17 Oct 09 | IT speaks volumes for the power of Fuifui Moimoi that Jarryd Hayne, the man many have attempted to stop in recent weeks and months, spent yesterday discussing not the impact of himself but of his ...
17 Oct 09 | SAM THAIDAY and Johnathan Thurston recalled yesterday how they used to scribble down the names of their own indigenous all-stars teams, not thinking they would ever be part of one themselves. ...
17 Oct 09 | FORGET everything negative you've heard about NRL players this season. Because for every bad seed there's a Justin Poore, Joel Reddy or Tim Mannah.
17 Oct 09 | AUSTRALIAN skipper Darren Lockyer remains undecided about whether to make the Four Nations tour his final outing in a representative jumper, but his long-term halves partner Johnathan Thurston is already spooked by the prospect.
16 Oct 09 | Five Sydney men have been found guilty of conspiring to do acts to prepare a terrorist act.
16 Oct 09 | A declaration by Reserve Bank chief Glenn Stevens that the bank would not be ''timid'' about raising interest rates has led financial markets to tip seven interest rate rises in a row, while the dollar has surged to 92.23 US cents.
16 Oct 09 | It is turning into a bumper year for books about crooks, with Mick Gatto, Roberta Williams and Roger Rogerson so far scribbling memoirs. Now it is Debra Smith's turn.
16 Oct 09 | A FORMER school principal who sexually abused a student, and who told a court yesterday that he believed he was in love with her, faces up to eight years' jail.
16 Oct 09 | AUSTRALIA'S richest Anglican diocese will slash staff and ministries after revealing it lost $160 million on the sharemarket - $60 million more than reported at the height of the global sharemarket downturn.
16 Oct 09 | LOCAL job tsars appointed by the Federal Government in a $20 million scheme to help retrenched workers in regions worst hit by the financial crisis admit they will need to ''refocus'' as queues of jobless fail to materialise.
16 Oct 09 | PUBLIC hospitals are faring relatively well in terms of costs and patient pressures, a report has found, in contrast to the ''bleak'' assessment given by the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, this week.
16 Oct 09 | A SYDNEY barrister who dared to deliver a public criticism of the selection process for senior counsel in NSW has substantial support among his peers, according to a leading barristers' clerk.
16 Oct 09 | NSW Treasury officials have complained that the federal jobs stimulus package could have delivered more local jobs if funding arrangements were more flexible and allowed for a redistribution of funding between schools.
16 Oct 09 | THE owner of the country's most heavily polluting coal-fired power plant wants the Government to buy it out with public money rather than face the costs of carbon trading.
16 Oct 09 | THE National Trust has listed on its heritage register the grounds of Hurlstone Agriculture High School, 140 hectares of which the NSW Government plans to sell.
16 Oct 09 | THE contribution of ''extra'' foods like chips, sweets and fizzy drinks to Australian children's diets has fallen over the past decade, according to Sydney University analysis that suggests the healthy eating message may be getting through to parents.
16 Oct 09 | THE daughter of the planning department boss Sam Haddad, Caline, has been employed by a consulting firm that earns tens of thousands of dollars in consultancy fees each year from the department.
16 Oct 09 | A LUXURY car dealer has been arrested over an alleged $15 million fraud involving dozens of cars including Bentleys, Porsches, Lamborghinis and Ferraris.
16 Oct 09 | OFFICIALS from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade could be drawn into an investor class action against AWB Ltd after a Federal Court judge yesterday ordered lawyers be given a list of bureaucrats who received intelligence reports about Australia's trade with Iraq under the United Nations Oil for Food program.
16 Oct 09 | BIKASH BASNET said his mother would cry if he told her the truth about what he did in Australia. In Nepal he worked in marketing. Now he is a toilet cleaner, and has to clean 23 toilets a night.