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 | IF AUSTRALIA keeps making new laws at the current rate, there will be 830 billion pages of tax legislation by the turn of the next century, the Rule of Law Association's Robin Speed said.
21 Nov 09 | THE last straw for Angela Baines came when she arrived at school 45 minutes late and found the police had been called to collect her children.
21 Nov 09 | THIS is a love story, as told by Nick Waterlow's grieving partner, Juliet Darling. Mr Waterlow, the renowned art curator, ''lived in love with love'' - even as he lived with a daily, unspoken fear of his mentally ill son.
21 Nov 09 | DEATHS from heart attacks and dehydration are expected to soar this weekend as Sydney enters its second day of scorching temperatures.
21 Nov 09 | NUDGE, nudge; wink, wink; say no more.
21 Nov 09 | ROAD safety experts say the growing popularity of motorcycles and the recovery in the economy are behind the spike in the state's road toll.
21 Nov 09 | ABUSIVE emails written by the son of the campaign manager of the Christian Democratic Party containing anti-Muslim and homophobic comments have embarrassed the party's president, the Reverend Fred Nile, only two weeks before the December 5 Bradfield byelection, in which the party will field nine candidates.