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Another scandal envelops NSW Labor as minister receives upgrades from powerful Sydney property barons.

Man whose question led to outrage against now-ousted Labor MP admits lie about his disabled son.

THE controversial betting plunge on the Cowboys-Bulldogs encounter in round 24 was not confined to NSW. The Herald has learnt that apart from TAB Sportsbet and other bookmakers, most of the other bets on the North Queensland penalty goal to open the scoring were placed through UNiTAB in Queensland.

TONY ABBOTT has been poked in the eye by his own budget costings and his eagerness to spend - the same costings that, when the Coalition added them up, helped him successfully flay Labor for profligacy and waste during the election campaign.

Julia Gillard is two seats away from forming a minority government.

THE COALITION made four kinds of mistakes in its costings according to the Treasury; the understandable, the inexcusable, the inexplicable, and those resulting from a failure to comprehend the nature of the process.

Victoria Longley, 1960-2010.

IT HAS been a long, long time since a Brisbane Broncos side has been so universally declared a lost cause. One might have to cast their mind back as far as 1991, the last time Brisbane failed to reach the finals, to recall a time so little hope has been held out for the Broncos.

Just what the glamorous Mrs Ron Medich, 20 years his junior, did to frighten her husband remains a mystery.

Property tycoon Ron Medich withdraws his application for an AVO against his wife.

These sandstone faces have been staring at passers-by for a century and a half.

It's contemporary painting done the old school way, writes Steve Meacham.

Julia Gillard is two seats away from forming a minority government.

TONY ABBOTT has been poked in the eye by his own budget costings and his eagerness to spend - the same costings that, when the Coalition added them up, helped him successfully flay Labor for profligacy and waste during the election campaign.

THE controversial betting plunge on the Cowboys-Bulldogs encounter in round 24 was not confined to NSW. The Herald has learnt that apart from TAB Sportsbet and other bookmakers, most of the other bets on the North Queensland penalty goal to open the scoring were placed through UNiTAB in Queensland.

By 9.20pm tonight, the rugby league career of Israel Folau could be over.

JULIA GILLARD won a vital advantage yesterday and is tantalisingly close to power, but any outcome is still possible as the reels keeping spinning on the poker machine of Australian democracy.

Here's why Tony Abbott says his costings will save $11.5 billion but Treasury says it's only $863 million.

The "forbidden" food that has nutritionists raving about its anti-cancer properties.

Tony Blair exposes ''surreal and utterly freaky'' royal family in his biography.