National News
26 Oct 09 | TOBY ROBERTSON is an only child. He was a toddler when his mother, Cath, received the devastating diagnosis of breast cancer, so the sibling his parents wanted to give him was not to be.
26 Oct 09 | POLICE say they will use force if hunger-striking Sri Lankan asylum seekers refuse to leave an Australian Customs ship expected to dock today at the Indonesian port of Tanjung Pinang, where they will be housed in a heavily guarded detention centre.
26 Oct 09 | THE State Government agency building Sydney's controversial $5.3 billion City Metro has vastly overestimated the number of people who will use the service, official figures reveal.
25 Oct 09 | A 19-YEAR-OLD Chinese man was beaten, threatened with a gun and shot with a stun gun in a seven-hour ordeal, a court heard yesterday.
25 Oct 09 | AUSTRALIAN farmers may be forced by an international environmental treaty to stop using a dangerous insecticide already banned in more than 60 countries.
25 Oct 09 | FELICITY BOATH is keenly watching the cost of her dream six-week trip to the United States come down further and further.
25 Oct 09 | TRAVEL agents are predicting a mass exodus from the country as Australians book overseas holidays buoyed by renewed consumer confidence, low airfares and the surging dollar.
25 Oct 09 | WHEN Deborah Hutton first saw her pup Billie, the venue couldn't have been more unusual.
25 Oct 09 | IT IS a tale of canine camaraderie that touched the hearts of the vets who treated them.
25 Oct 09 | CLICK CLACK front and … bark?
25 Oct 09 | GOLF professional Scott Martyn knows how important it is to lead an active, healthy life.
25 Oct 09 | FORMER ultra-marathon runner and Howard government frontbencher Pat Farmer has accused his own party of deserting him in a preselection battle.
25 Oct 09 | LODGING your tax return will be no harder than placing a bet if a committee headed by Treasury secretary Ken Henry gets its way.
25 Oct 09 | SCHOOL principals have been called to a conference on cyber-bullying with the Federal Government.
25 Oct 09 | IT MAY not look like much right now but the peers of murdered Henry Lin hope that in time this memorial garden will grow to be as bright as the life of their dear friend.
25 Oct 09 | KYLIE GIBSON knew there was a problem with her son Joshua when the skin on his tiny ankles peeled away where he was pulled out of the womb by doctors at his caesarean birth. There was skin missing from his fingers, where he had sucked on them in utero.
25 Oct 09 | THE leading Liberals at the centre of a spectacular factional falling-out have made a public show of peace.
25 Oct 09 | A CHILD had to be revived after a sheet of glass fell on him in Sydney's north yesterday.
25 Oct 09 | At the age of six Chad Landouw is already a hero, having battled leukaemia for much of his young life.
25 Oct 09 | AN AUSTRALIAN man charged with storing 150,000 child pornography images on his computer has been remanded in custody.