National News
19 Nov 09 | LIZ McCALL spends most of her time holed up in an office buried in paperwork. The nurse unit manager is a de facto payroll officer, recruitment agent, stores manager and, not by choice, a data entry expert.
19 Nov 09 | FIREFIGHTERS have urged politicians to act on climate change as the country faces catastrophic fire warnings and unseasonal heatwaves.
19 Nov 09 | FIVE major fires are burning in NSW as the state swelters in a heatwave that has seen decades old records fall.
19 Nov 09 | A NEW technology using algae to recycle carbon emissions from coal-fired power stations will be given a boost today when Queensland's Premier, Anna Bligh, announces the construction of a demonstration project at one of the state's largest power plants, Tarong.
19 Nov 09 | IF THE major parties do not agree to an inquiry into Scientology, Nick Xenophon will just keep telling horror stories about the religion until they do.
19 Nov 09 | CHILD welfare advocates are pressing the Federal Government to create a national children's commissioner, as promised by Labor in opposition in 2003.
19 Nov 09 | THE Defence Force has completed 18 months of intensive research to find out why women are reluctant to join the military and why so many of these who enlist do not stay.
19 Nov 09 | SPARE a thought for the person on the line before you next hang up in frustration on a call-centre operator.
19 Nov 09 | Being bullied at school has left almost seven out of 10 adults suffering from low self-esteem and a lack of assertiveness, new research says.
19 Nov 09 | A MURDERER with a long history of threatening and assaulting prison inmates and guards king-hit a remand prisoner so hard he was clinically dead and had to be revived.
19 Nov 09 | SHE'S passionate, genuine, gentle, insistent and unpredictable. She can front up to politicians, cajole bureaucrats, convince hospital administrators and sweet-talk leading surgeons.
19 Nov 09 | THE neurosurgeon Wirginia Maixner was inspired to do a little ''chicken dance'' when brain scans revealed that her team's surgery on the Bangladeshi twins Trishna and Krishna had been an against-the-odds success.
19 Nov 09 | A DAY after the State Government announced proposals for a big expansion of the M5 tollway and motorway in Sydney's south-west, the Minister for Transport has revealed his office is studying a radical plan to create a mega-company that would run all the city's tollways.
19 Nov 09 | NINA SIMONE sang Here Comes The Sun as plainclothed policemen kept watch at the funeral yesterday for Chloe Waterlow, 37, who, with her father, Nick, 68, was found dead in her Randwick home last week.
19 Nov 09 | IF TEGAN LANE were alive today, she would be 13. Police have never found her body, but they believe they have finally gathered the evidence to prove her mother, Keli Lane, killed her soon after her birth in 1996.
19 Nov 09 | A CATASTROPHIC fire danger warning has been been issued for the west and south-west of the state today due to very hot, dry and windy conditions - the first time this top ''code red'' alert has been forecast in NSW.
19 Nov 09 | ALL BLACKS duo Cory Jane and Neemia Tialata won't face any sanction after revealing on Twitter they'd been left out of this weekend's team to play England at Twickenham.
19 Nov 09 | LIVE betting on sport is going through the roof in Australia, as evidenced by the action off the field while the Indianapolis Colts and New England Patriots were battling it out in the NFL blockbuster on Monday.
19 Nov 09 | THREE weeks ago on enemy territory Shane Perkins took on the most intimidating forces in men's track cycling and placed fourth.No one was surprised when Great Britain's Chris Hoy, a four-time ...
19 Nov 09 | SHARK sightings are not unknown as you look down from the La Perouse headland from the NSW Golf Club and yesterday came confirmation that the Great White, known on his birth certificate as Gregory ...