National News
21 Oct 09 | A QUICK round of polling last weekend helped Peter Dutton decide to swallow his pride and recontest his Brisbane seat of Dickson.
21 Oct 09 | SENIOR scientists frequently sit on panels which decide whether their own research benefits from Australia's $800 million medical research funding, the National Audit Office has found.
21 Oct 09 | A NEW breed of personal mobility vehicles could avoid traffic jams by taking to footpaths or bicycle lanes.
21 Oct 09 | WOMEN workers are likely to suffer discrimination as a result of new workplace rights that enable them to take two years of unpaid parental leave instead of 12 months, according to a prominent feminist academic.
21 Oct 09 | THE drinking age should be raised to 21 and the price of a standard drink at least doubled if state governments are serious about tackling the problem of alcohol-related violence, a leading criminologist says.
21 Oct 09 | DISAFFECTED Anglicans at odds with their church over female clergy and gay marriage may be among the first to take up Pope Benedict's offer of unity with the Catholic Church.
21 Oct 09 | THE state's public transport agencies should get into the property development business, selling or renting land around key transport hubs at a premium price, a key tourism and transport lobby group has urged.
21 Oct 09 | GENETIC markers that will help identify men likely to get prostate cancer have been found in an international study.
21 Oct 09 | A person of interest in the inquest into the death of a teenage prostitute, Arron Light, admitted to a psychiatrist he could ''react explosively to physical provocation'', the inquest has heard.
21 Oct 09 | THE navy is facing morale problems among sailors on patrol boats assigned to chase down refugee boats, the Herald has been told.
21 Oct 09 | SURPRISE visits for checks on childcare services will end next month under changes announced yesterday by the National Childcare Accreditation Council.
21 Oct 09 | ANOTHER boatload of asylum seekers was picked up in Australian waters yesterday as Kevin Rudd admitted the Government would increase payments to Indonesia for intercepting boats and detaining asylum seekers.
21 Oct 09 | OF THE 44,000 people who had registered for zero-interest ''green loans'' under a Federal Government scheme, only 58 had received the results of their application by the end of September.
21 Oct 09 | THE Opposition is urging the Defence Force to install systems in camps in Afghanistan to warn troops that rockets or artillery shells have been fired at them.
21 Oct 09 | THE army will continue to use live ammunition on training exercises after a special forces soldier, preparing for his third tour in Afghanistan, was shot dead and a second soldier was seriously wounded in a night exercise in South Australia.
21 Oct 09 | SITTING down for a fresh seafood meal has become a quintessential part of life for many Sydneysiders. But our love affair with fish has prompted serious warnings about there not being enough to go around.
21 Oct 09 | A UNIFORM national tax on betting to fund the racing industry will be among the options canvassed by mainland states today as they try to stop the plunder of gambling revenue by internet betting operations in Tasmania and the Northern Territory.
21 Oct 09 | Jim's Group entrepreneur, Jim Penman, says he will fight attempts to remove him from the company he founded, signalling he intends to scrap a controversial new minimum fee that has angered many of his franchisors.
21 Oct 09 | A Melbourne woman who helped rescue a baby from underneath a train after his pram rolled off a railway station has described the "miracle" of finding him alive.
21 Oct 09 | A Sydney-based Australian soldier is dead and another has been seriously wounded after a mishap during a live firing exercise outside Port Augusta in South Australia last night.
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