National News
18 Nov 09 | A BACK-ROOM deal to force the Labor MP Chris Hayes to move from his seat of Werriwa to nearby Fowler so Laurie Ferguson could take Werriwa was designed to end a decades-old factional war in western Sydney, sources said.
18 Nov 09 | JAKARTA: A fight broke out among the 247 asylum seekers refusing to disembark from their boat in Merak, spilling on to the nearby dock and prompting Indonesian Navy personnel to intervene.
18 Nov 09 | THERE was fresh embarrassment for the Rudd Government last night when it was revealed that the visit cancelled by the Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, was far more advanced than the Government had let on.
18 Nov 09 | LOUISE SAUVAGE is no stranger to challenges, and getting into the Sydney Opera House used to be one of them.
18 Nov 09 | COALITION climate-change rebels have begun flexing their muscles in anticipation the leadership will do a deal with the Government over the emissions trading scheme.
18 Nov 09 | MORE Australians may be forced to turn to public housing because prices and rents have ballooned well above the inflation rate in the past decade, a federal report on welfare says.
18 Nov 09 | THE St James Ethics Centre has accused the State Government of deliberately stalling approval on an ethics pilot program for schools, saying the education minister is bowing to pressure from church groups in the hope the issue will go away.
18 Nov 09 | THE Labor powerbroker and lobbyist Graham Richardson is set to appear again before the parliamentary inquiry into the McGurk affair to give answers about a tape recording he heard that is said to contain allegations of government corruption.
18 Nov 09 | TO THE children of Orlando Avenue, Cremorne, number 26 was known as ''the haunted house''. To their parents it was an eyesore.
18 Nov 09 | A Federal Court challenge by former bookmaker and Sydney Turf Club chairman Bruce McHugh, who wants artificially inseminated thoroughbreds to be able to race in Australia, will not be heard before ...
18 Nov 09 | A CASE that will determine the future of punting on the sport of kings in NSW begins on the 18th floor of the Federal Court building in Sydney today. The outcome has ramifications for the funding of racing across Australia as online gambling continues to grow and and the behaviour of punters changes.
18 Nov 09 | THE goose step? The miracle no-look pass? It will be well worth the price of admission if Wallabies great David Campese can impart those skills on the battling Parramatta Rugby Club, whose players began pre-season training last night.
18 Nov 09 | Michael Cockerill: Theoretically, with their country a fully fledged member of the Asian confederation, Australians should have been supporting Bahrain in last weekend's World Cup play-off against the champions of Oceania, New Zealand. Truth is, they weren't.
18 Nov 09 | BY HIS report's admission, David Crawford is no big fan of archery, but yesterday the Sydney lawyer and company director took aim and let fly at one of the nation's biggest targets. Shooting for ...
18 Nov 09 | The Herald ’s Richard Hinds argues that the Crawford Report has got it right on the future of sport. It remains to be seen if the Crawford Report will be successful in its laudable intentions: ...
18 Nov 09 | The Herald ’s Jacquelin Magnay argues that the Crawford Report hasn't got it right on the future of sport. If I didn't know better, I would think after reading the Crawford Report that its panel ...
18 Nov 09 | THE long-awaited Crawford report into sport says Australia has to stop being an international over-achiever and learn to be satisfied with a ''realistic'' top 10 Olympic result.
18 Nov 09 | ON yet another day when West Indies cricket was accused of being behind the times, Australian-born Caribbean representative Brendan Nash was positively talking about catapulting the side light ...
18 Nov 09 | MICHAEL CLARKE couldn't have timed his run better if Bart Cummings was trainer. Having lobbed at the Melbourne Cup with Shane Warne, soaked up the sunshine in Bondi with his glamorous lady friend ...
18 Nov 09 | BRETT LEE is a fast bowler and a father. They're at loggerheads right now because elbow injury or not, the fast bowler keeps getting in the father's way.