21/11/2008 | "THE only thing we have to fear is fear itself." It was the US president Franklin D. Roosevelt who, in the Great Depression, coined the phrase but Australia's Reserve Bank governor, Glenn ...
21/11/2008 | FROM December 21 David Hicks will be a free man.
21/11/2008 | THE Australian film and television industry has launched legal action against one of the largest internet service providers in the country for allowing its users to download pirated movies and TV shows.
21/11/2008 | SERIAL pedophile Kenneth Davidson Tillman, the first man held beyond his sentence under the Serious Sex Offenders legislation introduced in 2006, has been released from prison but faces more charges of sexual assault against a minor.
21/11/2008 | TIMOTHY McCORMACK produced four excellent character references to persuade a judge to give him a lighter sentence for faking his engineering credentials to work on Qantas aircraft.
21/11/2008 | ANIMAL welfare activists are threatening to widen international boycotts of Australian wool if the industry does not recommit to end the controversial practice of "mulesing" sheep.
21/11/2008 | THE retail king Gerry Harvey may have a personal fortune of about $1.6 billion but the Harvey Norman founder thinks donating to charity is "just wasted".
21/11/2008 | CANCER researchers, including the inventor of the cervical cancer vaccine, Professor Ian Frazer, have stepped up calls for a revision of patent laws that allow private firms to claim ownership of human genes, as concern mounts that the laws could hinder the development of new treatments.
21/11/2008 | THE Government is refusing to commit to key recommendation's in a scathing Ombudsman's report into the use of Tasers in NSW.
21/11/2008 | It has been four weeks since Margaret Dallman had the most recent injection into her eyes and already her vision is starting to distort.
21/11/2008 | IS THIS the biggest bargain in Sydney?
21/11/2008 | A "COLLECTIVE loss of morale" is driving senior doctors out of public hospitals and into the private system, the state's biggest medical compensation group says.
21/11/2008 | A DECADE-LONG battle to save the historic North Sydney mansion Graythwaite has failed after a court ordered it be sold by the State Government.
Proceeds from the rundown sandstone property and its...
21/11/2008 | A SKINNY kid with tousled hair fidgets nervously in a grand hall of Government House as he waits for his name to be called.
21/11/2008 | HOUR-LONG phone queues, multiple transfers, hollow promises of people getting back to you
and the automated voice telling you your call is important. Soaring complaints over customer service from telecommunications companies have prompted the Federal Government to crack down on the self-regulated sector.
21/11/2008 | THOUSANDS of people have donated money to help the family of two boys and their father who died in Tuesday's Tathra wharf tragedy.
21/11/2008 | SOME Muslim religious leaders are condoning rape within marriage, domestic violence, polygamy, welfare fraud and the exploitation of women, a report on imam training has found.
21/11/2008 | THE Federal Government has refused to entertain publicly the prospect of a budget deficit to stave off a recession, despite being given the green light by the governor of the Reserve Bank, Glenn Stevens.
20/11/2008 | Donations are flooding in for the young NSW woman devastated by the loss of her fiance and two sons in Tuesday's wharf tragedy at Tathra.
Shane O'Neill died after plunging into t...
20/11/2008 | THE troubled wool industry is likely to face pressure from animal welfare groups now that the board of the industry's research and marketing body is controlled by directors who are not committed to honouring a pledge to end mulesing by the end of 2010.
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