National News
10 Apr 09 | Loopholes allow an unapproved heroin treatment to flourish amid serious health concerns.
10 Apr 09 | The implant was meant to protect James from needing heroin and from the narcotic's effects, but he died, just 23, with the naltrexone implanted under the skin on his stomach, his body full of heroin, methamphetamine and benzodiazapines.
10 Apr 09 | PROPERTY analysts have called for urgent Federal Government action to prevent a property bubble bursting after the $21,000 first-home grant expires on June 30.
10 Apr 09 | THE tide has turned on Sydney's upper rental market, as properties lie vacant and landlords are forced to slice asking prices by as much as 20 per cent.
10 Apr 09 | THERE will be no mad dashing around to inspect "for sale" properties for Robert Byrne and Emer Francis this morning.
09 Apr 09 | THE Minister for Defence, Joel Fitzgibbon, has rejected Opposition attacks that he is a "dead man walking" following controversies over his friendship with the businesswoman Helen Liu and the SAS pay bungle.
09 Apr 09 | STRAPPING on a scuba mask and plunging into freezing water to explore the underside of an iceberg in Antarctica may not be everyone's idea of a great summer holiday, but it is a market that is flourishing.
09 Apr 09 | TODAY, under an assumed name, Hunter will show in the Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog Open Class at the Royal Easter Show.
09 Apr 09 | ASSAULTS on staff and assaults and rapes of inmates in juvenile detention centres are up about 30 per cent, with the Government being blamed for the increase due to overcrowding caused by tough new bail legislation and cuts in last year's mini-budget.
09 Apr 09 | AUSTRALIA has been swept up in a "global moral crisis", which has licensed violence on the streets, abuse in the home, cowardice in politics and greed in the corporate world, says one of Sydney's leading churchmen.
09 Apr 09 | THE days of losing demerit points for exceeding the speed limit by a small margin are not yet over, and double-demerit points will apply over the Easter long weekend.
09 Apr 09 | MOTORISTS who see petrol stations driving up their prices over Easter should report them, the NRMA said yesterday.
09 Apr 09 | Michael Duffy joined the poet Les Murray for a stroll down a Hunter memory lane, and a peek into the future.
09 Apr 09 | PAID maternity leave is a better way of stimulating the economy than the $900 bonus payments, a coalition of social welfare organisations says.
09 Apr 09 | THE man accused of killing six partygoers when the boat he was allegedly in command of crashed in Sydney Harbour last year has been released on bail from jail.
09 Apr 09 | DAMIEN PIERS VANCE smiled as he appeared in court yesterday on a charge relating to an alleged child sex ring at an exclusive Sydney private school.
09 Apr 09 | THE number of salmonella infections reported to NSW health authorities has jumped 37 per cent and poor handling of food, particularly raw eggs, is to blame.
09 Apr 09 | ACCORDING to the law of averages, Kenny Moylan should have died a year ago.
09 Apr 09 | A FLAT face, big eyes, small brows, little chin and patchy hair. Adult people look a lot like baby chimps.
09 Apr 09 | The US and Europe may be in the deepest recession since the 1930s, but the State Government will still pursue the sale of NSW Lotteries by year's end in the hope it will raise well in excess of $500 million.