4:00 AM AEDT | Australia's Commonwealth Games team is struggling to attract sponsorship, with corporate Australia baulking at supporting a Delhi Games that many dread might not occur.
4:00 AM AEDT | Mark Rudan may be on the books of a rival club but the man who led Sydney FC to their first, and so far only, championship makes no secret where his allegiance lies in the grand final.
4:00 AM AEDT | Combative Northern Irishman Terry McFlynn insists the rivalry between Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory is not driven by hatred or the Kevin Muscat factor, but rather the winning culture the two clubs share.
4:00 AM AEDT | Waratahs hooker Tatafu Polota-Nau was happy to tutor Pek Cowan in the fine art of hooking during the Wallabies tour last year. But tomorrow night Polota-Nau aims to dish out a far harsher lesson to Cowan when they face up in the middle of the front row in the Waratahs-Western Force derby in Perth.
4:00 AM AEDT | WELLINGTON: Ricky Ponting had been assured by the suits at Cricket Australia that Michael Clarke was mentally fit. Text messages from Clarke had eased Ponting's fears about his vice-captain being curled up in the foetal position after the human tendency to be devastated by the end of a serious relationship.
4:00 AM AEDT | State MPs arrived at Macquarie Street yesterday to find themselves confronted with the fallout from a serious leak - but not the political kind. Instead, parliamentary staff were busy mopping up on four levels after a mysterious flood overnight.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE Keneally government is frustrating attempts by the opposition to enshrine the rights of the state's 750,000 carers in law, even though mirror legislation was introduced into Federal Parliament on Wednesday.
4:00 AM AEDT | A POLICY of the Department of Forensic Medicine relating to bodies of people who were HIV positive is being challenged on the grounds of discrimination.
4:00 AM AEDT | NOTORIOUS pursuers of publicity though they may be, parliamentarians' egos shrink alarmingly when in Canberra.
4:00 AM AEDT | AUSTRALIA pays vastly more than other countries for defence equipment, a study has found.
4:00 AM AEDT | TASMANIA'S embattled Labor government is continuing its attack on the Greens as tomorrow's state election looms - to the fury of some in the party.
4:00 AM AEDT | AUSTRALIA is one step closer to exporting uranium to Russia, after the government rejected concerns raised by a Labor-dominated committee into an export agreement reached by John Howard and Vladimir Putin.
4:00 AM AEDT | SHOULD Labor lose power in either South Australia or Tasmania - or both - this weekend, the most immediate impact federally will be a confidence boost for Tony Abbott.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE planned clean-up of the radioactive site at Hunters Hill is facing an indefinite delay. The government has missed its own deadline to begin the clean-up, and is yet to even start on the necessary paperwork.
4:00 AM AEDT | MORE than a quarter of all assaults in pubs and clubs happen in the six worst hours every week - between midnight and 3am on Saturdays and Sundays - lending support for calls to reduce pub trading hours.
4:00 AM AEDT | KEVIN RUDD'S cold shoulder to Kristina Keneally will look positively friendly compared with the way his ministers are likely to react to their NSW counterparts after yesterday's tribunal announcement.
4:00 AM AEDT | Household electricity bills are set to soar, rising by up to $918 a year by 2012-13, thanks to a combination of the federal government's planned carbon emissions trading scheme and a large spending program needed to improve network reliability.
4:00 AM AEDT | PETER DOYLE, a member of the restaurant-owning family that owns Peter Doyle at the Quay and Watson's Bay Hotel, is to stand for Liberal preselection for the state seat of Vaucluse.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE case of the state's first genderless citizen has forced the equivalent of a bureaucratic sex change on the government.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE value of the former union boss John Maitland's holding in the controversial Doyle's Creek mining project approved by his political ally, the Minister for Mineral and Forest Resources, Ian Macdonald, has grown 60-fold since he began buying into the planned coalmine, documents show.
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