National News
06 Apr 09 | GETTING down and dirty is all in a day's work for Joy Singh.
06 Apr 09 | NEXT time an employee of Fitness First asks you to leave their gym, you would be well advised to do so, after three men were allegedly set upon by an overzealous trainer and friends after a dispute about closing times.
06 Apr 09 | A $5 MILLION Federal Government project to improve medical services for Blue Mountains residents could backfire and drive local doctors away, area GPs say.
06 Apr 09 | The Diary: A week after the state memorial for Joern Utzon, when the Utzon family was given a standing ovation in the Opera House he created, the family has another reason to celebrate - another Australian Utzon.
06 Apr 09 | IT COULD be a Cinderella story, except life isn't like a Disney fantasy. At least, it hasn't been for the teenagers from the fire-ravaged Victorian towns of Kinglake, Flowerdale and Yea participating in the 90th Annual Yea Debutante Ball.
06 Apr 09 | STATE Parliament's best-known property investor, the dumped housing minister Matt Brown, has turned bearish, selling four properties in the six months to December, as the economy headed towards recession.
06 Apr 09 | THE Government-owned health fund, Medibank Private, has proposed a radical overhaul of the health system to spur competition in health care, particularly for those with chronic diseases.
06 Apr 09 | THE NSW Opposition is proposing to overhaul the delivery of disability services, which may emerge as a template for its approach to social services in the state if it gains power in 2011.
06 Apr 09 | THEY both look like cops, walk like cops, carry guns and drive police cars, but only one of these men has the full powers of a cop.
06 Apr 09 | JOHN HARRISON was only 4½ when his father, 36, went down with HMAS Sydney during its fateful encounter with the German raider HSK Kormoran in November 1941.
06 Apr 09 | TWO of the four men clad in bikie gear who talked their way into the Prime Minister's residence, the Lodge, in Canberra were "patched" or fully fledged members of the Rebels Motorcycle Club's Canberra chapter.
06 Apr 09 | THE state's most respected transport bureaucrat has broken an eight-year silence to condemn the NSW Government's botched handling of Sydney's transport system.
06 Apr 09 | BUILDING operators in the city are being told to use their own stand-by power generators and to cut consumption today to avoid further widespread blackouts this morning.
06 Apr 09 | ENERGY Australia is looking in the northern end of the CBD, the area hardest hit by the two power blackouts, for an additional substation as part of its $800 million City Grid project.
06 Apr 09 | A FORMER chairman of the Australian Securities Commission, Tony Hartnell, has extended an olive branch to the Tax Office, a move that could lead to an out-of court settlement for his long-running stoush over a $772,466 tax deduction.
06 Apr 09 | LUNCH at Il Buco to thank council employees and a subcontractor for doing free work excavating his driveway and replacing it with a new one was a fitting choice by Pat Romano, Burwood Council's general manager. After all, Il Buco is Italian for "hole".
06 Apr 09 | THE Starlight Children's Foundation has been forced to cut some of its services to seriously ill children as charities across Australia brace for a shortfall in corporate funding, as businesses reassess their philanthropic spending in the financial crisis.
06 Apr 09 | TWO of the big four banks were initially reluctant to take part in an industry-promoted scheme to help the newly unemployed and families suffering hardship by postponing their mortgage payments for up to a year until the Federal Government picked up on the idea.
06 Apr 09 | THE deficit threatens to reach $100 billion over the next three years, the Finance Minister, Lindsay Tanner, has warned, throwing into deeper doubt prospects for paid maternity leave and extra cash for universities in next month's budget.
06 Apr 09 | KEVIN RUDD has announced measures "for the dark and difficult times that lie before us" - a $650 million community jobs fund and a 12-month reprieve on mortgage repayments for people who lose their jobs.