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Come And See The Wheel Thing

THE rot first set in, I reckon, with the invention of the telephone. Before it came along, to bother someone you had to jump on a horse, ride through choking dust and ford swollen rivers to bash on their door.

Wallabies Cook Up 2-minute Back Line

A NEW-look Wallabies back line, with three newcomers who boast just two minutes of Test experience between them, will be unveiled against Wales in Sydney on May 26.

The Quest For Meaningful Help On The Other End Of The Line

'WE SEE ourselves as a group of people who want everybody well informed," said the woman who answered the phone at the Pregnancy Help Line one night this week, her voice steady and reassuring. "So I take it you're feeling pretty shocked?" she says.

Crime Gangs Suspected In Line Cuts

ORGANISED crime gangs may be responsible for vandalism that cut telephone, internet and data connections around Port Stephens yesterday.

Civilian Heroes In Medal Fight

MORE THAN 60 years after the end of World War II, two Victorians who helped build a secure telephone line from Brisbane to Port Moresby are battling to receive a medal for their service. Albert Dunner and John MacGregor, both 86, were civilians working for the Post Master General's Department when they were called on to recover unused telegraph cables from Bass Strait and lay them beneath the Torres Strait and Gulf of Papua in 1943.

Telstra In Eye Of Storm

HUNTER Valley homes and businesses have been without a working telephone line for up to a week, after wet weather.

Hughes Giving 'em Kurri In France

WHEN that familiar, mischievous voice chuckled down the telephone line from another hemisphere, I could not help but marvel at the strength of the ties that bind in footy.

Crisis Line Has Secret Agenda

KATE is a pregnant teenager. Distraught, she scours the telephone book for a crisis counsellor and hooks up with a 24-hour hotline.

Fixed-line Fortunes Flailing, Telstra Finally Bites The 'bucket Plan' Bullet

TELSTRA'S decision to plunge into the market for capped fixed-line call packages was inevitable. That doesn't lessen its significance.

Telstra $9 Fee Rejected

THE price Telstra charges its broadband competitors to use its telephone lines may fall significantly following a crucial ruling against it by the Australian Competition Tribunal.

Fixed-line Phones Set For Extinction

THE days of Telstra's circuit-switched telephone network that has served Australia for a century may be numbered.

Telstra Back In Line Of Fire

TELSTRA stepped into the political firing line again yesterday, warning wholesale customers that within two months it would begin charging an average $30 per customer per month for access to its copper phone lines, and releasing its suggestions for operational separation of the corporation.

Husband 'blew A Fuse' Before Killing, Court Told

WHEN Paul Margach suspected his wife Tina was having an affair, he searched her mobile phone for telephone numbers and called a man he had never met, Shane Breheny.