National News
07 Apr 09 | Hundreds of officials are being pressed to sign statutory declarations as part of a widening witch-hunt into the Joel Fitzgibbon affair.
| 
Comments (5)
07 Apr 09 | Treasurer urges banks to pass on interest rate cuts as quickly as possible, as the Reserve Bank board meets this morning.
07 Apr 09 | A LOVER with a deadly bite is on the prowl. Heavy rain has lured Sydney's male funnel webs out of their burrows in search of a mate.
07 Apr 09 | A SERIES of emails from the NSW Education Minister's office show an independent inquiry into the future of Hurlstone Agricultural High School was being organised without the local member being told.
07 Apr 09 | THE Ombudsman has started an investigation into how a deeply troubled 15-year-old girl was forced to remain in the care of a family friend even though the friend pleaded with the Department of Community Services for five months to remove the girl.
07 Apr 09 | POLICE should be able to use initial video evidence given by victims, rather than written statements, to better show in court the effects of domestic violence, an independent MP says.
07 Apr 09 | AN increasing number of doctors are "recklessly" prescribing potentially addictive mood-altering drugs like benzodiazepines, the Medicare watchdog, Tony Webber, has found.
07 Apr 09 | The Diary: The High Court decision on the $900 stimulus payment may have been big news on Friday afternoon, but its chief justice, Robert French, found himself preoccupied with an altogether different matter.
07 Apr 09 | MORE than four in 10 Australians who do not consider themselves "born again"' still believe Jesus rose from the dead, while one in 10 does not believe he existed.
07 Apr 09 | THE Federal Government is changing its tack on climate change: fostering public support to combat a mounting pile of political opposition.
07 Apr 09 | BURWOOD council staff who claim that they did work on an apartment block owned by the council's general manager and its principal architect have lodged a complaint with the Independent Commission Against Corruption.
07 Apr 09 | A SENATE inquiry will be held into the Job Network tender after the Opposition backed the Greens' push for an investigation into the process.
07 Apr 09 | AN ICE wall damming the endangered Wilkins ice shelf against the Antarctic Peninsula has shattered, just as scientific alarms ring out about the region's rapid warming.
07 Apr 09 | MORE than half the Aboriginal children under five in a large region of the Northern Territory are anaemic and face a substantial threat to their physical and mental development, a health service says.
07 Apr 09 | A SECRET meeting has been held by some of the nation's most senior bikies, with the aim of adopting a revolutionary new charter to avoid eruptions of public violence like the brawl at Sydney Airport.
07 Apr 09 | SYDNEY researchers have discovered a way to alter the immune system long enough to prevent the rejection of donor tissue in a breakthrough that may remove the need for lifelong, immunosuppressant drugs in organ transplant patients.
07 Apr 09 | ACCOUNTANTS have been swamped with people filing tax returns so they are able to claim the $900 stimulus payment.
07 Apr 09 | SIX years ago Makiz Ansari set a test for her fellow Australians.
07 Apr 09 | THE State Government has repeatedly ignored the findings of a landmark report into the city's congested transport network and has turned its back on the transport wastelands of north-west and south-west Sydney, the Opposition warned yesterday.
07 Apr 09 | THE Sydney Lord Mayor, Clover Moore, has claimed the city could be "immunised" against power failures if state and federal governments backed the City of Sydney council's plan for a network of small gas-fired generators to power the central business district.