4:06 PM AEST | A defiant Morris Iemma will sell parts of NSW's electricity assets under a proposal that does not require Parliament's approval.
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 | 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 | Drug companies had a "major influence" on what doctors prescribed - almost two-thirds of them meet pharmaceutical representatives an average of seven times a month, a Choice survey has found.
28/08/2008 | KEVIN RUDD and Woodside Petroleum have locked horns after the oil and gas giant said it would pass on to consumers the $2.5 billion tax impost on condensate, the light-crude oil it extracts from North-West Shelf gas.
28/08/2008 | INFLATION is hitting the hip pockets of working families harder than any other group, new figures show.
While average consumer prices rose 4.5 per cent last financial year, inflation in the basket...
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 | KEVIN RUDD is playing an old but reliable political gambit - to define yourself, pick a fight.
And his truculent declaration that he wants some "argy bargy" on "hard principles" of...
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 | Small businesses in NSW are heading for the abyss, or so they reckon.
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...