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 | POLICE have arrested a man suspected of assaulting six teenage girls and a woman at knife-point in western Sydney since April.
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 | THE head of the Independent Commission Against Corruption asked yesterday how NSW Fire Brigades was able to set budgets for capital works projects which, when brought in under budget, still brought in healthy returns for the contractors and for two of the brigades' project managers who were running a scam.
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 | IT'S THE number that dare not speak its name: 58,785.
28/08/2008 | CONCERNS about the cost of greenhouse gases to NSW power generators were underscored yesterday when the Treasurer, Michael Costa, announced changes to the electricity privatisation plans to shield taxpayers from future liability for the pollution.
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 | WHEN the State Government dedicated a small chunk of Sydney to Jack Mundey last year, it was considered a fitting tribute to the leader of the 1970s green bans, who saved so much of Sydney's historic areas from developers.
28/08/2008 | POLICE covered up for one of their officers who assaulted a man in Wagga Wagga and planted a carving knife at the scene to incriminate the victim, a court heard yesterday.
28/08/2008 | THE identity of a second man who was seen with accused murderer Gordon Wood on the night his girlfriend was allegedly thrown to her death might remain a mystery, a Supreme Court jury has heard.
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 | Chronically ill patients who are desperate to get expensive dental care under a popular Medicare scheme before it is shut down may get a reprieve.
28/08/2008 | A TEENAGER who was shot in the head early yesterday morning does not appear to have been the target of the shooting, police say.
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...