9/09/2008 | A FORMER state Liberal Party vice-president, Alexander Stanislaw Howen, has been struck off as a barrister for professional misconduct.
9/09/2008 | SYDNEY'S merchant bankers have stopped upgrading their prestige homes - sales volume is down by almost half in Mosman, Bellevue Hill, Palm Beach and Vaucluse.
Their inactivity has triggered a ...
9/09/2008 | IT IS the tale of two schools. The Camden residents' group that fought a Muslim society's proposal for a school in rural Camden has welcomed a Catholic organisation's plans to build a school nearby because "Catholics are part of our community".
9/09/2008 | A FORMER RailCorp employee who was able to go overseas on numerous scuba-diving holidays thanks to his underhand takings is expected to face criminal charges after an extensive investigation by the corruption watchdog.
9/09/2008 | ALMOST three months in political exile seem to have done John Della Bosca the world of good.
Looking much slimmer and healthier, he was sworn in as Health Minister in the new cabinet yesterday aft...
9/09/2008 | THE new Planning Minister, Kristina Keneally, has been a big campaign fund-raiser for the NSW Labor Party, securing donations from developers and redistributing them to other ALP candidates and minist...
9/09/2008 | AN INDEPENDENT councillor from the Sutherland Shire has received more political donations than any other Sydney councillor over the past four years - including one donation from the developer of a con...
9/09/2008 | ANGELA LIATI had not intended to break the law but was acting as a "solitary crusader" when she tried to help the former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld out of a traffic offence scandal, a court has been told.
9/09/2008 | Exclusive: Australia's most respected climate scientists have condemned the advice of greenhouse adviser Ross Garnaut and urged the Federal Government to take a more aggressive position at global climate change negotiations.
9/09/2008 | THE proud new Premier has dubbed them his A-Team. They will need every bit of that so-called talent if his Government and the precarious NSW economy are to survive the next 2½ years.
9/09/2008 | A NETWORK of Christian youth ministries with links to the Hillsong Church is attempting to recruit members in public schools through free lunchtime concerts and barbecues called "Exo days", church manuals reveal.
9/09/2008 | HALF of all people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder who stop taking their medication will attempt suicide and 40 per cent will end up in prison, placing a huge emotional and financial burden on their families and society, an international study has found.
9/09/2008 | THE substitution of cheap mutton and hogget for lamb is a problem that needs to be tackled with tougher enforcement, a Senate committee says in its interim report into meat marketing.
9/09/2008 | THE Australian wool industry says it may have found a silver-bullet solution to the mulesing issue that has plagued it for the past four years.
9/09/2008 | THE Premier, Nathan Rees, said his cabinet represented an "extraordinary change of the landscape" despite criticisms that it was a recycled front bench picked by the ALP head office.
9/09/2008 | THE decision by the Premier, Nathan Rees, to appoint himself Arts Minister is a rare piece of good news for a sector that had deteriorated under Morris Iemma, a politician with an apparent allergy to ...
9/09/2008 | ALLEGATIONS in a submission to a parliamentary inquiry into whistleblowers will increase pressure on the new Premier, Nathan Rees, to explain whether he knew about criminal allegations against his for...
9/09/2008 | STANDING beneath the heavy canvas of a Tukul tent, Tonia Marquardt almost forgets that she is in the heart of suburban Sydney and not a refugee camp on the plains of Liberia.
9/09/2008 | THE new state Treasurer, Eric Roozendaal, might be accustomed to the grime of Labor Party machine politics, but he will face a particularly dirty job grappling with the state economy.
9/09/2008 | NSW residents are the most worried of those in all the mainland states and territories about losing their jobs and have the least confidence in the quality of their political leaders, a Sensis survey has found.