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12 Nov 09 | THE term ''call centre'' can conjure an image of corralled workers chained to the phone and timed toilet breaks. ''Stay-at-home mum'' can be shorthand for a bored woman with a baby stuck watching TV.
12 Nov 09 | Those fallen in conflicts from the fields of France to Afghanistan were remembered at the National War Memorial yesterday, writes Brendan Nicholson.
12 Nov 09 | LESS than a week before the Prime Minister's apology to children abused in state care, it has emerged that Kevin Rudd has not met the advisory group preparing the apology and the victims have not been shown a draft of the statement.
12 Nov 09 | THE Federal Government's decision to keep import restrictions on books will ''kill bookshops'' as online retailers such as Amazon gain the upper hand, the former chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Allan Fels, has warned.
12 Nov 09 | JULIA GILLARD has acknowledged poor parenting is placing a heavy burden on schools and has promised principals she will give them more support to tackle violence, bullying and behavioural problems.
12 Nov 09 | A GENETICALLY engineered corn authorised by the Australian food regulator as safe for human consumption has been withdrawn from Europe because of safety concerns.
12 Nov 09 | CRIMINALs who have previously served time in prison are about 25 per cent less likely to commit future offences if they are given a suspended sentence rather than a jail term, new research has found.
12 Nov 09 | A WOMAN who stabbed a student five times during an after-school brawl has told a court she feared for her family's safety after threats had allegedly been made on their lives.
12 Nov 09 | THE term ''call centre'' can conjure an image of corralled workers chained to the phone and timed toilet breaks. ''Stay-at-home mum'' can be shorthand for a bored woman with a baby stuck watching TV.
12 Nov 09 | Nominated yesterday for four Golden Guitars for the 2010 Tamworth Country Music Awards, the Caboolture muso turned international superstar has had bigger fish to fry in his adopted home of Nashville, which is celebrating country music week.
12 Nov 09 | THE Rees Government has bowed to pressure from rural and regional communities and abandoned its bid to rip up rail lines across the state.
12 Nov 09 | AUSTRALIA is in the grip of its biggest baby boom - a record 293,600 babies were born last year, 11,400 more than the year before. Roughly one third - 94,700 - were born in NSW, where births are rising faster than in any state other than Western Australia, increasing 5.8 per cent between 2007 and 2008, compared to the national increase of 4 per cent. Births in Western Australia jumped an extraordinary 9.2 per cent.
12 Nov 09 | THE proposed $1.8 billion Traveston Dam in Queensland has been quashed to protect endangered species, including Mary River turtle and cod, after a landmark decision by the Environment Minister, Peter Garrett.
12 Nov 09 | AMONG the many laying flowers yesterday at the Clovelly Road house where Chloe Waterlow and her father Nick were murdered on Monday was a Randwick father who did not know the victims but who felt moved to remember them.
12 Nov 09 | Nominated yesterday for four Golden Guitars for the 2010 Tamworth Country Music Awards, the Caboolture muso turned international superstar has had bigger fish to fry in his adopted home of Nashville, which is celebrating country music week.
12 Nov 09 | THE Rees Government has bowed to pressure from rural and regional communities and abandoned its bid to rip up rail lines across the state.
12 Nov 09 | AUSTRALIA is in the grip of its biggest baby boom - a record 293,600 babies were born last year, 11,400 more than the year before. Roughly one third - 94,700 - were born in NSW, where births are rising faster than in any state other than Western Australia, increasing 5.8 per cent between 2007 and 2008, compared to the national increase of 4 per cent. Births in Western Australia jumped an extraordinary 9.2 per cent.
12 Nov 09 | THE proposed $1.8 billion Traveston Dam in Queensland has been quashed to protect endangered species, including Mary River turtle and cod, after a landmark decision by the Environment Minister, Peter Garrett.
12 Nov 09 | AMONG the many laying flowers yesterday at the Clovelly Road house where Chloe Waterlow and her father Nick were murdered on Monday was a Randwick father who did not know the victims but who felt moved to remember them.
12 Nov 09 | WOMEN detained by police were more likely than men to be suffering mental illness, using hard drugs and to have experienced sexual abuse as children, a study has found, prompting calls for offenders to be given psychological help to reduce crime.