National News
11 Nov 09 | UNCERTAINTY around the position of the state's lieutenant governor has thrown hundreds of decisions into doubt and forced the State Government to amend the constitution.
11 Nov 09 | MELISSA ASHFIELD was three years old when she saw her brother, John, being beaten to death. For her, 16 years have not eased the grief - nor has the sentence been long enough for the man who murdered him.
11 Nov 09 | HE TOLD them their sons were killers and murderers. But outside court yesterday the self-styled Muslim cleric, Man Haron Monis, claimed letters he sent to the grieving families of Australia's fallen diggers were his own version of a ''flower basket'' or ''condolence card''.
11 Nov 09 | THE growing demand for organic produce is sending the country's handful of genuine organic pork producers broke.
11 Nov 09 | THE Premier, Nathan Rees, has refused to follow Queensland's lead and cap political donations, arguing that any such reforms must be made nationally.
11 Nov 09 | DOCTORS have called for more than $3 billion to be injected into Aboriginal health services over five years to close the life expectancy gap between indigenous and non-indigenous people.
11 Nov 09 | THE Health Minister, Nicola Roxon, is heading for a showdown with health insurance funds over premium rises early next year.
11 Nov 09 | ONLY about half of NSW emergency patients would recommend the hospital they had attended this year and three-quarters felt they had to wait too long to see a doctor, according to the Health Department's annual patient satisfaction survey.
11 Nov 09 | THE actor Paul Hogan, the film producer John Cornell and their financial adviser, Tony Stewart, launched a case against the Australian Taxation Office in an attempt to stop an investigation into tax fraud, a court has heard.
11 Nov 09 | A REFUSAL to compensate 500,000 ''forgotten'' Australians who the Federal Government will apologise to next week has been branded foolish by its own adviser.
11 Nov 09 | THE Federal Government seized on the Liberal Party's latest public divisions over climate change yesterday to increase pressure on the Opposition leader, Malcolm Turnbull, to strike a deal over its emissions trading legislation.
11 Nov 09 | THE Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has lifted the veil on the long-awaited report cards that will reveal unprecedented levels of information about every school in the nation.
11 Nov 09 | THE Family First party has gained its first parliamentary representation in NSW, signing up the independent MLC the Reverend Gordon Moyes.
11 Nov 09 | THE Premier, Nathan Rees, lost an initial vote in caucus yesterday over laws the Government is introducing that would allow the Independent Commission Against Corruption to examine and investigate a tape illegally recorded by the murdered standover man Michael McGurk.
11 Nov 09 | THE badly needed redevelopment of the Sydney Fish Market has been abandoned. Site management says it can no longer wait for the State Government to deliver funding.
11 Nov 09 | THE ABC board will lose one of its most strident right-wing voices when the conservative commentator Janet Albrechtsen steps down as a director in February.
11 Nov 09 | DIETS low in carbohydrates that limit intake of foods like bread, pasta and potatoes produce good weight loss, but make people grumpy, a study has found.
11 Nov 09 | LIQUOR licensees are raising their glasses to the High Court after it unanimously overturned millions of dollars in compensation payouts for three patrons injured or killed after frequenting pubs and clubs.
11 Nov 09 | THE Premier will use the combined might of the state's electronic records to catch voters who fail to enrol to force an estimated 400,000 unregistered people on to the electoral roll.
11 Nov 09 | NEW ZEALAND has rejected an approach from the Rudd Government to take any of the 78 asylum seekers refusing to leave a customs ship moored in Indonesia.