Metro & Regional
9:52 AM AEDT | Australians face the risk of falling living standards for the next decade as the country has fallen into a reform malaise, according to one of the country's leading economic authorities, Professor Ross Garnaut.
4:00 AM AEDT | The media, the Herald included, has copped some criticism over aspects of its coverage of the murder of the curator Nick Waterlow.
4:00 AM AEDT | TWELVE Australians are not yet accounted for in the region of Fiji battered by Cyclone Tomas.
4:00 AM AEDT | SCIENTISTS have shown for the first time that man-made climate change is the direct cause of changes to the life cycle of a native Australian animal species.
4:00 AM AEDT | TAXI driver James Young could not have picked a worse person to refuse a fare.
4:00 AM AEDT | The state government's plan to use the money from the sale of its waste services arm, WSN, to reduce borrowings or fund services has been blocked.
4:00 AM AEDT | RISING alcohol abuse in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific islands, partly spurred by Australian beer, has prompted calls for alcohol companies to contribute more to counter the problem.
4:00 AM AEDT | A DEMOTION to a minority government is the best result Labor can hope for in this weekend's South Australian election, strategists from both major parties believe.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE federal government's broadband plans are looking shakier by the day as it struggles to muster Senate support for legislation that would pave the way for Telstra's involvement in the network.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE federal government's refusal to declare it would take over the struggling mental health system in its health-reform blueprint has drawn fire from two psychiatric leaders, Patrick McGorry and Ian Hickie.
4:00 AM AEDT | BUD ABBOTT and Lou Costello, two American comedians who started out on the burlesque circuit last century, became famous for a routine ''Who's on first?'' featuring a long elaborate joke about confusing surnames.
4:00 AM AEDT | PETER COSTELLO'S attack on Tony Abbott's parental leave policy has been universally condemned by his former colleagues who suggested the former treasurer had given up his chance to lead the party and should therefore butt out.
4:00 AM AEDT | A CUP of coffee on Campbell Parade, Bondi, has always come with a pleasant view, but until now it has also come with a cloud of cigarette smoke.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE children of older mothers perform better in tests than those of younger women, Australian research has found.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE opposition has seized on a coroner's findings to accuse the government of acting irresponsibly by giving visas to Afghan refugees blamed for a deadly boat blast last year.
4:00 AM AEDT | AT LAST there's an attempt to cure Sydney's schizophrenic approach to planning.
4:00 AM AEDT | POPULATION growth forecast in the Metropolitan Strategy Review discussion paper would bring Sydney to a standstill unless shortfalls in public transport and housing were urgently dealt with, councils warned yesterday.
4:00 AM AEDT | Many believe autism only affects boys - mainly because the female variant is often harder to spot. This means thousands of girls may be going undiagnosed. Jeremy Laurance reports on the condition, which is now also being linked to eating disorders.
4:00 AM AEDT | WITH Sydney's population due to balloon 40 per cent in 30 years, new forecasts reveal the number of people in the south-west will more than double while those in the city centre will leap 60 per cent.
17 Mar 10 | The federal government is attempting to contact 17 Australians who have not been heard from since a tropical cyclone tore through Fiji's north this week.
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