National News
07 Nov 09 | Big polluters are pulling no punches in shifting the cost of tackling carbon in the atmosphere onto others, write Marian Wilkinson, Ben Cubby and Flint Duxfield.
07 Nov 09 | The war between David Clarke and his one-time protege, Alex Hawke, for political control in north-west Sydney has taken a surreal turn. Deborah Snow and Nic Christensen report from the MPs' battleground.
07 Nov 09 | HOBART: The Rudd Government has pulled plans to publicise the discovery of massive illegal fishing nets in the Antarctic while the ship that found them, Oceanic Viking, is under a different spotlight.
07 Nov 09 | THE instructions that the businessman John Alexander and his wife gave for the revamp of their Southern Highlands home were so vague the couple could have been asking for an ''Ikea renovation'', a court has heard.
07 Nov 09 | THE State Government must consider curbing population growth in western Sydney because there will not be enough water to sustain agriculture, recreation and environmental flows in the region, scientists say.
07 Nov 09 | AFTER months in the care of humans, three precious green sea turtles are back in the hands of chance. The three young reptiles were born last summer somewhere on an unknown beach in Queensland and were rescued, off course and near death, in the cold waters of Wollongong, Gosford and Dee Why between April and May.
07 Nov 09 | WITH its stone walls, gargoyles, peaked archways and tower, the Abbey in Annandale is a house that has always stimulated the imagination.
07 Nov 09 | STAFFERS for Malcolm Turnbull and the NSW upper house Liberal MP David Clarke have denied disseminating a scathing YouTube attack on the federal Liberal backbencher Alex Hawke, despite an email chain that appears to link them to the clip.
07 Nov 09 | OPPOSITION by the State Government to parole for one of the killers of the heart surgeon Victor Chang was a political reaction to an ''artificially stirred up'' outcry, his lawyer told the Parole Authority yesterday.
07 Nov 09 | A SQUARE in busy New York, a sports hall at Berry south of Sydney and a holiday house on Victoria's Morning Peninsula have one thing in common - they were designed by Australians.
07 Nov 09 | FORGET the morning jog and go back to sleep: exercise may be bad for you.
07 Nov 09 | A FORMER friend and a former lover lined up to derail John Della Bosca's campaign for the premiership yesterday.
07 Nov 09 | THE reputation of Australia's $16 billion overseas education industry has been dealt another blow by the sudden collapse of the Global Campus Management Group, which ran four colleges in Sydney and Melbourne with about 3000 students.
07 Nov 09 | RISING sea levels make it inevitable the North Coast town of Ballina will eventually need levees and pumps to keep the sea at bay, says one of Australia's leading climate change experts.
07 Nov 09 | THE impact of the financial crisis on employees is lingering. A survey shows that as anxiety about losing a job eases, Australians are less confident that they could find another one with the same pay.
07 Nov 09 | A COLLECTION of humble plants clinging to 600 million-year-old rocks on a distant mountain range and a small dragon given to promiscuous sex under a hot sun have forced planners to redraw the map for the southern hemisphere's biggest wind farm.
07 Nov 09 | SENIOR executives from the world's biggest coal companies unanimously agreed to back the multimillion-dollar advertising campaign running in rural NSW and Queensland attacking the Rudd Government's emissions trading scheme.
07 Nov 09 | THE prisoner-of-war impostor Rex Crane, who dishonestly received $400,000 in war pension payments, will plead guilty to fraud and deception.
07 Nov 09 | KEVIN RUDD has launched a blistering attack on climate change sceptics and deniers in Australia and abroad, accusing them of a systematic campaign to sabotage global talks in Copenhagen and of being contemptuous towards the interests of the world's children.
07 Nov 09 | THERE wasn't a lot left of Flowerdale after bushfires swept through the country Victoria town last summer. But what did survive - the Flowerdale Hotel - became the first stop for V8 Supercars driver Alex Davison on his way to Phillip Island this weekend.