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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.

Teacher Anna Blackburn was warned by a colleague that her affair with a student "would come back to haunt her".

A sleazy minister, a corrupt official, a greedy bureaucrat. Welcome to NSW.

John Steffensen might not run at the Commonwealth Games because he is still feuding with Athletics Australia.

Opposition Leader still confident despite Treasury finding a "black hole" of at least $7 billion.

One of the key rural independent MPs says he is now suspicious of the Coalition after the Treasury uncovered a multi billion dollar "black hole" in their election costings.

New book claims that what men want is simple: more sex, writes Paul Sheehan.

In a single day, we saw a snapshot of the best and the worst of federal Labor over the past three years. There was a first-class economic outcome, juxtaposed with dubious political judgment.

THE Coalition is wrangling with Treasury over discrepancies in its policy costings believed to total up to $10.6 billion.

There's a Nano model with a touch screen, while there's also a smaller version of Apple TV.

HE DOESN'T mention cricket, or Australia as a nation. But Tony Blair lists several Australians among his greatest influences and best mates.

THE friendship between Tony Blair and George W. Bush has long been the source of fierce criticism and vicarious interest in Europe, and the memoir does not fail to deliver.

A sleazy minister, a corrupt official, a greedy bureaucrat. Welcome to NSW.

THE state government has ordered an internal inquiry into the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority and suspended a consultant who once worked as an authority executive after damaging revelations about the organisation's conduct.

The former MFS boss Michael King has revealed how the pressure to refinance a $250 million debt paralysed him into inaction, writes Michael Evans.