National News
12 Sep 09 | THE State Government has toughened restrictions on major retailers opening on Boxing Day under legislation that also prevents shops from forcing staff to work on public holidays.
12 Sep 09 | NSW has topped the national spelling bee for the second year in a row.
12 Sep 09 | Ron and Roy Medich have moved on from their western Sydney origins, and from each other. Nick O'Malley, Vanda Carson and Kate McClymont report.
12 Sep 09 | THE billionaire developer who put up $100,000 for slain standover man Michael McGurk's bail on firebombing charges did not attend the funeral yesterday.
12 Sep 09 | THE quick reflexes and selfless attitude of a bus driver have been praised for averting a greater tragedy in a school bus crash yesterday that claimed the lives of two adults in a car.
12 Sep 09 | THE HSC is a blunt instrument that leaves many of the most talented students excluded from higher education, the head of Australia's oldest university says.
12 Sep 09 | THE billionaire developer who put up $100,000 for slain standover man Michael McGurk's bail on firebombing charges did not attend the funeral yesterday.
12 Sep 09 | MICHAEL McGURK'S death may have further undermined faith in Sydney property developers, the NSW Government and the ALP's right-wing, but the Catholic Church proudly claimed its man.
12 Sep 09 | THE quick reflexes and selfless attitude of a bus driver have been praised for averting a greater tragedy in a school bus crash yesterday that claimed the lives of two adults in a car.
12 Sep 09 | THE HSC is a blunt instrument that leaves many of the most talented students excluded from higher education, the head of Australia's oldest university says.
12 Sep 09 | A Sydney mountaineer has taken on the world's 14 highest peaks, writes Louise Southerden.
11 Sep 09 | Cast and crew of the television program Skippy were reunited last night at a screening of a new TV documentary, Skippy: Australia's First Superstar.
11 Sep 09 | AUSTRALIA has been rated as being at ''extreme risk'' in a new report because its heavily polluting energy industry is considered unsustainable in a world struggling to deal with climate change.
11 Sep 09 | THE Minister for Workplace Relations, Julia Gillard, faces another legislative headache with the possibility the Senate will reject her proposed changes to the building industry watchdog.
11 Sep 09 | AFTER breaking ranks with the Coalition over its opposition to publication of school league tables, the NSW Liberal MP Peter Debnam tried yesterday to broker an alternative plan with the Government and newspaper editors.
11 Sep 09 | PEOPLE looking for work can spend more than five years living on one of the lowest social security payments, new figures show.
11 Sep 09 | AS SHE put her two children to bed, she gave them rat poison mixed with sugar and told them there would be ''a bit of hurt'' before it was all over. ''Mummy will be there,'' she promised. Then she suffocated them and tried to take her own life.
11 Sep 09 | A BUSINESSMAN says he was forced to flee Australia and move to Hawaii after the murdered standover man Michael McGurk threatened to ruin his life.
11 Sep 09 | THE public could get a slice of the state's electricity industry in a public float if the Government fails to sell some of the assets directly to private buyers.
11 Sep 09 | In the first part of a series, Jessica Irvine visits the eastern suburbs to examine effects of the global financial crisis.