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09 Apr 09 | HOSPITAL bosses scrambled last night to find emergency accommodation for more than 180 patients, carers, nurses and doctors evicted from their rooms with less than 48 hours' notice.
09 Apr 09 | SHOPPING and commercial districts across Sydney and regional NSW will grow higher and expand into areas now zoned residential only under a new policy designed to make it easier for developers to build retail centres.
09 Apr 09 | THERE are few places in Sydney where you can orient yourself by an amphitheatre and a milking barn, but the uniqueness of the Sydney Royal Easter Show has a strange familiarity about it. It generates a fervour - and a smell - that is rarely replicated any other time of the year.
09 Apr 09 | WORKERS who have lost their jobs as part of the new employment services system are asking the Federal Government to direct successful service providers to give them priority on newly created positions.
09 Apr 09 | DISTRAUGHT residents of a Bondi Junction apartment block left uninhabitable for at least six months after a gas explosion are considering a class action to fight for compensation.
09 Apr 09 | AS THE head of the state's union movement, John Robertson styled himself as the last great blue-collar hero, defending Labor tradition against the Iemma government's plans to sell the state's electricity industry.
09 Apr 09 | THERE are glimmers of light in the economic outlook - the question is whether to believe them.
09 Apr 09 | BURWOOD Council will establish a "code of conduct review panel" to investigate allegations its general manager used council staff and resources to improve his house and an investment property.
09 Apr 09 | THE Productivity Commission will try to put a price on the work done by charities and not-for-profit organisations before a possible shake-up in the system.
09 Apr 09 | THE rise in extreme temperatures in Australia because of climate change may not be quite as big as some feared but it will still cause grave problems for human health, infrastructure, animals and plants, a study by scientists from the University of NSW finds.
09 Apr 09 | MOTORISTS have forked out almost $2 billion on tolls since 2004, helped along by commuters who are forced to spend as much as $24 a day to drive from the public transport wastelands of north-western Sydney, figures reveal.
09 Apr 09 | THE latest man arrested for alleged sexual assault at Knox Grammar School, was still working as a teacher in Victoria.
09 Apr 09 | A BOATLOAD of asylum seekers, the third in a fortnight, has turned up in Australian waters, as a mix of repression and the global financial crisis generates a wave of fugitives fleeing to countries like Australia.
09 Apr 09 | THE CHINESE Government had a large stake in the company used by the businesswoman Helen Liu to help fund Joel Fitzgibbon's 1998 re-election.
09 Apr 09 | IMPROVEMENTS in crash safety have led to a design flaw in some cars that could obscure the driver's view of pedestrians or vehicles, an NRMA study says.
09 Apr 09 | SUBMARINERS have collapsed from exhaustion and been subject to inhumane work practices by a dysfunctional leadership regime that has led to high risk of a "catastrophic accident".
09 Apr 09 | Health Services Union officials believe union credit cards were used to spend at least $104,000 on federal Labor MP Craig Thomson's political campaign for the Central Coast seat of Dobell before the 2007 election.
09 Apr 09 | GOVERNMENTS and industry would have to disprove native title exists when a claim is made and claimants and governments would be able to disregard the "bucket loads of extinguishment" created by the Native Title Act under reforms suggested by the Chief Justice of the High Court, Robert French.
09 Apr 09 | UNTIL this week, at least, Craig Thomson has been seen as one of the up-and-comers in the federal Labor Party.
09 Apr 09 | THE Industrial Registrar is examining allegations of financial irregularities in the Health Services Union following revelations that the Labor MP and former union chief Craig Thomson's credit card was used to pay for escort services and to withdraw sums of cash totalling more than $100,000.