In hospital: Cartoonist Bill Leak
Cartoonist Bill Leak seriously injured in balcony fall
Cartoonist Bill Leak is being treated for serious head injuries in a Sydney hospital after falling from a balcony.
Leak was operated on overnight in the Royal North Shore Hospital after plunging about seven metres at a property at Mount White on the state's central coast yesterday.
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Fright night
Jenny Macklin says poor results in the ACT election and three NSW by-elections are not a reflection on federal Labor.
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Rudd pledges $2m as Johns kicks off depression walk
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has pledged an extra $2 million in funding for research into depression and bipolar disorder.
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Britt's body due home tonight
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Rudd treating Parliament with contempt: Turnbull
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Bligh scraps North Bank redevelopment plans
- Egyptian tycoon pleads not guilty to pop star's murder
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Obama tells 175,000 supporters: change is coming
- Last Titanic survivor sells mementos for $78k
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Five-star Chelsea dismantle Boro
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Rudd pledges $2m as Johns kicks off depression walk
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Cartoonist Bill Leak seriously injured in balcony fall
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Macklin shrugs off Labor's election fright night
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Lippy Thompson facing stint on sidelines
- Man dies after car hits wall, tree
- Man to face court over Bankstown brawl
- Man charged over armed robberies
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Labor suffers historic swings in NSW
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Malcolm Turnbull says Kevin Rudd treated Parliament with contempt for refusing to debate his $10.4 billion economy rescue package.
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NSW political correspondent Emma Griffiths analyses Labor's walloping in four state by-elections.
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First Cut: The NSW Liberals celebrate a historic victory in one seat and massive swings in three in the state by-elections.
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The NSW Premier says the historic swings are a message about the credibility of his predecessor, Morris Iemma.
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First Cut: India's Sachin Tendulkar has become the highest run scorer in the history of Test cricket.
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University students from across Australia have been competing in a national paper plane contest.
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The final US presidential debate has produced a new celebrity: Joe the Plumber.
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'It's a girl': Sydney's Taronga zoo gives four 'feisty' tasmanian devil joeys a health check.
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The brother and father of Melbourne backpacker Britt Lapthorne pay tribute to her in Croatia.
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A member of the NT intervention review panel says scrapping income management plans could have dire consequences.
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The first mosque in the ex-communist eastern part of Germany has opened amid protests.
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PM: Scientists worry that more and more people suffering spinal cord injuries and other conditions are travelling abroad for stem cell treatment.
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PM: PM's Mark Colvin speaks to Colombian vice president Francisco Santos about the country's growing cocaine trade problem.
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PM: ABC economics correspondent Stephen Long joins PM to analyse where the financial crisis is currently at, and what is likely from here.
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News Online: Three planks: Simon Santow reports for AM on a plan to bring the English curriculum back to basics.
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News Online: Extended interview: AM's Lyndal Curtis speaks to Ai Group's Heather Ridout ahead of the emergency business leaders' meeting.
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PM: AFP commissioner Mick Keelty says Australia needs to find a better way of curbing the demand for illegal drugs.
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News Audio: The small business sector of the economy is already being squeezed by the tighter credit conditions.
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News Audio: AMP chief economist Shane Oliver says the US slowdown is already hitting China and emerging economies.
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AM: Melbourne's Age newspaper is reporting that one covert officer has posed as a vegan and left wing activist.
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PM: The ABC's Sabra Lane gets a look inside the Australian Defence Force's 'counter-IED taskforce' in the Middle East.
Features and Analysis
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Market volatility
With credit markets still frozen over, global share prices continue to fluctuate amid widespread uncertainty.
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Chloe's Contest
Longboarders will converge on Sydney's Bondi Beach this Sunday to honour a young girl killed in the Bali bombings.
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Toowoomba taps in
Toowoomba will become the first major urban centre to draw its drinking water from the Great Artesian Basin.
Southern battleground
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'Dialogue of the deaf'
Morgan Tsvangirai says he hopes Zimbabwe power deal can work, but says Robert Mugabe does not want to negotiate.
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Obama takes the lead in Florida
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Dogs take centre stage for feel-good Croatian play
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Googling good for geriatrics
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Evangelicals face up to Ahmadinejad
Whether we like it or not, the Bali bombers are celebrities in Indonesia and within their island prison, they are powerful and influential figures. More
Dogs on stage
Sport
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Hussey charged with rescuing Aussies
Australia will be banking on middle order rock Michael Hussey to help save the tourists from a precarious first innings position on the third day of the second Test in Mohali.
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Lippy Thompson facing stint on sidelines
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Rudd pledges $2m as Johns kicks off depression walk
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Five-star Chelsea dismantle Boro
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Nadal and Federer crash out in Madrid
Ryan O'Keefe's whereabouts in the 2009 AFL season looks to be an even-money bet between Sydney or Windy Hill. More
Godolphin claim Caulfield Cup
Entertainment
- Nelly Furtado married in secret
- Egyptian tycoon pleads not guilty to pop star's murder
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Cartoonist Bill Leak seriously injured in balcony fall
- 'Millionaire' heads to Afghanistan
The newcomers are going head to head with some of Australia's music stalwarts tonight at the 22nd ARIA awards. More
With a total of 41 on-screen corpses throughout, Rodriguez's quirky, blood-smattered, comic-inspired offering is a burger with the lot - with some extra cheese and gore. More
Newcomers night?
Offbeat
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Stayin' Alive could save your life: doctors
US doctors have found the Bee Gees' 1977 disco anthem Stayin' Alive provides an ideal beat to follow while performing chest compressions as part of CPR on a heart attack victim.
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd walks with former rugby league player Andrew Johns and his son Samuel on the first leg of a charity walk, Newcastle, October 19, 2008. Johns was setting off on the start of a six-day mental health charity walk from Newcastle to Sydney.
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TV tirade
Ray Martin has criticised commercial TV networks, arguing they have failed to support journalism.
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Washed up
Marine scientists say the Pacific Ocean is facing ecological peril.
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The Shallow End
Box or Bust
Have a read of what critics are saying about movies hitting cinemas this week.
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Entertainment
'Music is what I am'
Kenny Rogers has no desire to buy an RV and hit the road like all the other grey nomads.
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Watch
'It's a girl'
Sydney's Taronga zoo gives four 'feisty' tasmanian devil joeys a health check.
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Feature
Pooch's play
Canine-loving theatregoers in Croatia can take the play's stars home with them.
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Opinion
Left right out
Forget ideology and social change; Australia's classrooms need to go back to basics.
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Sunday:- 2008 ARIA Awards - Sydney
- Britt Lapthorne's body expected to arrive home - Melbourne
- AMA launch young doctors survey - Canberra
- Coolangatta Gold ironman race - Gold Coast.
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India v Australia
Stumps: AUS 4/102 (40.5), IND 469
| 1st Innings - India | 10/469 |
| 1st Innings - Australia | 4/102 |
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Hussey, MEK | 37* |
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Watson, SR | 0* |
Bangladesh v New Zealand
Stumps Day 2: NZL 9/155 (60.3), BAN 245
Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull on the Government’s response to the financial crisis. Also, results of the ACT election and NSW by-elections.
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