National News
05 Nov 09 | Hard rock band AC/DC has knocked The Wiggles off the top of Australia's entertainment rich list in spectacular style thanks to earnings of $105 million in the past financial year.
05 Nov 09 | Despite committing the Federal Government to paying cleaners more money under an historic national agreement, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard's Parliament House office continues to be cleaned by staff who suffer the cheaper rates.
05 Nov 09 | THE NSW cabinet agreed yesterday to pay half the costs for the emergency trucking of water to towns and properties near the Lachlan River in western NSW, which is about to stop flowing due to critical drought conditions.
05 Nov 09 | The ageing lions of AM radio still command the fatter pay packets, but the results of this year's BRW Top 50 Entertainers list suggest their young rivals on the FM dial are fast catching up.
05 Nov 09 | Sleep problems are behind a number of mental illnesses, write Daniel Freeman and Jason Freeman.
05 Nov 09 | A WIDELY respected academic from the Australian National University has been detained by the Fijian military as the diplomatic crisis deepens.
05 Nov 09 | Will the sanctions imposed by Australia and New Zealand succeed in bringing Fiji's military dictator to heel?
05 Nov 09 | TWO hundred thousand women working in homeless and domestic violence shelters, aged care and other community services stand to win a 30 per cent pay rise under a major gender equity test case.
05 Nov 09 | ALCOHOL restrictions could be extended and more indigenous police recruited under a Federal Government push to reduce rates of crime in remote communities.
05 Nov 09 | ONE in five people seeking legal aid in NSW are being turned away from a system in crisis, said the Attorney-General, John Hatzistergos.
05 Nov 09 | DEVASTATED parents have condemned the closure of the state's only boarding school for profoundly disabled children, warning it will put unbearable pressure on families and further strain respite services.
05 Nov 09 | LIKE hundreds of others on Tuesday night, she visited Sculpture by the Sea. On the famous Bondi-Tamarama coastal walk she allegedly met Peter James Paul Millhouse - better known as Jhyimy ''Two Hats'' Mhiyles - who for almost 10 years has lived in clifftop caves by the path.
05 Nov 09 | MEDICARE Australia investigators have questioned 50 dentists about suspected rorting of the Medicare dental scheme amid estimates of a blow-out in costs.
05 Nov 09 | LAURIE FERGUSON'S own union powerbase has told him to retire and stop trying to continue his political career by seeking another seat while community resistance is building in the seat of Werriwa against moves to push out the sitting member, Chris Hayes.
05 Nov 09 | NORTHERN Sydney councils have urged the State Government to build a light-rail line between the booming residential and employment hub of Chatswood and the northern beaches, completing a project the Greiner government proposed in 1990.
05 Nov 09 | RAMASH* carries a plastic bag as he shuffles into the Dulwich Hill Uniting Church hall. The 25-year-old produces a bottle of cranberry soda and offers it to his friends, two men he didn't know in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, but with whom he'll form a surrogate family to adjust to life in Sydney.
05 Nov 09 | THE Federal Government has refused to take the 78 asylum seekers aboard the Oceanic Viking to Christmas Island, saying the deal between Jakarta and Australia to disembark the Sri Lankans in Indonesia needed to be honoured.
05 Nov 09 | IF YOU have been fretting about that overdue parking fine from a few years back, you are off the hook. The State Government has decided to write off more than 300,000 fines worth more than $60 million to the state's coffers.
05 Nov 09 | COUNCILS will be given powers to impose ''coastal protection service charges'' in perpetuity on houses where residents want to build sea walls to stop them falling into the ocean.
05 Nov 09 | UNIVERSITY undergraduates will be able to claim educational expenses as a tax deduction after a former student had a landmark win against the Tax Office in the Federal Court yesterday.