29/08/2008 | A defiant Morris Iemma will sell parts of NSW's electricity assets under a proposal that does not require Parliament's approval.
29/08/2008 | CLYDE RATHBONE has admitted that he was "playing on one leg" from 2005-06 and should not have been picked for the Wallabies.
29/08/2008 | It's all hush-hush at the moment, but expect a strong push from within the Wallabies camp to convince the Australian Rugby Union of the merits of allowing overseas-based players to appear for the national team on long overseas tours.
29/08/2008 | THE Wallabies are hoping the second wind will be enough for them to achieve a historical feat against the Springboks at Ellis Park on Saturday.
29/08/2008 | As the Rocky Elsom judicial farce continued, the Wallabies were forced to train with two different forward combinations at their final training session late last night while awaiting a decision on whether their backrower had won his appeal and could play against the Springboks on Saturday.
29/08/2008 | "SOAP opera," an AFL chief once informed me, "is about the only thing rugby league does better than us" - a reference to the daily column inches and air time devoted to dramas in the codes.
29/08/2008 | JUST minutes after watching his side turn in their best display of an impressive 2008 NRL season last Friday night, Cronulla coach Ricky Stuart sat alongside skipper Paul Gallen and Greg Bird and talked about the positive feeling within the Sharks camp.
29/08/2008 | THE girlfriend of Cronulla rugby league star Greg Bird says her immediate concern is to recover from an eye injury and not clear the air about the night he allegedly hit her with a glass.
29/08/2008 | Graffiti painters may like leaving an elaborate signature on their creations, but now the chemical signature of the paint may prove their undoing.
29/08/2008 | Chris Guccione's confidence is high - and it needs to be.
29/08/2008 | WELL-TRAVELLED and injury plagued five-year-old Kiloton debuts for trainer Tim Martin in the opening race at Rosehill on Saturday while former promising stable representative Raheeb lines up as a riva...
29/08/2008 | John Messara told an enthusiastic crowd at Arrowfield Stud in Scone on Monday to expect "The King" to make a major comeback to the top of the Australian stallions' chart.
The King, bet...
29/08/2008 | ANY chance of full-on power privatisation died yesterday, with the Opposition refusing to give the Government the support it needed to get the legislation through Parliament.
29/08/2008 | THE first time Emily Chapman tried to end her life in Cumberland Hospital's psychiatric unit, she saved herself at the last minute by pressing the emergency button. But the response she received was far from compassionate.
29/08/2008 | THE MAIL Universal Colours has hit his straps since getting to the middle-distance events. He was a solid winner at Rosehill three starts back and has since finished second there and at Kembla Grange last time out when he flashed to the line. With Rod Quinn aboard again, Universal Colours can win the third event at Rosehill on Saturday.
29/08/2008 | JOCKEY-ROOM go-to man Peter Robl is set to play giant-killer again at Rosehill on Saturday.
The Benalla boy has called Sydney home for the past eight months, and Hall of Fame trainers Bart Cumming...
29/08/2008 | THE Federal Government is threatening to axe nearly one million individual dental services under its new program unless the Opposition gives way in the Senate and votes down the existing Medicare dental scheme for the chronically ill.
29/08/2008 | THE regally bred dam of untapped colt Dreamscape now resides in the Philippines, but Ashikaga's mother Tropical Dancer is roaming around Mudgee.
The tale of Gooree Stud's two producers giv...
29/08/2008 | Dr Geoff Chapman maintains he was offered $100,000 by John Messara to deter Messara's son, Paul, from a career training racehorses. Perhaps the Doc was having, as we say in the trade, a quiet run, but it was one of the few commissions from which he didn't get favourable results.
29/08/2008 | Gai Waterhouse: Enjoyed a great day at Warwick Farm last weekend when leading in four winners and is out to repeat the effort at Rosehill on Saturday. Waterhouse saddles up the unbeaten Ashikaga in t...