National News
02 Aug 09 | AUSTRALIA’S chief scientific body, the CSIRO, says price caps on carbon in Australia’s emissions trading scheme may stifle investment in renewable technologies and threaten Australia’s power supply.
02 Aug 09 | BHP-Billiton’s plan to dig the biggest open-cut uranium and copper mine in the world is under attack from environmental groups who claim it will send greenhouse gas emissions soaring in the home state of the Climate Change Minister, Penny Wong.
02 Aug 09 | THE president of a junior rugby league club has been accused of grabbing a 12-year-old boy by the throat and crash tackling him in yet another juniors game gone wrong.
02 Aug 09 | A 16-YEAR-OLD from Orange died while on a school skiing trip at the weekend. She hit a tree on a little-known run at Thredbo and was killed instantly.
02 Aug 09 | THE State Government is to embark on an ambitious project to build permanent housing for chronically homeless Sydneysiders based on a New York model that has never been tried in NSW.
02 Aug 09 | THE jobs market may be pulling out of its nosedive.
02 Aug 09 | AN INCREASING number of older women are having abortions, and most are working mothers who choose to focus on their career, current children and financial stability than have another baby, a study has found.
02 Aug 09 | THE most harrowing moments of the three-week trial of John Finnin came when the jury heard explicit sexual details from a conversation allegedly between one of a number of 15-year-old boys and the former senior Australian diplomat.
02 Aug 09 | THE owner of a floating male strip club has won the $15 million to $20 million tender for a big maritime development near the Sydney Fish Markets.
02 Aug 09 | UNIVERSITY lecturers are preparing to take statewide industrial action, including marking bans that could disrupt students’ exam results.
02 Aug 09 | THE Australian Trade Commission told one of its most senior diplomats that he was under police investigation for alleged child sex offences, allowing the man to resign quietly and return home, where he later repeatedly sexually abused a 15-year-old Victorian schoolboy.
31 Jul 09 | THE first reported case of swine flu in livestock has hit Australia, with positive tests shutting down a piggery in the NSW Central West.
31 Jul 09 | RICHARD PRATT ranked as one of Australia's richest men after building the Visy packaging empire. However, he died seemingly without a penny to his name. At least that's what his former lover, Shari-Lea Hitchcock, of Watsons Bay, and their daughter, Paula, have discovered.
31 Jul 09 | THE glossy lips around the offices of Vogue Australia were more pursed than usual this week as the perfumed glamazons frantically prepared for the launch of the 50th-anniversary issue of the magazine under the veil of intense secrecy.
31 Jul 09 | ENDLESS slate roofs baking under the midday sky. It’s not quite the swaying palm trees and golden beaches people move to south-east Queensland for.
31 Jul 09 | THE corruption crisis that engulfed Queensland this week could prove the catalyst for an overhaul of the way political parties are funded, Labor insiders have predicted.
31 Jul 09 | AUSTRALIA’S youth could be the first generation in 60 years to have a life tougher than their parents because of the debt being accumulated by the Rudd Government, Malcolm Turnbull says.
31 Jul 09 | THE biggest backroom stand-off of the Labor Party’s national conference continued last night with factions at war over small but significant changes to the party’s policy on gay unions and a commitment for greater legal protection from discrimination.
31 Jul 09 | MOST politicians make promises. Kevin Rudd sets performance benchmarks.
31 Jul 09 | A WINTER fire that has been raging for a week through south-eastern bushland may be a sign of things to come this summer, NSW Government officials fear.