29/08/2008 | THE girlfriend of Cronulla rugby league star Greg Bird says her immediate concern is to recover from an eye injury and not clear the air about the night he allegedly hit her with a glass.
29/08/2008 | Graffiti painters may like leaving an elaborate signature on their creations, but now the chemical signature of the paint may prove their undoing.
29/08/2008 | NO BABY elephant has ever been born in Australia - but now three elephants are pregnant at zoos in Sydney and Melbourne.
29/08/2008 | ANY chance of full-on power privatisation died yesterday, with the Opposition refusing to give the Government the support it needed to get the legislation through Parliament.
29/08/2008 | THE first time Emily Chapman tried to end her life in Cumberland Hospital's psychiatric unit, she saved herself at the last minute by pressing the emergency button. But the response she received was far from compassionate.
29/08/2008 | A DEFIANT Morris Iemma will sell parts of the state's electricity assets under a face-saving proposal that does not require Parliament's approval.
29/08/2008 | Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard turned up the heat on the education unions yesterday with the Prime Minister telling them it was time to move into the 21st century.
29/08/2008 | UNSCRUPULOUS Sydney landlords are taking advantage of refugees with little or no experience of the city's tight rental market by getting them to sign exploitative rental contracts or evicting them in favour of richer tenants, community service workers say.
29/08/2008 | THE Federal Government is threatening to axe nearly one million individual dental services under its new program unless the Opposition gives way in the Senate and votes down the existing Medicare dental scheme for the chronically ill.
28/08/2008 | For years Father Brian Spillane presided over a flock of young, impressionable boys at St Stanislaus College in Bathurst.
28/08/2008 | THE head of the Independent Commission Against Corruption asked yesterday how NSW Fire Brigades was able to set budgets for capital works projects which, when brought in under budget, still brought in healthy returns for the contractors and for two of the brigades' project managers who were running a scam.
28/08/2008 | IT'S THE number that dare not speak its name: 58,785.
28/08/2008 | BARRY O'Farrell will deliver a humiliating blow to Morris Iemma's leadership today when he blocks the Government's plans to privatise the state's electricity industry and forces the Premier to back down from the proposal.
28/08/2008 | HUNDREDS of Australia's leading natural scientists are calling on the Premier to save the state's travelling stock routes used by drovers for generations, saying they provide a vital refuge fo...
28/08/2008 | WHEN the State Government dedicated a small chunk of Sydney to Jack Mundey last year, it was considered a fitting tribute to the leader of the 1970s green bans, who saved so much of Sydney's historic areas from developers.
28/08/2008 | Kevin Rudd has threatened the states and education unions by declaring future federal education funding will be conditional on information about the performance of individual schools being made available to parents.
28/08/2008 | Chronically ill patients who are desperate to get expensive dental care under a popular Medicare scheme before it is shut down may get a reprieve.
28/08/2008 | A TEENAGER who was shot in the head early yesterday morning does not appear to have been the target of the shooting, police say.
28/08/2008 | Brad Thompson of Nelson Bay was woken in the early hours of yesterday by screams coming from the house next door.
28/08/2008 | WOMEN'S sense of wellbeing has fallen to its lowest level in seven years as inflation erodes the family budget and creates concerns about future economic security, a new study shows.
The findi...