13/10/2008 | The chairman of Westfield Group, Frank Lowy, warns that all sport will have to contract in order to survive the credit squeeze.
13/10/2008 | THE Australian Federal Police has assisted in three foreign police investigations after charges which could lead to the death penalty were laid, highlighting the Federal Government's erratic commitment to its international obligations in opposing capital punishment, according to civil liberty advocates.
13/10/2008 | Thursday's graphic "Gong sounds on council's sex, greed saga" should not have said that Rod Oxley, the former general manager of Wollongong City Council, had been found by ICAC to have engaged in corrupt conduct nor that ICAC had recommended that the DPP obtain advice about possible prosecution. In fact, ICAC found Mr Oxley had conducted himself in a manner "liable to allow, encourage or cause the occurrence of corrupt conduct" at the council. It did not recommend that prosecution be considered.
13/10/2008 | The most lasting fallout of the global financial crisis is unlikely to be economic. This is the nature of true financial disaster: in the long run it brings down ideas, recasts societies and redistrib...
13/10/2008 | THE wife of a convener of the Australian Conservation Foundation is being charged with the alleged removal of 150 trees on the couple's Blue Mountains property.
13/10/2008 | KEVIN RUDD'S twin assurances yesterday to guarantee all deposit accounts and the money our banks borrowed were not motivated by any information a bank was about to fall over.
Instead, they were...
13/10/2008 | THE advertising watchdog is to investigate a poster aimed at circumventing a ban on the use of the phrase "longer-lasting sex".
13/10/2008 | Wisdom is one of those words most people agree is a good thing to have in theory, although they can't actually recall ever needing to use it much in their lives. Wisdom is a mental aberration only...
13/10/2008 | THE flawed scheme to cut greenhouse gas abatements by giving away lightbulbs has squandered an estimated $60 million of NSW taxpayers' money, the State Opposition says.
13/10/2008 | DECLARING the global financial crisis had entered a new and dangerous phase, Kevin Rudd said his Government would guarantee the estimated $700 billion that Australians have deposited in banks, credit unions and building societies.
13/10/2008 | DISSATISFACTION with immigration is rising across the country, and NSW is the state most set on reducing migrant numbers.
Between 2004 and 2007 the proportion of voters who wanted the migrant inta...
13/10/2008 | SYDNEY's inner- and medium-ring suburbs have become a patchwork of religious enclaves, with minority religions making up to 40 per cent of the population in some areas.
13/10/2008 | THE Australian Education Union has challenged the Federal Government to "put its money where its mouth is" on its promise of an education revolution after a damning national survey revealed mo...
13/10/2008 | THE NSW Treasurer has warned of higher taxes and falling corporate investment if the state loses its AAA credit rating, but business chiefs said strategic spending on transport and infrastructure was ...
13/10/2008 | The NSW Secondary Principals' Council has written a damning criticism of a draft document that has been prepared for all the education ministers in Australia.
13/10/2008 | IT HAS become almost a ritual in itself. A religious community proposes building a place of worship or learning, and encounters the wrath of thousands of residents.
There are furious mass meetings,...
13/10/2008 | THE Bali bombers will receive special treatment in paradise after their execution, the radical cleric and former spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiah, Abu Bakar Bashir told the Herald.
13/10/2008 | THE Anglican Church should expect its congregations to experience more anxiety than has been seen for many years because of the economic crisis facing Australia and the world, the Anglican Archbishop ...
13/10/2008 | SYDNEY UNIVERSITY'S deputy vice-chancellor, Don Nutbeam, has been appointed vice-chancellor of a British university.
Professor Nutbeam, an expert on public health, is a former student at the U...
12/10/2008 | TOURISM chiefs have had to defend a new $40 million advertising campaign inspired by the film Australia after an expert criticised it for targeting city-dwelling white-collar professionals to the exclusion of older tourists, families and singles.
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