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Voters want independents to go Labor: poll

PHILLIP COOREY Voters would rather the three country independents side with Julia Gillard and form a minority government than join Tony Abbott and the Coalition, a new poll finds.

• Rudd may be Gillard's secret weapon

Wilkie defends rejecting $1 billion hospital offer

No election brake on soaring car sales

Talk continues over parliamentary reform

Pearson lambasts Labor's failure to 'articulate its reason for being'

Fed up with Sussex St

HEATH ASTON The battle for John Della Bosca's upper house seat has come down to grandmother versus the machine - the ALP machine, that is.

Public's help sought over murder cases

Newlyweds' baby touches down in helicopter

Bean counters tip coffee rise

Firebrand sheikh is back preaching

Foreign policy will be tough: Beazley

JESSICA WRIGHT Exclusive: Former Labor leader Kim Beazley weighs into the hung parliament debate.

• Independents speak up for a better parliament

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Legal challenge to school chaplains

Got a beef with food tasting like deja moo?

It takes two to produce problems of conception

Shoe, eggs hurled at ex-British PM Blair

Anti-war campaigners staged a protest against former British prime minister Tony Blair as he arrived at a Dublin television studio for an interview about his autobiography, police said.

Air crash survivors urge trapped miners on This article contains a video that will play automatically.

Kim to anoint heir

Mum's the word on Woo's great inspiration

Jokers sentenced

Revealed: execs reap new bonus bonanza

News Corp COO Chase Carey, has not only taken over the duties of his predecessor, Peter Chernin, he's taken on the mantle of best-rewarded executive with $32m package.

• Winners and losers as S&P rebalances

Wall Street US stocks rally as jobs data spurs optimism

UBS's 'cash lock-up' hurt client, court told

Telstra reverts to customer focus

Ian Verrender Don't bet the house on a property price bubble bursting

Annette Sampson Women facing an uncomfortable future in retirement

Paddy Manning Risks are too high for accidents

Marcus Padley Girls get most capital out of desperate dad

It's a brave man who says no to $1b

MICHELLE GRATTAN The Tasmanian was promised the hospital he wanted, so why did he opt to back Julia Gillard?

Paul Daley Moving forward with that risky Misterabbit

Andrew Daddo How do I love thee, pa? Let me paint you a picture ...

Simon Webster Time for dad to admit he's a socks maniac

Gretel Killeen Personal matter that is everyone's business

Google CEO skewered in giant Times Square ad

A privacy group continues to hound Google's chief over privacy issues by screening a satirical video in New York's Times Square.

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Recalled Toshiba laptops: No problems in Australia

Justice is seen to be done, live

Malaysian web crackdown

Telstra reverts to customer focus

Through a glass, darkly

In two wine regions as different as chalk and clay, Kendall Hill offers a hedonist's guide to Burgundy and Bordeaux.

Milestones Let the good times roll

New York Empire of superheroes

South Africa Roll-call at Heroes' Acre

Blue Mountains How green is our valley

The price of being a P-plater

STEPHEN OTTLEY Insurance company policy is discouraging young drivers from driving safer cars.

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Local hero: Holden's new hatch 19

Best used convertibles under $30,000 2

First drive: Peugeot RCZ 5

Poms power up Porsche rival 17

Cayless' farewell party falls flat

ADRIAN PROSZENKO A damp half empty stadium was no way to send out a warrior like Nathan Cayless.

• I'll be back: Mateo
• Inglis eyes return to Storm
• Finals a high for the Tigers
• Panther power
• Roosters still laughing

A-League Sydney, winless champions, prop up the table

Tennis Sam: I can go a very long way

League 'I'm staying put' - Gallop plans to lead commission

Barry Hall One drug strike and you should be out