30/08/2008 | THE State Government will spend $1.6 billion renovating and upgrading 127,000 government-owned houses across the state.
30/08/2008 | RAISING the tax on alcopops was unlikely to curb binge drinking among young people, specialists have argued in a paper published yesterday in a prestigious international medical journal.
30/08/2008 | Mark Galante; the husband and killer of Sydney woman Jody Galante; maintained his public charade of distraught partner for two months. His lies were finally exposed by a police bugging operation, as Herald reporter Edmund Tadros tells in a new book.
30/08/2008 | A DEFENCE inquiry has found no evidence that Australian troops beat and humiliated four Afghan detainees.
30/08/2008 | AN EXPLODING oxygen tank was responsible for blowing a gaping hole in the side of a Qantas jet last month, a preliminary report into the incident has found.
30/08/2008 | THERE was some deja vu this week when the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, announced that school funding is to be tied to the disclosure of more performance information.
30/08/2008 | MORE than a year after a terrorism charge against him was dropped and more than $8 million later, the Australian Federal Police have finally confirmed they have cleared the Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef as a suspect in last year's terrorism attack on Glasgow airport.
30/08/2008 | WE'RE in the middle of a baby boom - but, unfortunately for the nation's fertility rate, the babies aren't human.
30/08/2008 | BRENDAN NELSON says he'd be "very happy" if Peter Costello stayed in politics, but Mr Costello has given his total support to the Liberal Party leader and vowed to back him into the next election.
30/08/2008 | MORRIS IEMMA'S shock announcement that the Government would carve off the retail arm of the state's electricity system was kept secret until the last possible minute.
30/08/2008 | THE rapid plunge in consumer confidence is sapping the life out of the housing and financial markets, but the impact is also working its way through smaller pockets of the economy - with waiters, charities and gamblers all feeling the pinch.
30/08/2008 | Are humans made of the right stuff to save their planet? Elizabeth Farrelly investigates.
30/08/2008 | AN OFFICIAL report has confirmed the discovery of remarkably rich German records about the disastrous attack at Fromelles in 1916 that resulted in 5533 Australian casualties in one night.
30/08/2008 | THE swing to the Liberal Party created by Colin Barnett's return to the leadership in Western Australia has stalled and the Carpenter Labor Government would be returned with close to a 17-seat majority if the state election were held today, the latest Westpoll has confirmed.
30/08/2008 | FAIRFAX MEDIA staff from The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun-Herald, The Age, Sunday Age, The Australian Financial Review, The Newcastle Herald and The Illawarra Mercury remained on strike last night over the company's plan to cut 550 positions from its Australian and New Zealand operations and over a continuing pay dispute.
30/08/2008 | A SYDNEY couple is still on the run nine days after a Supreme court order was issued forcing them to vaccinate their baby against hepatitis B.
30/08/2008 | HARVEY NORMAN HOLDINGS, Australia's largest furniture and electronics retailer, has lifted its dividend payment to soften the blow of a below-expectations annual profit due to high interest rates and fuel prices.
30/08/2008 | A group of volunteers put their lives on the line to rescue others, writes Keeli Cambourne.
29/08/2008 | A defiant Morris Iemma will sell parts of NSW's electricity assets under a proposal that does not require Parliament's approval.
29/08/2008 | ANY chance of full-on power privatisation died yesterday, with the Opposition refusing to give the Government the support it needed to get the legislation through Parliament.