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NRL: Bennett calls for commission clean slate

Helicopter patrols spot 200 sharks

More than 200 sharks, mostly hammerheads, were spotted during a 15-day helicopter surveillance off Australian beaches this summer.

Racing: Bart wins trainer's and owner's purse

Racing: Shoot Out sets sights on autumn features

Racing: The Opera House leading up to Qld Oaks crescendo

Soccer: Phoenix fume over hand-ball goal

Ricki Herbert had no difficulty pointing to the critical moment in last night's controversial defeat to Sydney FC.

Soccer: Sydney end title dream

Goals by Andrew Durante and Eugene Dadi can’t erase handball controversy as the Phoenix go down in Sydney.

Live scores: Super 14 week five

Motorsport: $2.5m prize for V8 Supercars Grand Slam

<i>Brian Rudman:</i> Sydney's flair for reinvention underlines our own lack of imagination

Boeing to shed jobs in Sydney

Lara Bingle to sue over nude photo

Model Lara Bingle says she will take legal action against a former lover, alleging he distributed a photo of her taken in a bath while the couple shared a brief affair in 2006.

Aussie agency turns to Facebook for new spies

Australia: Thousands bare all for photo shoot

About 5200 naked people have embraced each other on the steps of Sydney's iconic Opera House for a photo shoot by Spencer Tunick.

Byron Bay: Hey baby, fancy a break?

Proud father-to-be Alan Perrott discovers the joys of pampering packages for expectant parents.

Cricket: White Ferns avenge ODI pasting

Road rage may be behind deadly bashing

'Road rage killing' shocks Sydney

A road rage incident may have been the precursor of a vicious murder in Sydney's inner suburbs last night.