National News
28 Jul 09 | LONG-TERM care of the growing number of people with chronic medical conditions would be supported by a beefed-up community health and out-patients sector, under reform commission proposals that aim to offer better access to health professionals such as psychologists, dietitians and speech therapists.
28 Jul 09 | THE NSW Minister for Health, John Della Bosca, shied away from endorsing a federal take-over of health care services yesterday, but he welcomed the recommendations of the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission for a universal dental scheme.
28 Jul 09 | IF THE outlook from climate change is as bleak as predicted, Australia should consider nuclear power, says the Coalition’s federal spokesman on agriculture, John Cobb.
28 Jul 09 | WHEN people ask Jim Johnston about his unusual middle name he tells them to sit down. It’s a long story.
28 Jul 09 | MEN accused of terrorist conspiracy had copied Commonwealth anti-terrorism legislation to their computers and appeared to have taken steps to conceal items they had accumulated allegedly for bomb-making, Parramatta Supreme Court heard yesterday.
28 Jul 09 | KASM Jones is 16, but believes he is just as capable of deciding who runs the country as his 18-year old friend, Troy Brennan.
28 Jul 09 | NSW lawyers want the Federal Government to subsidise legal services for working families under a Medicare-style scheme they say would win votes, discourage doomed lawsuits and cut court delays.
28 Jul 09 | DAVID SCOTT MATHERS and his partner of 22 years, Eva Griffith, had talked about her wish to die by an overdose of medication.
28 Jul 09 | ANY attempt by China to rally its diaspora communities for political purposes is unlikely to be effective and poses little threat of a ‘‘fifth column’’, analysts say.
28 Jul 09 | THREE State Government ministers have thrown a spanner in the works of plans by the Premier, Nathan Rees, to merge 160 agencies into 13 super ministries.
28 Jul 09 | A BITTER split among conservative Liberals in NSW, complete with sectarian undercurrents, is driving mainstream conservatives to side with the moderates and oppose preselection bids by what they consider to be extreme elements of the party.
28 Jul 09 | AUSTRALIA is about to see its first legal challenge to carbon emissions from a coal-fired power plant, after a Land and Environment Court case was initiated yesterday against Macquarie Generation, a NSW Government-owned utility.
28 Jul 09 | THE surviving members of the Lin family have undergone DNA tests as police struggle to identify a motive or suspect for the five North Epping murders.
28 Jul 09 | THE company behind what may be one of the largest immigration rackets ever reported in Australia is still in business four months after it was investigated because the Department of Immigration is not certain it has sufficient evidence to prosecute. The Workplace Ombudsman is unable to warn potential migrants of the allegations against the labour hire firm.
28 Jul 09 | IF IT all works, full blown health reform will add two years to our lives and save $4 billion a year.
28 Jul 09 | BEFORE the last election, Kevin Rudd said if the states had not come to the party on health by the middle of this year, he would seek a mandate at the next election for a Commonwealth takeover.
28 Jul 09 | THE Federal Government will appoint a procurement tsar as part of its strategy to take the sting out of the union movement’s ‘‘buy Australia’’ push at this week’s Labor Party national conference.
28 Jul 09 | The corporate watchdog wants them fined and banned from sitting on boards but several of 10 disgraced former directors of James Hardie Industries say they have already been punished enough.
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28 Jul 09 | The recession is scaring Australian women away from seeking a better work/life balance, with men compounding the problem by shirking housework and child-rearing responsibilities despite often having ...
27 Jul 09 | HOSPITAL errors claim the lives of 4550 Australians a year, equivalent to the death toll from 13 jumbo jets crashing and killing all on board, says a report to the Government which urges sweeping reforms of the health system.