PS payout rorts may turn sour
Noel Towell and Ewa Kretowicz Federal public servants are being offered redundancy payouts and told they are free to return to the bureaucracy after just one week.
Brown isn't beautiful
Ewa Kretowicz Young Australians in search of the body beautiful are turning to a potentially lethal technique to enhance their appearance.
AFP officer faces court on child indecency charge
Ewa Kretowicz A sworn Australian Federal Police officer has been charged with committing an act of indecency against a 12-year-old boy.
Teen love shown to be most consuming
Ewa Kretowicz BACK in 1965, Cat Stevens wrote The First Cut is the Deepest. It turns out he was right. New research from a joint American and Australian study has found that teen love feels life-changing because...
First love: researchers get to the heart of why teen breakups are so hard to do
Ewa Kretowicz It turns out that Cat Stevens was right when he wrote The First Cut Is the Deepest.
'Penis cam' DJ says prank went too far
Ewa Kretowicz The shock jock who caused national outrage with remarks about 'up-skirting' the Prime Minister says DJs who prank called the Duchess of Cambridge's hospital went too far.
Toxic takeaway: cholera, listeria and salmonella
Ewa Kretowicz CHOLERA-DUSTED prawns, peanuts with a side of pesticide, salmonella-infused chilli powder and E. coli and listeria-flavoured cheeses have been stopped en route to supermarket shelves this year.
Watchdog regularly finds dangers in food imports
Ewa Kretowicz Prawns infected with cholera, peanuts contaminated with dangerous pesticides and cheese carrying the harmful listeria bacteria have been intercepted on their way to Australia.
Recipe for disaster finally unveiled
Ewa Kretowicz Australians were unwittingly fed donkey meat, goat and maggot-ridden offcuts by some of the country's leading meat producers, according to newly revealed royal commission findings.
Capital greeting for Charles and Camilla
Ewa Kretowicz The flowers were from Woolworths but the smile was from the heart, when five-year-old Sebastian Leigh greeted Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Charles to Canberra on Saturday morning.
Concern as eating disorders 'desirable'
Ewa Kretowicz UP TO one in three young women view bulimia and anorexia as desirable ways to stay slim, a Melbourne researcher has found after reviewing more than 30 studies on attitudes to eating disorders.
Eating disorders seen as desirable
Ewa Kretowicz Up to one in three young women views bulimia and anorexia as desirable ways to stay slim, researcher finds.
PNG child mortality on rise
Ewa Kretowicz MOTHER-of-six Wendy Daniell is typical of women in remote areas of Papua New Guinea - she gave birth to her children without help.
Benefit shift hurts 'have nots'
Ewa Kretowicz THE federal government's Newstart program is actively discouraging welfare recipients from seeking work and creating a class of haves and have nots among those on benefits, according to one of...
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UN slams government's asylum seeker plan
Ewa Kretowicz The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has slammed the Australian government's decision to reintroduce offshore asylum seeker detention centres.
Credit card crunch
Ewa Kretowicz Australian credit card holders are being slugged with one of the highest interest rates in the world.
Advocates urge rethink on HIV tests
Ewa Kretowicz OVER-THE-COUNTER HIV tests that are as easy to use as a pregnancy test and cost about $20 will be available in United States pharmacies from October.
HIV groups want home testing kit in Australia
Ewa Kretowicz AN OVER-the-counter HIV testing kit that is as easy to use as a pregnancy test will soon be available in American pharmacies, sparking debate about allowing rapid testing for the infection in...
Warning about stopping statin
Ewa Kretowicz It's only a matter of time before misinformation and alarm about a cholesterol-lowering drug used in the prevention of heart disease and stroke causes Australian deaths, according to one leading...
Blind boy learns to see with sound
Ewa Kretowicz In a tunnel shaped like a cochlear - the auditory portion of the inner ear - Luke Andrews was taught another way to ''see'' by using sound along with his white cane.
