30 Oct 09 | The Federal Government must tell parents by how much child care fees will jump as a result of its plan to lift standards across the sector, the Opposition says.
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30 Oct 09 | There is no end in sight to a stand-off between authorities and asylum-seekers aboard the Oceanic Viking with the Rudd Government unable to say when the group will be off-loaded.
30 Oct 09 | An independent report says Australia can no longer freeload off other countries when it comes to collecting vital satellite data.
30 Oct 09 | BONDI will say ''Shalom'' to the Hakoah Club next week, when the social club - the epicentre of Jewish life in Sydney for decades - makes way for demolition of the infamous concrete carton it has called home begins.
30 Oct 09 | FOR $5000 a head, business people and lobbyists can get the opportunity to hobnob with federal and state ministers at Labor's state conference in a fortnight.
30 Oct 09 | THE NSW Government is ready to take over the privately run mandatory home building insurance scheme, in an attempt to avert a crisis in the industry.
30 Oct 09 | We know how much the Point Piper property developer Ron Medich loves to punt on the rezoning of western Sydney real estate.
30 Oct 09 | THE cost of the State Government's rail clearways program, designed to separate the network into distinct lines and minimise delays across the system, has blown out by more than $800 million, documents reveal.
30 Oct 09 | THE musician who created the catchy flute riff for the hit pop song Down Under in 1979 says he did not know it echoed the children's folk song Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree.
30 Oct 09 | AFTER surviving years of sneering from milliners, the fascinator and its half-hat hybrid cousin, the hatinator, are expected to reign at Flemington next week.
30 Oct 09 | MORE than 100 general practitioners from across the state will gather in Sydney next week to demand that the Federal Government stop its $275 million program to house doctors, nurses and allied health workers in so-called super clinics.
30 Oct 09 | THE Premier, Nathan Rees, has promised that funds raised from the sale of the state's electricity assets will be spent on transport infrastructure, fuelling speculation that the Government will announce funding for the $8 billion Western Metro project before the 2011 election.
30 Oct 09 | THE cost of the State Government's rail clearways program, designed to separate the network into distinct lines and minimise delays across the system, has blown out by more than $800 million, documents reveal.
30 Oct 09 | HOPES have soared that huge amounts of water from Australia's most famous cotton farm, Cubbie Station, could return to the Murray-Darling river system, after administrators were appointed to handle the affairs of the Queensland property.
30 Oct 09 | THE Reserve Bank's bank-note firm paid multimillion-dollar commissions to a senior Vietnamese official in an apparent breach of federal bribery laws that carry a 10-year prison sentence.
30 Oct 09 | DRIVING faster on some NSW roads is safer than driving slowly, two motoring groups say.
30 Oct 09 | THIS year's Australian Institute of Architects Awards went to large established practices and smaller firms. As Chenchow Little Architects proved with their extraordinary house in Freshwater, it's not size that matters. As well as the Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture, they also shared the National Award for Small Project Architecture with the ''Ang House'', a renovation to an existing house in Mosman.
30 Oct 09 | ''IT LOOKED like something out of the Hilton bombing, like a terrorist scene'', is how one police officer summed it up.
30 Oct 09 | PARRAMATTA City Council has accused the RTA of diverting funding from the construction of a cycleway alongside the North-West T-way, saying it was used instead to complete landscaping on the project at Westmead.
30 Oct 09 | AN IRISH backpacker is in a critical condition after being bashed in Coogee, police say.