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18 Nov 09 | THE Labor senator Steve Hutchins has condemned the High Court for being out of touch after it struck down laws that allowed the NSW Crime Commission to freeze the assets of suspected criminals.
18 Nov 09 | LAWYERS should stop charging for administrative tasks such as opening a Christmas card or photocopying, says an association representing compensation firms says.
18 Nov 09 | A COLOURFUL 46-page guide on consumer rights for overseas students has been attacked as a useless waste of money by a foreign student support group.
18 Nov 09 | THE kangaroo meat industry's failure to adhere to hygiene regulations is placing public health at risk, a former senior food safety bureaucrat says.
18 Nov 09 | AN UNPRECEDENTED number of foster parents are wanting to adopt their foster children since the State Government allowed carers to continue receiving hundreds of dollars in welfare payments upon adoption.
18 Nov 09 | MORE than a third of young people leaving foster care at the age of 18 are homeless for some time within a year, a study shows, and almost 30 per cent are unemployed.
18 Nov 09 | NATHAN REES'S donation and lobbyist reforms have been exposed as an attempt to get one step ahead of the McGurk parliamentary inquiry, which will report that the Planning Minister, Kristina Keneally, has behaved ''unusually'' over her department's relationship with lobbyists.
18 Nov 09 | THE Department of Ageing and Disability has given $48 million in grants without proper documentation and overpaid staff more than $1.6 million, the Auditor-General said yesterday - and most of the overpayments are unlikely to be returned.
18 Nov 09 | NATHAN REES'S plans to limit how much political parties can raise from donations before the next state election is likely to severely disadvantage the Opposition, which has been raising funds at record levels in the expectation that it will win government.
18 Nov 09 | SPECULATION is mounting that the beleaguered Queensland Premier, Anna Bligh, could be replaced as leader within six months.
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.
17 Nov 09 | The impasse on board Australian customs vessel the Oceanic Viking has been resolved, with all 56 Tamil asylum seekers agreeing to leave the boat tomorrow morning.
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