Aug 10 | Before you pack the children off to school, or take one more look in the mirror before taking yourself off to work, send a mental hug to 11,600 Canberra children who bathe, feed and carry a parent before joining the other youth at school today.
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17 Aug 10 | Squash is ready to make a successful leap into mainstream television, according to Squash Australia chief executive Gary O'Donnell.
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17 Aug 10 | England cricketer Graeme Swann said he was motoring off to buy screwdrivers to rescue a trapped cat when he was arrested for drink-driving, a court heard at the beginning of his trial on Monday.
17 Aug 10 | QUADE COOPER was silent, but his Wallabies teammates made it clear last night they would do all they could to convince the Test pivot to remain in rugby until at least next year's World Cup.
17 Aug 10 | The veteran Australian had his chance to win another PGA Championship, writes Peter Stone.
17 Aug 10 | IF A submission for an Australian ProTour team to start next year receives the green light, the squad will boldly aim to race in all of the three-week grand tours of France, Italy and Spain in its first season in the top division.
17 Aug 10 | NSWRL general manager Geoff Carr has confirmed a recent meeting with Ricky Stuart but insists no decision has been made on the Blues coaching job for next season.
17 Aug 10 | GLENN McGRATH has long since retired, but his spirit lives on in Ricky Ponting. When asked whether Australia could repeat their 5-0 drubbing of England from the last home Ashes series, the captain channelled McGrath, the most notorious Pom-baiter of the modern era, and replied: ''It's absolutely possible - there's no reason why not.''
17 Aug 10 | AFTER successfully hauling him through the court system in 2001, the late Gianni Versace's family know only too well there is no other private dick like Sydney's Frank Monte. Yesterday the bigwigs at David Jones discovered it, too.
17 Aug 10 | PARENTHOOD changes most people. Even, with some delay, Warwick Capper.
17 Aug 10 | POLICE fear the violent feud between the Chaouks and another Lebanese family could escalate if national bikie gangs become involved.
17 Aug 10 | There's talk again of a double dip recession. Pakistan is under water. And Mark Latham - who has not only jumped the shark but punched the shark and threatened to reverse park on the shark if anyone in Australia dares to vote properly - continues to bludgeon his way unwanted into our consciousness.
17 Aug 10 | THE Industrial Commission of NSW has recommended that Wagga Wagga Council take legal action for defamation over criticisms of its senior planners.
17 Aug 10 | PRIVATE certifiers have accused at least eight NSW councils of misusing their regulatory powers by slowing down the assessment of development applications if the councils were not appointed to issue the construction certificate.
17 Aug 10 | More than 50 leading economics professors and lecturers have entered the political fray by declaring in an open letter that Labor's stimulus program worked and the economic achievements of the Labor government should be ''recognised by the population''.
17 Aug 10 | Car manufacturers could miss out on money from the government's green car fund after Labor quietly slashed $200 million from the scheme. The cut, announced in a statement from Labor at the weekend on its spending commitments, follows a separate $200 million cut in the budget and will leave the fund well short of the initial $1.3 billion commitment.
17 Aug 10 | Julia Gillard has said there will be no tax on carbon while she leads the federal government.
17 Aug 10 | LABOR will spend an extra $21 million on care for soldiers wounded in Afghanistan, while the Coalition says it will guarantee free health and dental care to all Defence Force members and their dependants.
17 Aug 10 | Peter Dutton's attempt to jump to a safer seat counts against him among some voters, but others remain doggedly faithful, writes Nick O'Malley.
17 Aug 10 | TONY ABBOTT is on to something. Campaigning on the cost of living, he has repeatedly suggested it is climbing faster than the rate of inflation.
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