National News
03 Nov 09 | ASYLUM seekers in Indonesia are routinely beaten and denied clean water and medical care in detention centres paid for in part by Australian taxpayers, says a report handed today to the Government.
03 Nov 09 | A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy is lucky to be alive after he sneaked into his grandmother's car, which rolled across a busy road and over a 10-metre cliff at Austinmer, Thirroul, yesterday.
03 Nov 09 | THEY may have been shunned by Mosman's cafes, but the suburb's dogs will still be welcome in the kingdom of heaven.
03 Nov 09 | WHY should the girls have all the fun? That was the feeling at Flemington and Royal Randwick race courses yesterday as the dandies took on the dolls in the fashion stakes.
03 Nov 09 | FADI IBRAHIM'S tears fell slowly at first. But as the news began to sink in that the 23-year-old shooting victim would be granted bail on $1 million surety, his tears of relief gave rise to an uncontrollable shuddering of the chest.
03 Nov 09 | DOES an assertion of Christianity imply someone is chaste?
03 Nov 09 | THE 27 survivors from a refugee boat which sank 350 nautical miles off the Cocos Islands are being taken to the Australian territory of Christmas Island for processing. Little hope remains for 11 other people still missing.
02 Nov 09 | Eat your heart out, Sydney. When it comes to pulling off what is undoubtedly Australia's greatest and most extravagant social gathering, the Spring Racing Carnival, Melbourne has it down pat.
02 Nov 09 | THE Government has said it may reject a number of Coalition amendments to the emissions trading scheme after it revealed the scheme would now cost taxpayers $2.5 billion by 2020.
02 Nov 09 | THE federal Education Minister, Julia Gillard, has been forced to change her school building program to respond to complaints that its tight time frames were inflating prices and leading state governments to foist unsuitable buildings on schools.
02 Nov 09 | THE Federal Government, already struggling to prune the cost of health, faces a $4.8 billion blow-out in the sector over the next four years.
02 Nov 09 | THE productivity benefits of high-speed internet access may be a myth, says a New Zealand study that undermines part of the Federal Government's justification for the $43 billion national broadband network.
02 Nov 09 | A WIND farm big enough to power 25,000 homes will be built near Glen Innes in the New England tablelands, the first of several huge renewable energy plants planned for the region.
02 Nov 09 | A GAME of musical chairs could see the seatless Labor frontbencher, Laurie Ferguson, parachuted into Mark Latham's old constituency of Werriwa.
02 Nov 09 | AS A member of the ACTU presidents' club, Martin Ferguson doesn't normally take public swipes at his former comrades. But the Minister for Resources and Energy yesterday dismissed the ACTU as a mere lobby group representing ''sectional interests''.
02 Nov 09 | ANOTHER delay in attempts to stop a massive oil and gas leak into the Timor Sea has meant a fire aboard the West Atlas rig continued to burn last night.
02 Nov 09 | WORK on a Federal Government rail project will shut down in Sydney this week, and hundreds of workers will be laid off, because of a potential cost blow-out allegedly caused by poor planning.
02 Nov 09 | FIVE months after the national bowel cancer screening program was cancelled when it was found almost half a million people had been given faulty home test kits, the Federal Government is ready to issue new tests.
02 Nov 09 | A POPULAR piece of inner-city open space has been handed by the State Government to a dog track for use as a car park, the City of Sydney Council says.
02 Nov 09 | EXHAUSTED and depressed after devoting her life to caring for her severely disabled son Niall, Anita Cain took him to a respite centre - and left him there.