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www.smh.com.au - News Index for 26/12/2009


National

School fees hit record highs

New light on where money goes

Catholics divided in the House

Politics and religion: crossed paths

Santa showers gifts on grateful farmers

Prisoners hope to find a saviour in court

Never so good

Pharmacies given a bitter pill to swallow

Teenager drowns after being caught in rip at Central Coast beach

Queen and Rudd salute the troops and battlers

Thanks, you shouldn't have …

Nothing beats Boxing Day trip to the movies

Military personnel serving overseas send greetings

The Father of Australia

Man shot by police during neighbourhood dispute dies in hospital

Need, not judgment, on our city's streets

Taxi industry puts brakes on licence reforms

Girls make a plumb job of taking up the tools

Incoming alerts

Ambulance chiefs still failing to stop bullying by officers

Mistake gives burglar a get-out-of-jail-early card

Look who's back in town

World

Al-Qaeda attack foiled

Strong quake hits off Indonesian island

Clogged Philippine volcano could burst: expert

Palestinian PM calls Israeli raids dangerous escalation

First family goes troppo

Woman wore same clothes in 2008 failed bid to get to Pope

Brittany a 'bright light that lit the world'

Thousands stranded as snow, ice storms lash US

Love leads our Kylie to Spain

Trillions to fix economy

Marriage loses Sheen: Charlie on domestic violence charge

Sport

Alfa shows depleted supermaxi fleet the way south

Battle of the giants on a very grey day

Race against time battle too much for Etihad

Glory thump hapless Jets

Dellacqua to play Brisbane International

Gold Coast thrash Roar in Qld derby

Gold Coast thrash Roar

Dropped catches don't help Pakistan

Wharington talking up boat despite flop

Watson, Katich denied as Aussies pile on runs

Bushrangers call in Kiwi batsman Taylor

AFL could suspend Carlton players

Scarlett Runner wins Cock of the Bay

Aloisi hopes for dream end at Sydney FC

Alfa pips Wild Oats to heads as Sydney to Hobart begins

Richards predicts mind bending race

Weather puts paid to sprintcar event

Rogowska awarded Hobart wildcard

Watson, Katich denied as Aussies pile on runs

Watson, Katich keep Aussies in command

Fury wary of Muscat's sway with referees

Pacquiao's Christmas gift to Mayweather - a lawsuit

Big three duelling in Sydney to Hobart

Will it be a Boxing Day test for Clarke?

Australia must forget Perth and play with passion, not petulance

Ponting powers into contention

Plucked from obscurity, Smith already has Pakistan bamboozled

The night our Cathy lit up the nation

Slade ready to unleash 'beast' before Leopard changes spots forever

When a game of football really was more important than life and death

Etihad Stadium still in the running to start race

Jones gives Green a bad wrap

New Saint investigated

Comeback king Cummings prepares for another Summer Cup dynasty

Love of the game: no chance of Buckley slowing down just yet

Double-take as twins parade their colours

Who'll be fastest to Hobart? The answer, friends, is blowin' in the wind

The day the Queen of Diamonds smiled upon me in Vegas

A year of ranting and raving

Give Watson a break and join great escape

Opinion

On holidays, so many things can go wrong

Many happy returns, annual bonuses … and other taxing issues

Lax replica laws let designer fakes become part of the furniture

Great oratory is a beautiful thing, then there is the rest …

Did Jesus make us fat and greedy?

The night before Christmas

Christmas, curry and many faiths

You wouldn't read about it

2009: a shopping odyssey

Labor's good intentions fail to guarantee jobs for youth

Another bastard for the colonies

Sharp as a Christmas card lawyer

Picking through the curate's egg laid in Copenhagen

Rudd's green credentials a lot of hot air

Cool heads needed now the heat is on

Another year of failed resolutions

Dear God, please help me out here

Christmas catch-ups

To preserve democracy, political donations must be limited

A city subtracted

We need a rational debate on MPs' pay

Light-bulb moments

Another year of living dangerously

It's time McKew outgrew ministerial L-plates

Man in red loves ginger bred

Entertainment

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www.smh.com.au - News Index for 26/12/2009


Entertainment

Rage against the Cowell Machine

Seduced by the soundtrack

Duo twists acoustic sound

Time to party

A swag of singing turkeys to drive you crackers

Nanna from heaven: a formula for success

Shankar resented guru tag and stoned, angry bands

Sofa, so good: Frenzy bring a frisson of fun to Zappa

Never mind the music, check out these icons

Meredith streaks ahead

Karaoke keeps porn industry humming

50 Cent wants Susan Boyle

Getting by with a little help from his friends

Hit the lights and hold the porn stars

Mesrine: Killer instinct and Mesrine: Public enemy no.1

Did you hear about the Morgans?

Sharks and toads burst into life in 3D

Ogles and goggles: life in a new dimension

Recorders included in TV ratings

Kyle and Jackie O under 'exploitation' rule

A fond farewell

Liebmann back where he started from

Shocks for top jocks as big changes sweep the airwaves

That was the year that was

Mane event for TV volunteers

There's no place like home

Steve Price quits 2UE

A network that delivers the goods

Bad review was 'entirely defensible'

Meal kept repeating

Deep sea dining

Pressure spices up contest

Australian ham, I am

Around the world in cake

Baklava

Dish it up

Publishers, authors have words over e-books

Doco sets out bottom line on history

Bad sex: look what's won the award

Banned Egyptian writer fights for comic relief

Miserablist Larkin loved his mum and dad after all

Cruel but kind verdict on French fumblings

How do you make a library sexy?

The Bard by any other name

Family swap triggers a memoir scandal

Cries of wolf over winning photo

No kidding, sometimes it's fun to be childish

Rapid-fire media satire pillories the panel shows

Newtown gets a cutting-edge fringe

A violent and bleak Oedipus just fine for Latin lovers

Opera has the last shout as Boheme hits the boozer

Church campaign halts Compass sequel

Look, up in the sky - it's Festival First Night

Futures in doubt with grant wait

Dealers not sold on artists' small brush with fortune

US legal sensation to be played on a Sydney stage

Queening it over the locals

Big-hearted turn takes Lemon abroad

Dunlop's skills both opened and closed doors


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