8:32 AM AWDT | AUSTRALIA's drug regulator has issued a new warning about the popular quit-smoking pill Champix, which it linked to depression, aggression and suicidal thoughts and behaviour in some users.
8:30 AM AWDT | THE price of petrol should drop to 90 cents a litre at service stations across Sydney in the coming weeks following dramatic falls in the price of oil, according to analysts from the NRMA and CommSec.
1/12/2008 | A CARTOONISTS' dream encountered a politicians' nightmare yesterday as Peter Garrett named the Australian Financial Review artist David Rowe the best political cartoonist of the year.
1/12/2008 | SOME laws protecting the environment will not apply to organisers of the V8 supercars race proposed for Homebush next December, under a bill to be debated in State Parliament today.
1/12/2008 | THE $170 million port facility expansion at Port Kembla was trumpeted by the State Government as the end of car import operations in Sydney.
1/12/2008 | JOHN DELLA BOSCA'S closest backer, the Health Services Union, has convinced him to reverse a decision made just two months ago so that responsibility for rescue services will be handed back to the NSW Ambulance Service.
1/12/2008 | THOUSANDS of independent schools could be deprived of government funding next year because of a political impasse over Federal Government plans to force them to teach a national curriculum and disclose their sources of private income.
1/12/2008 | Yesterday's report "Honouring the '39ers" should have quoted the headmaster of Shore, Dr Tim Wright, as saying that a recent casualty in Afghanistan was an old boy of a brother GPS school of Shore.
1/12/2008 | Riding in a glass enclosed box atop a silver Mazda, the Pope created quite a stir when he arrived at North Sydney Oval during a World Youth Day event earlier this year.
1/12/2008 | STATE education systems will be rewarded for giving school principals greater control over budgets, including teacher salaries.
In NSW, the Department of Education has central control over staffin...
1/12/2008 | If Malcolm Turnbull and his colleagues are looking for a letter to use as a weapon against the Rudd Government, they would be well advised to commence at the end of the alphabet and move backwards. Cu...
1/12/2008 | IT COST more than $1.6 million, but the plan to fix Sydney's woeful ferry service has resulted in almost zilch.
1/12/2008 | DISABLED motorists will be forced to pay between $40 and $60 for their "free" e-tag from next month when the Harbour Bridge goes cashless. And drivers who do not use their e-tag regularly will have to pay a fee, the NSW Opposition has warned.
1/12/2008 | THE movements of serial pedophile Kenneth Davidson Tillman should be monitored for the next five years to ensure public safety, a court has heard.
1/12/2008 | BACKYARD swimming pools that do not meet safety standards because they were built before the 1992 Swimming Pool Act should be compulsorily upgraded when the property is sold, the Royal Life Saving Society says.
1/12/2008 | A DECISION made in May to spend billions of dollars held in reserve could prevent the nation going into deficit, senior Government figures say.
The budget is hovering just above the red after the ...
1/12/2008 | A NEW body designed to support consumers' rights against telecommunications providers will be set up by the Federal Government.
1/12/2008 | A SECTION of the Coxs River in the Blue Mountains that supplies drinking water to Sydney is so polluted by industrial run-off that it is effectively dead, independent water quality tests show.
1/12/2008 | A CENTRAL plank of the NSW Government's climate change plan has been delayed. Targets for statewide energy efficiency improvements have been put back to next July.
1/12/2008 | THE economic crisis is producing a new round of winners and losers as the Reserve Bank slashes interest rates for home owners, consumer prices continue to fall, and pensioners and families line up for cash bonuses.
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