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  • Getready for high-riseSydney | Page 1
    SYDNEY will be reinvented as a high-density metropolis serviced by mass-transit subways under a transport blueprint being developed by senior state and federal...
  • Israeli troopsmove on Gaza, five children killed | Page 1
    ISRAELI forces inched closer to central Gaza City yesterday as Hamas fighters tried to lure them into a dangerous urban conflict where they would be more...
  • Mill on full steam but for funds | Page 2
    THE federal Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, has allowed the forestry company Gunns to go ahead with construction of its controversial Tasmanian pulp mill,...
  • Jane would have been tickled pink by fans’ fashion sense | Page 3
    THE Sydney Cricket Ground was bathed in pink yesterday for the third cricket test against South Africa, with fans sporting pink clothing and matching faces to...
  • Unwanted kittens: season of heartbreak at RSPCA | Page 3
    TEN kittens on average are being put down every day at the RSPCA, as owners surrender their new pets at alarming rates. Since December more than 900 cats and...
  • Students see scales of justice in baccalaureate | Page 5
    SOME students are opting for the International Baccalaureate instead of the Higher School Certificate to avoid having their marks in humanities subjects scaled...
  • Motorist in distress chanced on boy’s shooting | Page 5
    ONE moment Richard West was borrowing Josef Cruickshank’s mobile phone, the next he was trying to save his life. Broken down near a semirural property in...
  • Wrong blurb can ruin a novel’s future | Page 7
    IT IS a salutary lesson for a firsttime novelist: Be careful who you get to provide the glowing endorsement to splash across the cover. That is the mistake...
  • Infernal bickering goes aroundin circles | Page 8
    IN THE days before his death, late in 2004, Yasser Arafat looked back in time and assessed his people’s forlorn history. ‘‘One hundred and seven years after...
  • Rocket landedmetres fromwhere I sat | Page 8
    TO BE in the path of a Qassam rocket can be unnerving to say the least. Sitting at a coffee shop in Sderot yesterday morning about 5 kilometres from the Gaza...
  • Sarkozy leads new flurry of diplomacy | Page 9
    THE French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, was due to arrive in Jerusalem last night with a highranking European Union delegation as the EU’s foreign policy chief,...
  • Obama’smanwithdraws after scandal | Page 9
    THE president-elect, Barack Obama, has moved to cut short any further ethical controversies surrounding his yet-to-besworn-in administration by accepting the...
  • French ‘poet of couture’ fathered safari suit | Page 12
    FOR better or for worse Ted Lapidus was the fashion designer who popularised the safari jacket in the 1960s. He also brought the unisex look to the catwalk,...
  • Grammar drop-out drove aVauxhall – andATMrevolution | Page 12
    IN APRIL 1929 the headmaster at Caulfield Grammar School announced at assembly: ‘‘Twycross has a job in the bank.’’ There was a loud cheer and the boy went...
  • Art do after saying ‘I do’ | Page 14
    While shemaynot yet be a household name, the painter no struggling artist. In 2006 she won Australia’s richest art prize when her painting of a pair of lips...

FRONT PAGE  
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  • Getready for high-riseSydney | Page 1
    SYDNEY will be reinvented as a high-density metropolis serviced by mass-transit subways under a transport blueprint being developed by senior state and federal...
  • Go west – it will take only 27 minutes fromthe city | Page 1
    THErevolutionary $8.1 billion West Metro will transport up to 30,000 people an hour from Parramatta to theCBDin less than 27 minutes, stopping at nine...
  • Israeli troopsmove on Gaza, five children killed | Page 1
    ISRAELI forces inched closer to central Gaza City yesterday as Hamas fighters tried to lure them into a dangerous urban conflict where they would be more...

NEWS  
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  • Mill on full steam but for funds | Page 2
    THE federal Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, has allowed the forestry company Gunns to go ahead with construction of its controversial Tasmanian pulp mill,...
  • If you think it’s hot now, wait until next year | Page 2
    NSW was bracing for a heatwave today as the Australian Bureau of Meteorology published its annual report showing last year to be one of the hottest on record...
  • At last a decision, of sorts | Page 2
    PETER GARRETT looked uncharacteristically pleased as he announced his decision to defer a decision about the environmental impact of the Tasmanian pulp mill...
  • Cash for ruminant: cows get the candy | Page 2
    AN INNOVATIVE sugar cane factory, expected to generate millions in export dollars and rejuvenate the industry, is back on track after the Federal Government...
  • Clock starts ticking on 10- minute bar rule | Page 3
    THE hotel industry is hopeful that the Government is going to overturn a controversial new rule designed to slow down drinkers, under which 48 pubs and clubs...
  • Jane would have been tickled pink by fans’ fashion sense | Page 3
    THE Sydney Cricket Ground was bathed in pink yesterday for the third cricket test against South Africa, with fans sporting pink clothing and matching faces to...
  • Unwanted kittens: season of heartbreak at RSPCA | Page 3
    TEN kittens on average are being put down every day at the RSPCA, as owners surrender their new pets at alarming rates. Since December more than 900 cats and...
  • ‘Inaccurate’ rocket killed Australian soldier | Page 3
    AN AUSTRALIAN soldier has been killed in Afghanistan by a rocket fired by the Taliban at a southern base. The soldier – the eighth Australian fatality of the...
  • Safety fears shut down Domain bus runs | Page 3
    THE State Transit Authority has had to stop bus services to the Domain due to safety concerns for their drivers. The three services – the 461, 480 and 483 –...
  • Faulty circuits in the brainmay cause binge eating, scientists suggest | Page 3
    WOMEN with bulimia nervosa may binge eat because the brain circuits responsible for regulating their behaviour do not work properly, a new study...
  • Backyard blissmay soonbe a memory | Page 4
    THERE are two Sydneys of the future. In one we build on empty paddocks 45 kilometres from the CBD, where workers wake before dawn to spend hours in traffic...
  • Ku-ring-gaimakeover amodel display | Page 4
    A RADICAL reshaping of Sydney’s Parramatta Road being considered by the State Government could be modelled on plans for Westfield-style shopping malls and ‘‘...
  • RTA backs down on e-tags formotorcyclists | Page 5
    THE Roads and Traffic Authority has all but admitted the failure of e-tags – at least for tolling motorcyclists and scooter riders. Motorcyclists with an RTA...
  • Students see scales of justice in baccalaureate | Page 5
    SOME students are opting for the International Baccalaureate instead of the Higher School Certificate to avoid having their marks in humanities subjects scaled...
  • Body in creek | Page 5
    Police believe they have found the body of a 40-year-old Cabramattamanwho fell from the Hawkesbury River bridge at Brooklyn onNewYear’s Eve. The body was found...

WORLD  
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  • Infernal bickering goes aroundin circles | Page 8
    IN THE days before his death, late in 2004, Yasser Arafat looked back in time and assessed his people’s forlorn history. ‘‘One hundred and seven years after...
  • Stench in the air: scant resources stretched to exhaustion | Page 8
    FIDA BASAL, 20, was not there when the missile struck her uncle’s house the day after Israel began its ground invasion of Gaza. But her sister, Hanin, 18,...
  • Rocket landedmetres fromwhere I sat | Page 8
    TO BE in the path of a Qassam rocket can be unnerving to say the least. Sitting at a coffee shop in Sderot yesterday morning about 5 kilometres from the Gaza...
  • Israel wary of second front againstHezbollah | Page 8
    ISRAEL’S director of military intelligence, Major-General Amos Yadlin, warned yesterday of the possibility that the Lebanese paramilitary force, Hezbollah,...
  • Sarkozy leads new flurry of diplomacy | Page 9
    THE French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, was due to arrive in Jerusalem last night with a highranking European Union delegation as the EU’s foreign policy chief,...
  • Australian Jews protest against Israel’s action | Page 9
    MORE than 100 Australian Jews, including two award-winning novelists and a former federal cabinet minister, have signed a statement condemning Israel’s siege...
  • Obama’smanwithdraws after scandal | Page 9
    THE president-elect, Barack Obama, has moved to cut short any further ethical controversies surrounding his yet-to-besworn-in administration by accepting the...
  • Journalists freed after 40 days kept in caves | Page 9
    A BRITISH journalist and a Spanish photographer kidnapped in Somalia have been released after being held in a series of caves for 40 days. Colin Freeman and...
  • Who’s your daddy? asks France | Page 9
    PAPARAZZI were camped outside an exclusive Paris maternity clinic yesterday after the French Justice Minister, Rachida Dati, gave birth to a girl and...

OPINION& LETTERS  
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  • Idiots caught on boundary | Page 10
    I sat with my parents for the entirety of day two at the cricket and was utterly bemused at the barbaric behaviour: beer snakes, Mexican waves, a failed...
  • The promise of a newmetro | Page 10
    GIVEN Sydney’s development is girt by sea, mountains and national parks, the proposed underground West Metro linking Paramatta to the city and the proposed CBD...
  • Israel crosses the line | Page 10
    BY LAUNCHING a land invasion of the Gaza Strip Israel risks snatching a public relations defeat, and possibly a military one, from the jaws of victory....
  • Debate is litmus test: democracy in the Bear Pit is ailing | Page 10
    Ever since representative government was introduced in NSW more than 150 years ago the Parliament has existed for three reasons: to make laws for peace,...
  • Can Middle East suffering be measured in numbers? | Page 10
    When the Soviet Union attacked Chechnya, then proceeded to destroy its capital, Grozny, killing at least 50,000 Chechen civilians, where were the thousands of...
  • We rob the poor to save the rich from themselves | Page 10
    Several Herald columnists over the past few days have been spreading the idea that to lessen the unemployment effects of the recession, workers should be...
  • Billions go up in joke | Page 10
    $2.4 billion is a lot of money to fritter away on advertisements and consultants (‘‘Labor runs up $2.4b bill on ads, fees,’’ January 5). And what does NSW have...
  • Boozy blood hits the floor | Page 10
    In reference to the front-page picture of a young bar patron holding a sign that reads ‘‘Who says I can’t drink responsibly?’’ Based on the irrefutable...
  • Vincentian morality | Page 10
    St Vinnies had better come up with a sensibly moral response to David Marr’s article (‘‘St Vinnies puts the cold into charity’’, January 3-4) if it wants to...
  • Obstetric obstruction | Page 10
    Further to Julie Robotham’s article (‘‘Public hospitals versus private: the painful truth about childbirth’’, January 3): what about the stranglehold...


 

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