National News
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 | Anthony Sherna killed his partner after suffering years of abuse, writes Ian Munro.
19 Nov 09 | POLITICIANS are tweeting, blogging and poking, but most remain out of reach when it comes to receiving petitions over the internet.
19 Nov 09 | TWO councils on the north shore could take legal action to stop a safety fence being built at a notorious suicide spot, because they claim it would ruin the appearance of a bridge.
19 Nov 09 | THEY were strong, stern words only a mother could deliver. But the quiver in Robwyn Delboe's voice as she addressed the man responsible for her daughter's death revealed a woman shattered by unfathomable loss.
19 Nov 09 | A KEY document justifying the construction of the $450 million Tillegra Dam misused climate change and population data and failed to properly address its environmental impact, according to a letter prepared for the state's most senior water bureaucrat.
19 Nov 09 | TASMANIA: Japanese whalers have set a course for waters off the Australian Antarctic Territory, and their third season since the Rudd Government came to power vowing to end Southern Ocean whaling.
19 Nov 09 | BEFORE she murdered her two-year-old son, Rachel Pfitzner used to lock him out of the house. Every week their neighbours in Rosemeadow saw Dean Shillingsworth pounding on the glass doors, pleading to be let in. ''Mummy, Mummy, I am sorry,'' the banished toddler would cry.
19 Nov 09 | WHEN a clinical support officer, Amy Menegazzo, started her job three weeks ago, she was welcomed with open arms.
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.