28/08/2008 | For years Father Brian Spillane presided over a flock of young, impressionable boys at St Stanislaus College in Bathurst.
28/08/2008 | POLICE have arrested a man suspected of assaulting six teenage girls and a woman at knife-point in western Sydney since April.
28/08/2008 | THE 1930 Melbourne Cup trophy won by Phar Lap, has possibly been located after a three-year investigation.
28/08/2008 | USAIN BOLT stunned the globe with three gold medals and just as many world records. He was the fastest thing on two legs over 100 metres and 200m and also carried his team around the last bend to gold...
28/08/2008 | Drug companies had a "major influence" on what doctors prescribed - almost two-thirds of them meet pharmaceutical representatives an average of seven times a month, a Choice survey has found.
28/08/2008 | KEVIN RUDD and Woodside Petroleum have locked horns after the oil and gas giant said it would pass on to consumers the $2.5 billion tax impost on condensate, the light-crude oil it extracts from North-West Shelf gas.
28/08/2008 | THE head of the Independent Commission Against Corruption asked yesterday how NSW Fire Brigades was able to set budgets for capital works projects which, when brought in under budget, still brought in healthy returns for the contractors and for two of the brigades' project managers who were running a scam.
28/08/2008 | ONE name sums up the action from Beijing's Water Cube. Sure, there was some spectacular racing and the setting of times only recently thought possible, due in part to high-tech swim suits.
28/08/2008 | IT'S THE number that dare not speak its name: 58,785.
28/08/2008 | CONCERNS about the cost of greenhouse gases to NSW power generators were underscored yesterday when the Treasurer, Michael Costa, announced changes to the electricity privatisation plans to shield taxpayers from future liability for the pollution.
28/08/2008 | BARRY O'Farrell will deliver a humiliating blow to Morris Iemma's leadership today when he blocks the Government's plans to privatise the state's electricity industry and forces the Premier to back down from the proposal.
28/08/2008 | HUNDREDS of Australia's leading natural scientists are calling on the Premier to save the state's travelling stock routes used by drovers for generations, saying they provide a vital refuge fo...
28/08/2008 | IT MAY not quite be the same journey into the unknown for Pim Verbeek as it will be for his players, but the Socceroos coach admits Uzbekistan will still be a dangerous "dark horse" when the World Cup qualifying campaign resumes in a fortnight's time.
28/08/2008 | WHEN the State Government dedicated a small chunk of Sydney to Jack Mundey last year, it was considered a fitting tribute to the leader of the 1970s green bans, who saved so much of Sydney's historic areas from developers.
28/08/2008 | Kevin Rudd has threatened the states and education unions by declaring future federal education funding will be conditional on information about the performance of individual schools being made available to parents.
28/08/2008 | Chronically ill patients who are desperate to get expensive dental care under a popular Medicare scheme before it is shut down may get a reprieve.
28/08/2008 | A TEENAGER who was shot in the head early yesterday morning does not appear to have been the target of the shooting, police say.
28/08/2008 | Aussie performances were up there in the memorable moments of these Games, writes John Huxley.
28/08/2008 | Brad Thompson of Nelson Bay was woken in the early hours of yesterday by screams coming from the house next door.
28/08/2008 | WOMEN'S sense of wellbeing has fallen to its lowest level in seven years as inflation erodes the family budget and creates concerns about future economic security, a new study shows.
The findi...