DOUBLE-DIGIT increases in property prices over 2009 suggests that further interest rate rises may come sooner rather than later, an economist says.
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OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott says he will turn back boats carrying asylum seekers if elected, while accusing the government of lacking the nerve to do it.
AUSTRALIA’S car industry has largely seen off the global financial crisis and is on the verge of re-inventing itself in 2010.
THE protest hearings that will decide the Sydney to Hobart handicap race winner have begun in Hobart.
IN Middle Earth, they speak Elvish; on the Final Frontier, some speak Klingon.
IT was a year in which health news caught a major dose of swine flu, from its rapid global spread to the rush by scientists to confront it with a vaccine.
SIX people are dead and their Australian pilot is fighting for his life in hospital after their light plane crashed in Papua New Guinea.
OSCAR-WINNING movie director and king of Middle Earth Peter Jackson has been made a knight in the first New Zealand honours list since the title was reinstated.
THE financially troubled Washington Times axed its sports section on Wednesday, just days after announcing it will no longer publish a Sunday edition.
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