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SMH: A mile out in front, but NSW Labor's ship is ready to go about - The Auburn by-election this weekend will tell the NSW Premier if the tide is turning against him and his Government, Matthew Moore reports.

SMH: Caught in the grip of a political sex scandal - Police who investigated the sexual assault allegations against ALP MP Mr Joe Tripodi were questioned by Internal Affairs yesterday after one officer was found to have strong ALP links.

SMH: Editorial: Hollow victory - However it is dissected, the result of the Auburn by-election is not good for the NSW Premier and his State Government. In the largest anti-government swing since 1995, Labor suffered a decline of 11.4 per cent on the two-party preferred vote.

SMH: Iron-fisted NSW Premier ups the ante on crime - Mr Carr has taken his campaign against crime to new levels, announcing a raft of new offences and tougher sentences yesterday during a rowdy start to the spring session of the NSW Parliament.

SMH: Lift for Chikarovski as Carr mugged by slump - Labor's huge lead over the Coalition has been almost halved in the past four months as the Carr Government struggles to stave off a mid-term slump.

SMH: Revealed: how NSW ALP MP's son used computer in hacking scandal - The son of Mr Tony Kelly, the NSW ALP MP at the centre of hacking allegations, was using a computer in his father's parlia-mentary office late one Friday night to run software that can scan computer networks for security weaknesses while his father was overseas on parliamentary business.

SMH: Statistics take the sting out of NSW Premier's tough talk - The NSW Premier's law-and-order campaign in the Auburn by-election suffered a reality check yesterday as new crime figures for the area showed little improvement in the levels of some violent crimes.

SMH: "Part-time Premier' under fire - NSW Premier Bob Carr spent two months travelling abroad last year, flying first class and staying at five-star hotels in Italy, London, Barcelona, New York, Washington and Beijing.

SMH: 'Get a facelift' - the insult that riled Chikarovski - The NSW Opposition Leader, Mrs Chikarovski, demanded an ALP government backbencher withdraw the words "get a facelift" during a torrid exchange in State Parliament yesterday.

SMH: A collective like no other - A little more than 600 people have been called to serve an exclusive master - the ALP Caucus - , write John Faulkner and Stuart Macintyre.

SMH: A literate lot is brought to book over their ministerial musings - You can't always tell a politician by the cover of their book but sometimes it helps, according to one of Labor's longer-serving senior ministers.

SMH: A mother's shame for her sons' vote cheating - She was the most powerful woman in the Queensland ALP, but Mrs Joan Budd broke down yesterday as she admitted her role in falsely enrolling her three sons in her husband's seat.

SMH: A new slant on the White Australia Policy - The latest plan to repel boat people provides an opportunity for Kim Beazley to stand up and be counted, writes Robert Manne.

SMH: A stellar career which failed to gain lift-off - This is probably not how Joe Tripodi envisaged his brilliant career - being catapulted from the ranks of "fabulous nobodies", as he was described earlier this year, to front page fodder in a sex scandal.

SMH: AEC wary of cleaning up for ALP - The Australian Electoral Commission may be invited to supervise Labor ballots for preselecting candidates to show that the party is serious about cleaning itself up.

SMH: ALP HQ seizes seat for George - The former ACTU president, Ms Jennie George, is expected to win official endorsement for a safe parliamentary seat at this year's Federal election when the voting power of the Labor Party head office is used to install her tonight.

SMH: ALP blasts Howard for 'Menzian' US policy - As the Prime Minister enjoys the plaudits of the Bush Administration in Washington, the Federal Opposition has attacked the primacy he has started giving to the United States relationship in foreign policy.

SMH: ALP fears Auburn will go in swinging - The NSW State Government is preparing for an electoral backlash in next weekend's Auburn by-election.

SMH: ALP gets tough as 400 more immigrants arrive - The ALP has called for a "maritime police force" to encourage boat people to turn around and head back to Indonesia.

SMH: ALP lets schools bill pass Senate - Labor had handed votes to the minor parties, it was claimed yesterday after the Opposition refused to block the schools funding bill which will give some of the country's richest schools more than an extra $1 million each a year.

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