10 Nov 09 | NICK WATERLOW was one of those rare individuals who seemed to get on with everyone in a highly factionalised art scene. He was good natured and always ready with a laugh. His tastes were so eclectic that he could not be described as radical or conservative. As a curator he trusted his own instincts, but was prepared to listen to others and to experiment.
10 Nov 09 | HIS friend and colleague Ian Howard described it as the worst of tragedies. The gallery owner Gene Sherman was numb from shock. The Art Gallery of NSW's Edmund Capon was so distressed he could not bring himself to comment.
10 Nov 09 | WHILE working on a landmark art exhibition about schizophrenia in 2006, the leading Australian curator Nick Waterlow confided in his friend Martin Sharp, the eminent artist. Waterlow revealed that his son had a mental illness.
10 Nov 09 | The mother of a 15-year-old Brisbane girl suspended from school for shaving her head to raise money for cancer charities says her leukemia-stricken husband is proud of her actions.
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10 Nov 09 | Duncan Tang accused of killing his businesswoman wife by ''complete inaction'' because he did not get medical treatment for her after complications from dental surgery days before her death.
10 Nov 09 | A naked man bleeding from several stab wounds who staggered into a convenience store in Melbourne's east early today was rushed to hospital after staff raised the alarm.
10 Nov 09 | TWO adults are dead and a young girl is in a serious condition in hospital with wounds to her throat after an attack in a home in Randwick.
10 Nov 09 | THE husband of a millionaire Melbourne businesswoman is accused of killing her by ''complete inaction'' because he did not get medical treatment for her after complications from dental surgery days before her death.
10 Nov 09 | FORMER immigration minister Amanda Vanstone has been asked by the Australian Federal Police to explain why she granted a visa to an alleged Italian crime figure.
10 Nov 09 | Sydney businessman Michael McGurk was murdered outside his northern Sydney home in September. Now NSW's corruption watchdog has been given special leeway to delve further into the case.
10 Nov 09 | A man has been arrested hiding behind a boat after breaking into a yacht moored in Sydney's east, police say.
09 Nov 09 | STATE and federal environment ministers again ducked the issue of container deposit legislation at their meeting in Perth last week despite calls for immediate action from local government and environmental groups.
09 Nov 09 | THE upper north shore has been listed among Australia's top 10 endangered heritage sites by the National Trust.
09 Nov 09 | A BAKERY in one of Sydney's most culturally diverse suburbs has been ordered to pay $28,000 for race discrimination after a manager banned its Vietnamese staff from speaking Vietnamese, ordering ''anyone who speaks Vietnamese get out''.
09 Nov 09 | SUPERB drop with a fruity aroma and a rich, full body? It's not wine they're talking about, it's coffee.
09 Nov 09 | THE State Government will increase the incentive for families installing solar panels by about $1500, overturning its cautious approach to supporting the technology.
09 Nov 09 | MISLEADING marketing and deliberately deceptive labels are being used by large producers to con consumers into thinking they are buying ethically produced food.
09 Nov 09 | THE NSW Food Authority has confirmed that at least three cases of hepatitis A have been traced back to contaminated semi-dried tomatoes from Victoria, which are being blamed for a large outbreak of the disease.
09 Nov 09 | THE national road safety strategy set by federal and state governments a decade ago has failed, the peak motoring organisation says.
09 Nov 09 | THE federal Communications Department has splurged more than $1 million on two talkfests - for the new broadband network and for the switchover to digital television - amid suggestions that one conference will be a financial failure and the other will short-change regional viewers.