Doctor wins 21-year fight to build private hospital
Louise Hall THE medical entrepreneur contracted to build a private hospital on the grounds of Royal Prince Alfred has said the project will go ahead - more than two decades after it was announced.
Twenty-one years in jail 'never enough' for savage bashing
Louise Hall AN OFF-DUTY policewoman who was savagely bashed with a brick and left for dead says the maximum 21-year jail term handed down to her attacker would ''never be enough'' to atone for her physical and...
Court rejects mental illness defence for child abuse
Louise Hall and Kim Arlington A FORMER house mistress who sexually abused six boys at an exclusive school knew what she was doing was wrong, a judge found yesterday.
Keneally has eyes on her legacy with $2b boost for disability services
Louise Hall STATE POLITICS ON the anniversary of Kristina Keneally's pledge to put the most vulnerable people ''at the heart of government'', the Premier has announced $2 billion in new funding to reform the disability...
Boarding houses unsafe
Louise Hall STATE POLITICS WOMEN with disabilities who live in boarding houses experience domestic violence on a daily basis but most do not access support services, a report has found.
The last straw, a porn scandal
Sean Nicholls, Louise Hall and Brian Robins State Parliament is engulfed in yet more scandal as the government prepares to face the electorate, with an investigation into the possible use of child pornography in Parliament and a revelation...
Nurse ratio is double safe level: union
Louise Hall NURSES in public hospitals are caring for up to eight patients each, double the ratio the nurses' union says is needed for safe patient care.
Hospitals face more strikes as temperature rises
Louise Hall STATE POLITICS NURSES have pledged to shut down hospital beds next week if the state government does not meet their demands for mandated nurse-to-patient ratios.
Hearing criticises diagnosis by phone
Louise Hall A DOCTOR working for the erectile dysfunction company Advanced Medical Institute has been found guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct after he prescribed a $4000 nasal spray treatment after a...
DPP could lose power to insist on a jury trial
Louise Hall MORE defendants will face a judge, rather than a jury, under changes in the criminal trial laws being recommended by a parliamentary inquiry.
Left standing on the wharf - 27,000 ferry commuters
Louise Hall Sydney Ferries left more than 27,000 commuters stranded on wharves because of overcrowding last year and more than 357 services were cancelled, new government data shows.
Cancer patients wait 50 days for treatment
Louise Hall CANCER patients are waiting up to four times longer for radiation therapy than clinically recommended, new state government figures reveal, prolonging cancer symptoms and potentially affecting...
Crowded hospitals put more lives at risk
Louise Hall Major hospitals in NSW are chronically overcrowded, new state government figures reveal, causing long delays in emergency departments, increased cases of infections such as golden staph and even...
Forms were not false, D'Amore tells ICAC
Malcolm Brown and Louise Hall THE career of the state MP Angela D'Amore is on the line after a week-long public hearing of the Independent Commission Against Corruption where the commissioner, Justice David Ipp, questioned her...
Donation to Labor may have broken party developer ban
Louise Hall The Labor Party has accepted a donation from the company behind the biggest private hospital and health precinct in NSW, potentially breaking its own ban on developer donations and exposing it to...
Donations to NSW Opposition soar, but ...
Louise Hall STATE POLITICS DONATIONS to the NSW Opposition have surged ahead of those to Labor, with big business bankrolling the Liberals and Nationals to the tune of $2.76 million this year, against Labor's $1.88 million.
Distraught parents of disabled children warn of desperate fight for help
Louise Hall STATE POLITICS COMPLAINTS about the state's disability services and the multitude of non-government organisation it funds are ignored, leaving people vulnerable to abuse and neglect, a parliamentary inquiry has...
Mother branded mentally ill after complaint
Louise Hall A MOTHER who raised serious concerns about the care of her intellectually disabled daughter at a group home was taken to the Guardianship Tribunal where the state government tried to strip her...
Campbell retires as Labor looks to axe long-serving MPs
Louise Hall and Nicole Hasham A SENIOR transport bureaucrat and former chief-of-staff to David Campbell is shaping up as the MP's successor in the Labor stronghold of Keira, in the Illawarra.
Liberal spat: fish restaurateur is not the only one spitting chips
Mark Metherell and Louise Hall Two luminaries of the Liberal heartland seat of Vaucluse have shown just how deeply wounded they were to be passed over for preselection on Sunday.
