Former indigenous affairs minister Mal Brough takes a plunge with Tiwi College students yesterday. Picture: Amos Aikman
Australia's extreme queen, halfpipe snowboarder Torah Bright, after winning Winter Olympic gold in Vancouver Picture: Reuters
Glenn Stevens says rates will have to rise to deal with the challenges of an expanding economy. Picture: Ray Strange
Smoke billows from a seven-storey building in Austin, Texas, housing a tax office. Picture: AP
Peter Garrett is under pressure from the opposition to resign over the housing insulation program. Picture: Alan Pryke
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Tiger Woods makes 14-minute apology
9:47AM James Bone A DOWNCAST and sometimes angry Tiger Woods made a rambling apology to friends, fans and his absent wife today.
Insulation scams hit 160,000
11:49PM KEVIN Rudd was standing by Environment Minister Peter Garrett last night after the government scrapped its botched $2.45 billion insulation scheme.
Mary's a saint, Pope announces
Lanai Vasek and Peter Wilson AUSTRALIA finally has its first saint, following the announcement of the canonisation of Mother Mary MacKillop by Pope Benedict XVI in Vatican City last night.
Stevens warns of rate rises, defends policy
David Uren, Economics correspondent GLENN Stevens has strongly defended the Reserve Bank's inflation-targeting regime and warned that further rate rises will be needed.
We'll take Japan to court: PM
Peter Alford and Matthew Franklin KEVIN Rudd has vowed to take Japan to the International Court of Justice if it doesn't agree by November to stop Antarctic whaling
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Wall Street rises for a fourth day
9:10AM Kristina Peterson US stocks rose for a fourth straight session today as investors focused on the economic optimism underpinning the Fed's rate decision.
$A rebounds as risk appetites return
11:42AM Fabio Alves THE Australian dollar rebounded today as worries eased over the Fed’s discount rate hike, helping risk appetites to improve.
Germany investigates BHP-Rio venture
8:48AM Jan Hromadko and Alex MacDonald GERMANY'S cartel office has launched a probe into the planned iron ore joint venture between miners BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto.
China slams Obama on Dalai Lama talks
Brad Norington, Washington correspondent CHINA has launched a diplomatic assault on the US, saying Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama in Washington has seriously harmed relations.
Tiger Woods makes 14-minute apology
9:47AM James Bone A DOWNCAST and sometimes angry Tiger Woods made a rambling apology to friends, fans and his absent wife today.
The shovel's ready, Prime Minister
CUT & PASTE The government's response to the global financial crisis stimulates trouble in spades
Fraser book attacks Howard 'mythology'
Casmeron Stewart MALCOLM Fraser has sought to recast his political legacy by attacking the "mythology" that he was an opponent of financial reform.
Curse of the upwardly mobile
Susan Kurosawa LOUNGE has heard that iPhones make perfect toast and press your pants, which would be a fine thing.
GadgetGear Nintendo wins battle against game pirates
GAMING giant Nintendo has won a legal battle against a manufacturer of game copying devices.
Woods mea culpa biggest since Clinton
TIGER Woods's apology was the biggest globally televised mea culpa since former US President Bill Clinton's Monica Lewinsky confession.
Toad's leg sausage a recipe for survival in the wild
Bernard Lane SURPRISE bags: scientists are tinkering with a recipe for sausages that will make native cats sick -- and perhaps save them from extinction.
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No chance of early election
PETER Garrett is finished as a minister. He might keep his job out of political expediency but he has lost any credibility and he should be sacked.
Inflation and surplus are key to economy
GLENN Stevens has signalled the Reserve Bank's determination to entrench low inflation by lifting interest rates in advance of the developed world.
Abbott's risky attack on Labor's strengths
The Liberal leader is following his warrior's instincts to the bitter end
One more modem and the whole thing crashes
Attacking the Rudd government NBN plans may not spark the desired result for the opposition, writes Andrew Colley
Beijing learns not to hold back
THE gargantuan Chinese propaganda machine has learned not to shilly-shally, writes Michael Sainsbury
O'Connor's talent wasted at fullback
The Force's best back, James O'Connor, should be playing at five-eighth
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Bird in the hand
SOMETIMES Strewth thinks back to the days when Tony Abbott's nether regions didn't have such a starring role on the public stage.
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