National News
21 Nov 09 | SYDNEY is facing the early onset of the bushfire season with a heavy build-up of fuel still lying in the forests around the city, despite an increase in hazard reduction burning this year.
21 Nov 09 | IN A profession notoriously resilient to hard times, online dating sites threaten to do what the global financial crisis could not - send the sex services industry broke.
21 Nov 09 | Changing Scientology's tax-exempt status could involve a legal stoush, writes Malcolm Knox.
21 Nov 09 | For the first time in his premiership, Nathan Rees this week looked like a leader. But were voters listening? Andrew Clennell investigates.
21 Nov 09 | DURING the last federal election campaign, Maxine McKew was the belle of Bennelong. But if two years is a long time in politics, its eternity at the box office. So the telemovie we'll call Mad Maxine has been shelved indefinitely.
21 Nov 09 | NEW restrictions will be imposed on 66 of the state's most violent pubs and clubs as part of a revised scheme to reduce alcohol-related violence.
21 Nov 09 | AUSTRALIA POST has been found in court to have underpaid a new breed of postie who work under onerous contracts to deliver mail.
21 Nov 09 | KEVIN RUDD is expected to use an address to the Australian Christian Lobby today to announce continued funding for chaplains in schools.
21 Nov 09 | THE Federal Government forecast $4 billion would be deposited in First Home Saver accounts by 2012, but the scheme has had a very slow start with just $41 million deposited after its first nine months, according to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority.
21 Nov 09 | THEY are clean, quiet and efficient: no wonder electric and electric hybrid cars are seen as the future of motoring.
21 Nov 09 | THE acquittal of a woman who stabbed a teenage girl in an after-school brawl sends a dangerous message to students that fights can be settled with weapons, not words, a police officer says.
21 Nov 09 | JENNY Lauschke has never played rugby. At least, not normal rugby.
21 Nov 09 | TV DIGITAL multichannels will not have to screen a minute of Australian programming, with the federal Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, declaring that local content rules will not apply.
21 Nov 09 | A look at what's on offer on television from the world of sport this weekend.
21 Nov 09 | THOROUGHBRED racing's first EPO charges have been laid. Racing Victoria stewards yesterday asked trainer Bevan Laming and son Richard to answer charges regarding the banned substance being found ...
21 Nov 09 | Tamworth war horse The Jackal must overcome massive hurdles in today's $100,000 Ferrier Hodgson Stakes at Eagle Farm.Obviously, the $100,000 prizemoney, $30,000 more than any race at Rosehill ...
21 Nov 09 | CLARRY CONNERS is training out of a hospital bed. Thankfully his wife Maree is playing nursemaid. Conners is a hands-on man when it comes to thoroughbreds. Just have a look at his triumphs: Golden Slippers, derbies and any number of other feature races. But now it is all a bit different.
21 Nov 09 | DUBAI: Robert Allenby reaped a rich reward for switching early to the new grooves as he shot a brilliant opening round seven-under-par 65 to establish a course record and take an early lead in ...
21 Nov 09 | ANNA MEARES didn't want to lose her old coach Martin Barras, and this time last year she chose a highly strategic location to make her feelings known.The two-time world champion and Olympic gold ...
21 Nov 09 | LIKE many Sydneysiders, Kimberley Smith cycles to work in the city. But after being knocked off her bike seven weeks ago, the NSW Swifts defender suffered a broken collarbone - yet her spirit was ...