40c top tax rate
THE Coalition has delivered the first king hit of the election.
- Tax table: $12,000 to $60,000
- Tax table: $65,000 to $120,000
- Peter Hartcher: Triumph won't help Howard's war
- A pocket full of sweeteners
- Working mothers, middle-income voters targets
- Phillip Coorey: Two old poker faces deal a tricky hand
- Poll: Coalition tax cuts
- Your say: Tax cuts
- Full election coverage
Ignore poll, Labor urges bank
KEVIN RUDD has said the Reserve Bank should adjust interest rates
as it sees fit without regard to the election campaign.
- Minerals boost PM's war chest
- Rudd yet to give the nod on Sunday debate
- Matt Wade: Bank may burst PM's bubble
- Annabel Crabb: Putting journos in charge: I'll drink to that
- Rudd meets nurses, Howard vows to fatten wallets
- The Stump: Slot in more pokies
- Brethren secretive on funds source: claim
- Hopefuls can't depend on how the land lies
- Mark Coultan: First appeals: one to the pocket, one to the heart
- Unis urge students to enrol
- Multimedia: Kelly country
- Video: Rap battle: Rudd v Howard
- Slideshow: Prorogation of parliament
Night of crisis at hospital
ROYAL North Shore Hospital's emergency department was on its knees the night Jana Horska miscarried in a public toilet of its waiting room, but the hospital has refused to concede just how overcrowded it was.
Iemma blocks questions about Orkopoulos affair
MORRIS IEMMA refused to allow his chief of staff, Mike Kaiser, or any other adviser to be questioned at a budget estimates hearing last night about the Orkopoulos affair - but he requested that the Herald give evidence.
Council knew of fault on road that collapsed
GOSFORD City Council knew a road had structural problems at least three years before it collapsed in storms killing five members of one family.
Web browsing with no strings attached
A NUMBER of Australian broadband providers are gearing up to launch so-called naked DSL plans, which will allow customers to bypass costly line rental charges.
Perks of old job a boon for Debus
NSW taxpayers have been forking out thousands of dollars for a
phone bill and a part-time secretary for the federal Labor
candidate for the seat of Macquarie, Bob Debus, under little-known
rights given by the State Government to its former ministers.
Cheap housing quota off the boil
THE NSW Government appears to be backing away from asking developers to provide affordable housing, days after announcing it was cutting levies to make it easier for first-home buyers to enter the market.
Luna Park may reap millions for $1 land buy
A PROPERTY developer stands to make an estimated $7 million by
selling the lease on a piece of Luna Park land that was bought from
the State Government for only $1.
Manly joins small bars push
SMALL bars could alleviate the problem of drunken violence, the mayor of the suburb worst hit by alcohol-related assaults said.
Bones could be from shipwreck victim
BONES found on a Kurnell beach might have been washed up from a
shipwreck, a forensic scientist said yesterday.
IVF treatment up for women in their 40s
WOMEN in their 40s hoping to defy their biological clock are trying for test-tube babies in increasing numbers despite a one in 10 chance of success per treatment cycle.
Couple's long road to vindication
Alan and Margaret Urwin spent seven years investigating a murder.
Kate McClymont reports on their fight for justice, which ended
yesterday with the conviction of a second killer.
Clip go the shearers in mulesing trial
THE legal battle between the wool industry and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals may be over, but the war over mulesing continues to rage from Hollywood to the back paddock. The weapons include everything from plastic skin clips to celebrity video clips.
Driver badly burnt as car blazes
A DRIVER was severely injured when his vehicle burst into flames,
leaving holes like gunshots along the side of the car.
Gammy back may halt toads' leap
FOR countless cane toads, invading Australia has become a pain in the back. Toads on the invasion's Northern Territory front line are developing severe arthritis, resulting in gross malformations of their spines.
Woman accused of murder denied bail
A WOMAN accused of stabbing to death her Scientologist father and teenage sister was suffering a psychotic episode and is likely to mount a mental illness defence, her doctor said.
Shark attack victim punched for her life
A WOMAN knocked from her surf ski by a white pointer shark near
Byron Bay fought off the predator with her paddle before making it
ashore with just a small bite wound to her wrist.
Children's magazines thick with junk food ads, study finds
WHILE the eyes of the regulators and public health officials are fixed squarely on television, the power of children's magazines to market junk food has remained under the radar. Until now.
