Cries for Shellay to be helped went unheard
THE Iemma Government was under pressure last night to explain its
inaction over the death of seven-year-old Shellay Ward, as it
emerged that the NSW Department of Community Services had been
repeatedly warned about the plight of the child and the conditions
she lived in.
Macquarie Uni falls in list
AUSTRALIAN universities have slipped in one of the most respected world rankings. The most dramatic drop was suffered by Macquarie University - jeopardising a $100,000 bonus for its vice-chancellor, Steven Schwartz.
Minister rejects call for phased-in baby bonus
THE baby bonus hits $5000 in July, prompting calls for the
Government to prevent a repeat birthing boilover.
Penrith Lakes project stalled by takeovers
A SYNDICATE of multibillion-dollar international companies has gone cold on a 20-year-old scheme to flood Australia's biggest sand and gravel quarry and create a $2 billion resort-style lakeside development.
Baby boomers carrying Rudd
If Kevin Rudd wins the election on November 24, he will probably
have baby boomers to thank.
- PM presses home the fear factor
- Record labour force in big shift to full-time work
- Labor backs free admission for carers
- One law changes, 57 stay? No thanks
- Wages likely to blow out state budgets
- More to get done - and the extra money helps
- Stephanie Peatling: Inner greenies alive and well
- Marianne Wilkinson: Conviction served with fudge as environment foes spin to win
- I got it wrong, Dr Karl admits
- Annabel Crabb: Sorry's still the hardest word
- Good news after Abbott's bad hair day
- Turnbull denies $500m unspent
All that rain's been bloomin' useless
SYDNEY has had more rain in the past eight days than it usually gets in all of November, but it has barely lifted dam levels and has not helped clear the blue-green algal bloom that has taken over the city's biggest dam.
Newman led lover down the drug path, court hears
A FORMER girlfriend of AFL personality Sam Newman became a cocaine
addict after being exposed to excessive drug use during their
relationship, a Melbourne court has been told.
Law to get tough on truancy
THE State Government has prosecuted 100 parents for failing to send their children to school in the past three years, but it has vowed to come down harder on more parents in the future.
Schoolboy Julian's lifesaving MythBuster moment
Mark O'Dwyer owes his life to a 14-year-old punk rocker and an edgy
television science program.
Worm is giving uni students a wriggle on in lectures
THE artful worm has slithered off the TV screen and into universities, where academics are evaluating its performance in making lectures more interactive.
NSW may ban smoking in cars
THE Premier, Morris Iemma, says the Government may ban parents in
cars smoking in front of their children.
High Court quashes appeal hope of Janine Balding's killers
TWO men convicted of the rape and murder of a 20-year-old Sydney woman, Janine Balding, in 1988 have had their latest, and possibly last, bid for freedom rejected.
Chant's brother unaware of grisly death
BY NOW, most of Australia is familiar with the shocking death of
Wayne Chant. But the news has not yet reached the person who most
needs to know: his brother.
Hamlet shaken by murder then suicide
A SUCCESSFUL businessman with a large property in the shadow of a mountain range near the NSW hamlet of Michelago has shocked the local community by driving to the outskirts of Canberra and shooting another man dead.
'Rewritten' report reason queried
AN AMBULANCE officer who did not take a seriously ill woman to
hospital in August last year might have deliberately rewritten his
records to make it look he had done a more thorough job, the Glebe
Coroner's Court heard yesterday.
Bindeez bead puts baby in hospital
A 17-MONTH-OLD boy was in a serious but stable condition in John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle last night after he swallowed a bead from a now-banned Bindeez toy.
Indigenous health officials stage boycott
REPRESENTATIVES of Aboriginal health workers in the Northern Territory will not attend a meeting in Darwin today because they say it is a four-hour $50,000 gabfest.
Betfair vetoed by Egan
THE former treasurer Michael Egan knocked back overtures from James Packer for the introduction of Betfair in NSW at a meeting in 2004, senior government sources have confirmed.
Officer stabbed outside home
POLICE are hunting for a knife-wielding man who stabbed and bashed an off-duty police officer at Randwick yesterday.
Correction
YESTERDAY'S article "Double jeopardy for home buyers" should not have said the economist Helen Kevans worked for ANZ. She is employed by J.P. Morgan.
