National News
20 Nov 09 | A NASTY split over which candidate Labor will field in the federal seat of Macquarie resulted in the Right faction rolling the Left yesterday during what was described as the most heated meeting of the ALP national executive in years.
20 Nov 09 | Anthony Sherna has sentenced to 14 years' jail for strangling his partner to death.
20 Nov 09 | MORE than half the Coalition's 37 senators have formally declared their opposition to Malcolm Turnbull's desire to cut a deal with Labor on the emissions trading scheme, setting up a showdown next week that many fear could tear the Opposition apart.
20 Nov 09 | The attack on the Church of Scientology as a ''criminal organisation'' by the South Australian senator Nick Xenophon this week has sent the anti-Scientology movement into a spin but not for the obvious reason.
20 Nov 09 | POLITICIANS are tweeting, blogging and poking, but most remain out of reach when it comes to receiving petitions over the internet.
20 Nov 09 | TWO councils on the north shore could take legal action to stop a safety fence being built at a notorious suicide spot, because they claim it would ruin the appearance of a bridge.
20 Nov 09 | THEY were strong, stern words only a mother could deliver. But the quiver in Robwyn Delboe's voice as she addressed the man responsible for her daughter's death revealed a woman shattered by unfathomable loss.
20 Nov 09 | A KEY document justifying the construction of the $450 million Tillegra Dam misused climate change and population data and failed to properly address its environmental impact, according to a letter prepared for the state's most senior water bureaucrat.
20 Nov 09 | TASMANIA: Japanese whalers have set a course for waters off the Australian Antarctic Territory, and their third season since the Rudd Government came to power vowing to end Southern Ocean whaling.
20 Nov 09 | BEFORE she murdered her two-year-old son, Rachel Pfitzner used to lock him out of the house. Every week their neighbours in Rosemeadow saw Dean Shillingsworth pounding on the glass doors, pleading to be let in. ''Mummy, Mummy, I am sorry,'' the banished toddler would cry.
20 Nov 09 | WHEN a clinical support officer, Amy Menegazzo, started her job three weeks ago, she was welcomed with open arms.
20 Nov 09 | LIZ McCALL spends most of her time holed up in an office buried in paperwork. The nurse unit manager is a de facto payroll officer, recruitment agent, stores manager and, not by choice, a data entry expert.
20 Nov 09 | FIREFIGHTERS have urged politicians to act on climate change as the country faces catastrophic fire warnings and unseasonal heatwaves.
20 Nov 09 | FIVE major fires are burning in NSW as the state swelters in a heatwave that has seen decades old records fall.
20 Nov 09 | A NEW technology using algae to recycle carbon emissions from coal-fired power stations will be given a boost today when Queensland's Premier, Anna Bligh, announces the construction of a demonstration project at one of the state's largest power plants, Tarong.
20 Nov 09 | IF THE major parties do not agree to an inquiry into Scientology, Nick Xenophon will just keep telling horror stories about the religion until they do.
20 Nov 09 | CHILD welfare advocates are pressing the Federal Government to create a national children's commissioner, as promised by Labor in opposition in 2003.
20 Nov 09 | THE Defence Force has completed 18 months of intensive research to find out why women are reluctant to join the military and why so many of these who enlist do not stay.
20 Nov 09 | SPARE a thought for the person on the line before you next hang up in frustration on a call-centre operator.
20 Nov 09 | Being bullied at school has left almost seven out of 10 adults suffering from low self-esteem and a lack of assertiveness, new research says.