Metro & Regional

Suicide among children as young as 11 at alarming levels

2:00 AM | Girls as young as 11 are committing suicide at an unprecedented rate in Northern Territory indigenous communities where family violence is rife.

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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.

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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.

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Turning point for sex-change teens

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

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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.''

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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.

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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.

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Framed: the untold story about the Croatian Six

2:00 AM | Was the jailing of six Croatians a counter-terrorism coup for Australia or a set-up by foreign spies? Hamish McDonald chronicles the case that devastated a community.

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Video boast - how I shot the Diggers

2:00 AM | THE Afghan soldier who gunned down three Australian Diggers last year has gloated about his attack and told how his unit comrades fantasised about launching similar jihad operations.

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There's no such thing as a good divorce: the kids always suffer

2:00 AM | EVEN a ''good'' divorce may not protect children from the fall-out of a marriage breakdown.

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Writing's on the wall for blue collar work

2:00 AM | Sydney's outer suburbs are bearing the brunt of job losses, writes Stuart Washington.

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Prince of wails: how a royal abroad missed his mistress

2:00 AM | Illicit love gets an airing on Valentine's Day at the State Library, writes Steve Meacham.

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Vote on alternative medicine falls victim to dark arts of the internet

2:00 AM | LATE last month the Herald reported on a lobby group of more than 400 doctors, medical researchers and scientists - dubbed Friends of Science in Medicine - pressuring universities to close down alternative medicine degrees, arguing the practices have no scientific basis.

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