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Toothless Sharks sink as Dogs bite

2:30 AM | A 40-minute offloading blitz blew Cronulla out of the water last night. Without Paul Gallen and Todd Carney, the Sharks, who were a shadow of the team that soared into premiership reckoning last Sunday, never looked like coming away from ANZ Stadium with the two points against Canterbury, who have transformed into a touch football-playing team of halfbacks under Des Hasler.

National - Sport

Carbon tax may hurt natural disaster zones

2:30 AM | Residents of areas hit by natural disasters could face carbon tax bills from rubbish dumps.

National - General

Saving the species: this tiny two-year-old is the right possum for the job

2:30 AM | One of the country's rarest mammals and Victoria's faunal emblem will be the subject of a captive breeding program.

National - General

Introducing Myer's fashion Cupid

2:30 AM | Salon queen matches her clients with the perfect clothes.

National - General

This NSW outfit can be guaranteed not to take a backward step

2:30 AM | A lock sentenced to jail, a five-eighth who has been warned he faces jail, a captain who a Herald columnist once wrote should be in jail and a fullback who spent 18 months fighting allegations that would have landed him in jail are among the players who give NSW the best chance of winning Origin for seven years.

National - Sport

Cut Demons' pay, says former great

2:30 AM | David Schwarz claims dysfunctional playing group deserves only 75 per cent of salary cap.

National - Sport

Stanton: from whipping boy to stealth Bomber

2:30 AM | Essendon midfielder one of the most improved players in the competition.

National - Sport

Specialist role must maintain high standards

2:30 AM | The oversupply of player managers is causing protocol problems.

National - Sport

Jetta first culprit charged with staging

2:30 AM | Long-promised crackdown on staging has claimed its first culprit.

National - Sport

Track feud not personal: O'Brien

2:30 AM | Top trainer says he and other entitled to use social media to make their views known.

National - Sport

Tit for tat as Liberal MP cops it as payback

2:30 AM | THE government has referred the NSW Liberal MP Craig Kelly to Parliament's privileges committee as payback for the opposition's pursuit of Craig Thomson.

National - General

Two decades after Mabo, court set to recognise Lake Eyre native title

2:30 AM | THE Federal Court is expected today to recognise native title over Lake Eyre in a special hearing at Finniss Springs Station south of the Oodnadatta Track.

National - General

Support grows for 10¢ container deposit plan

2:30 AM | WITH signs of growing support around the country for compulsory container deposit schemes, two NSW MPs have announced they will introduce legislation to ensure a 10¢ refundable deposit paid on all drink containers sold in the state.

National - Environment

MP ticked the right boxes

2:30 AM | IT LOOKS like the government has got away with it. That's what the Craig Thomson excitement was all about yesterday - can the Gillard government, with its wafer-thin advantage, survive his statement to Parliament?

National - General

The sickening sound of an axe on its victim, a plaintive plea … and silence

2:30 AM | Once more a member of the Milat clan visits horror on a family.

National - General

Greiner swallows entitlement cuts

2:30 AM | A FORMER premier, Nick Greiner, yesterday said he would not take legal action against the O'Farrell government in response to its decision to cut back his taxpayer-funded entitlements.

National - General

Defer Gonski's funding reforms, private schools urge

2:30 AM | FEDERAL reform of school funding is increasingly unlikely with a key private-school lobby group saying the government's new model cannot be implemented in its present form and calling for a two-year extension of the existing system.

National - Education

Three new boats, but asylum seekers on decline

2:30 AM | THE number of asylum seekers coming to Australia has dropped by 9 per cent, at the same time as global asylum seeker flows increased by 20 per cent.

National - General

Engineering jobs to go as Qantas consolidates

2:30 AM | QANTAS has indicated it will eventually close its aircraft maintenance base at Avalon Airport near Geelong, after its decision to slash 535 engineering positions and close a base at Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport by August.

National - General

Rail lines shut down for weekend

2:30 AM | TRAIN users face a weekend without services through the city, a week after the Transport Minister, Gladys Berejiklian, declared RailCorp has been incapable of properly managing trackwork.

National - General