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Putting the fun into feminism

2:00 AM | These new poster girls like their bras and know how to have a chuckle, writes ANNIE STEVENS.

Hospital computer system found lacking

2:00 AM | THE computer system that runs emergency departments across NSW is chronically underfunded and produces inadequate patient records, according to an independent report commissioned after some hospitals last year lost so much confidence in the software they returned to manual record-keeping.

National - General

Turning point for sex-change teens

2:00 AM | A new case may review approval for treatment in adolescents, writes Julie Robotham.

National - General

Rubbish dump transformed into park oasis tips its hat to the past

2:00 AM | IT'S hard to believe that 21 years ago the lush green landscape of Sydney Park was a bleak industrial area used as a rubbish tip.

National - Environment

Gloom and boom - Sydney counts the cost of a shocking summer

2:00 AM | JOE GIRGENTI has been driving ice-cream vans for 26 years. But his five trucks have spent much of the past few months tucked under a carport. ''It's been the worst summer that I've had,'' he said. ''There are no people. It's raining or it's windy or it's cold.''

National - General

Stealing for affection, not money

2:00 AM | The millions bought apartments she never lived in, jewellery she never wore and the attention she craved, write Paul Bibby and Lisa Davies.

National - General

Going, going - six years later, gone

2:00 AM | IT TOOK eight real estate agencies, seven price drops and almost six years to sell but the former site of Moog Wine + Food has finally changed hands.

National - General

Tseng fights tears as the going gets rough

2:00 AM | Despite her troubles, world no 1 is still even-par overall and just six shots from the lead.

National - Sport

Jubilant Gai goes west with confidence

2:00 AM | GAI WATERHOUSE is intent on tapping into Western Australia's mining-boom wealth on a three-day flag-flying mission to Perth.

National - Sport

Betting against Moody's great mare is only for the foolhardy

2:00 AM | EVEN betting kinky, as in eccentric not sexy, it is difficult to find an attractive gamble about the champion sprinter Black Caviar in today's Orr Stakes at Caulfield.

National - Sport

Bashford can't resist the thrill of a punting coup

2:00 AM | ''It used to come up in the paper on the form of my horses, 'watch market, big betting stable', I used to laugh about that,'' - Cliff Bashford

National - Sport

Slow-coaches not helping Pakistan team

2:00 AM | MANY people queried my decision to apply for the head coaching job for Pakistan. After their recent whitewash of England, you know why.

National - Sport

Bleiberg can bring back bling for Sky Blues

2:00 AM | HERE'S a name that hasn't got a mention as the next coach of Sydney FC: Miron Bleiberg. The Sky Blues have supposedly received 20 applications, and counting, since Vitezslav Lavicka's departure was announced a week ago.

National - Sport

Dubai the right way for champ, says Sadler

2:00 AM | JOHN SADLER, who spent three years training racehorses in Dubai, believes that a proposed trip to the emirate by Black Caviar would be a perfect place for the mare to make her international debut.

National - Sport

Black Caviar within a lap of the greats

2:00 AM | Records coupled with modern technology have enabled the expert judges and analysts to come up with the same finding - the unbeaten mare is a super freak. By Chris Roots.

National - Sport

Midlife crisis for one-day game as T20 steals the show

2:00 AM | ONE-DAY cricket is going nowhere. But for sceptics and supporters of Twenty20's older sibling the connotations of that are completely different.

National - Sport

Shark Bites

2:00 AM | Punters with a decent memory will remember how bravely Huegill ran in the Caulfield Guineas last year.

National - Sport

Jewel can shine

2:00 AM | Mark Kavanagh and his family could be big winners today at Caulfield.

National - Sport

Champion enters uncharted waters

2:00 AM | There are good reasons to conclude that Black Caviar will succeed at the longer distance.

National - Sport

Hoorays all round for 'Arry - so far, so good

2:00 AM | THE WRAP Independence Day finally arrives for rugby league … Capello torpedoed … Sharpe set to bow out … Contador's meat was a little spicy … Jets humiliate Sky Blues … Sonny Bill wins something …Hooker hooks himself from trials.

National - Sport