National News
12 Apr 09 | IT WAS the biggest day of Sydney's autumn racing carnival and the star-studded crowd turned traditional race fashions on their head.
12 Apr 09 | THE crowds came for the showbags, stayed for the rides, but hopefully left with a better understanding of regional Australia after a bumper weekend at the Sydney Royal Easter Show.
12 Apr 09 | FIRST there was the SNAG, then came the metrosexual, retrosexual and now - if marketers are to be believed - the neosexual.
11 Apr 09 | THERE'S an unlikely new weapon in the campaign against climate change. The Tupperware party, where people gather to hear the virtues of the plastic food containers (and buy them), is being used to communicate a message about the environmental cost of wasting food.
11 Apr 09 | THE dream of home ownership has come true for Paul and Candice Millett, right down to the picket fence.
11 Apr 09 | KIM JONG-IL fired a rocket into space and missed. The moon's a balloon and Kim's a buffoon. He's a pisspot despot, a four-eyed excess of evil.
11 Apr 09 | HIGHWAY patrol officers in Sydney who are supposed to be keeping a lid on road fatalities this long weekend will spend some of their time chasing bikies instead.
11 Apr 09 | In the first of a new series, John Huxley talks to ordinary people about the less ordinary bits of their lives.
11 Apr 09 | ON WASTELAND barely three kilometres from a museum that is celebrating their contribution to the city's transport system, historic Sydney trams are rotting and the heritage-listed shed in which they are parked is crumbling.
11 Apr 09 | COLD, rainy days have a surprising silver lining. The wet weather makes people feel more gloomy but this improves their memory, a new study carried out in a Sydney newsagency shows.
11 Apr 09 | THE Premier, Nathan Rees, may be called to give evidence in the Supreme Court hearing into the sacking of his former assistant health minister, Tony Stewart, who is suing for unfair dismissal.
11 Apr 09 | PROBLEM gambling involving poker machines has decreased and there should be greater concentration on the ills of internet gambling, the club movement has argued in a submission to the Productivity Commission.
11 Apr 09 | AS THE economic crisis continues to bite, increasing numbers of recreational anglers are casting off in Sydney Harbour, hoping the fish will bite too.
11 Apr 09 | CAMPSITES on the coast will be packed with families wanting to escape financial woes and looking for a cheap holiday this Easter long weekend.
11 Apr 09 | LARGE numbers of sole parents are expected to move from the parenting payment to carer or disability pensions if they miss out on the mooted $30 increase for pensioners in the federal budget.
11 Apr 09 | PRIMARY school principals will be given greater choice in how they spend their capital funding windfall after complaints about the State Government's rush to provide them with prefabricated buildings.
11 Apr 09 | THE Federal Government is claiming success for one of its most controversial welfare reforms, with evidence that more than 90 per cent of welfare payments quarantined across northern and central Australia have been spent in shops that sell mostly food and clothing.
11 Apr 09 | WITH no department and not even its own website, the NSW Ministry for Small Business barely exists.
11 Apr 09 | WOULD you work a 14-hour day if you only had to go to the office for three days a week? It's one idea put forward by a Labor MP to allow politicians to spend less time in Canberra and more time with their families and the people who voted for them.
11 Apr 09 | THE Federal Labor MP Craig Thomson was owed more than $190,000 in employment entitlements when he quit the Health Services Union to enter Parliament after the 2007 election.