National News
11 Mar 10 | The number of households facing mortgage stress has risen to a 16-month high with increases in interest costs outweighing improvements on the jobs front.
11 Mar 10 | INDONESIANS and Australians need to drop their negative stereotypes of each other if the relationship between the two nations is to advance and become resilient, the Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, says.
| Yudhoyono calls for change
11 Mar 10 | How can we save some of our most charismatic animals from extinction due to climate change? American biologist Camille Parmesan has a radical suggestion - move them. She talks to Suzanne Goldenberg.
11 Mar 10 | Don and Betty Draper, would no doubt approve; characters from the hit series Mad Men are to be immortalised in plastic. Mattel has announced it will create a limited-edition release of Barbie and Ken dolls to celebrate the Emmy Award-winning show about a fictional Madison Avenue advertising firm, Sterling Cooper, in the 1960s.
11 Mar 10 | A FORMER student is suing the exclusive The King's School after he was allegedly subjected to sexual assaults and daily beatings by fellow students.
11 Mar 10 | IN THE north-eastern corner of the Gladesville Hospital grounds, a former mental asylum once notorious for its crowded conditions and neglected inmates, is a nondescript plot where the corpses of more than 1000 former psychiatric patients lie.
11 Mar 10 | THE NSW government has been accused of putting people at risk from shoddy insulation work by advising occupants to conduct a do-it-yourself fire and electrocution risk assessment.
11 Mar 10 | STAGGERED school starting times have helped parents like Joy Poulos co-ordinate drop-off and pick-up times for children attending different schools.
11 Mar 10 | THE Opposition Leader, Barry O'Farrell, has pledged to put economic growth at the centre of a Coalition government plan to get NSW moving again.
11 Mar 10 | THE government and opposition have edged closer to a deal on changes to the youth allowance with the Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, agreeing to economic modelling on opposition amendments.
11 Mar 10 | PUBLIC hospitals which beat national standards on reducing patient waiting times will get bonus payments from the federal government, the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has revealed.
11 Mar 10 | THE Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, now seems unlikely to meet another big election pledge - to introduce a national dental scheme.
11 Mar 10 | THE Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has told the Senate to leave his proposed paid maternity leave scheme alone as the government mounts a concerted attack on increasing obstructionism in the nation's upper house
11 Mar 10 | BELINDA VASTA, 40, was still getting over the shock of her marriage breakdown when the pressure from Centrelink to find a job became intense. She had been a stay-at-home mother who had not worked in nine years. To support her two boys she depended on the single parenting payment.
11 Mar 10 | TAXPAYERS will pay up to $100 million to remove foil insulation or install electrical safety switches in 50,000 homes in a bid to fix the government's suspended insulation scheme.
11 Mar 10 | THE welfare-to-work reform implemented under the Howard government failed to achieve its objectives, leaving three of the four target groups - disability pensioners, the very long-term unemployed and mature-age unemployed - little or no better off, an official report shows.
11 Mar 10 | DAYS before the schoolyard fight that ended in Jai Morcom's death, the boys involved had brought spanners, chains and padlocks to the playground to win control of a disputed lunch table.
11 Mar 10 | FOR most of the year Ethabuka Reserve, which abuts the Simpson desert in the far corner of western Queensland, is a dry, hostile place.
11 Mar 10 | A LOVE of country music almost proved fatal for a wheelchair-bound Canadian man.
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