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We'll charge more, says Moroney
In the biggest anti-terrorist operation in Australian history, the
nation's security forces have seized weapons and a quantity of
chemicals similar to those used to make the London Underground
bombs, claiming they have foiled an "imminent" attack.
Shot man appeared on Home and Away
The suspected terrorist shot by police in a Sydney street yesterday was an actor who appeared on the TV soap Home and Away.
Months of watching pay off as police swoop in two cities
The five young men came to court angry and left furious. It was never going to be a good idea to get in their way.
- Arrested: a man apart who fought to stay in Australia
- Purchase of chemicals key to raids
- Hours of uncertainty end with no sign of accused
- Children were raid bystanders
- Muslim leaders fear vilification
- PM, police at odds over use of new laws
- Guns were taken away before raid: witness
- Hot on the trail
- Presumed innocence lost in day of rhetoric
- Graphic: Swoop in Sydney
- Graphics: Melbourne arrests
- Video: Cameraman attacked outside court
- Video: Infrared footage
- Gallery: Raids foil terrorist plot
- Andrew West: It's now a question of trust
Liberal MP still unhappy with welfare-work plan
The Federal Government's new welfare-to-work rules requiring single parents with children aged between six and eight to look for a job were opposed yesterday in a Coalition party meeting.
Echoes of Cross City in new deals
No new roads can be built - or existing routes expanded - for 34
years in a corridor along the 40 kilometres of the city's next
toll-road, the Westlink M7, according to documents tabled yesterday
in State Parliament.
Evacuation launched as worst flood in 50 years threatens towns
Emergency workers began evacuating an entire town yesterday after a day of torrential rain across much of NSW triggered one of the Central West's worst floods in 50 years. Rain and hail is also feared to have flattened many crops in the region.
Critical patients were left alone, inquest told
A picture has emerged of harassed nurses working in chaos during an
inquest into the death of a woman in the toilet of a hospital
waiting room.
Back from the dead to face charges
Four years after the state coroner pronounced him dead, flamboyant millionaire businessman Harry Gordon has appeared in court, charged over a $3.5 million life insurance swindle.
High achiever: court's female justice
When her grandmother was appointed to the High Court, Hannah Hains had one question.
Senate inquiry on work laws to be short and tight
Worried the Senate committee investigation of its workplace relations overhaul could drift beyond its control, the Howard Government wants the inquiry reduced to a five-day debate between expert panels arguing opposite views.
Correction
Yesterday's article "Rumours rife again, in the best interests of Costello and other discontents" incorrectly described Jim Lloyd, the federal Minister for Local Government, Territories and Roads, as a member of the National Party. He is a Liberal.
