National News
12 Nov 09 | AMONG the many laying flowers yesterday at the Clovelly Road house where Chloe Waterlow and her father Nick were murdered on Monday was a Randwick father who did not know the victims but who felt moved to remember them.
12 Nov 09 | Nominated yesterday for four Golden Guitars for the 2010 Tamworth Country Music Awards, the Caboolture muso turned international superstar has had bigger fish to fry in his adopted home of Nashville, which is celebrating country music week.
12 Nov 09 | THE Rees Government has bowed to pressure from rural and regional communities and abandoned its bid to rip up rail lines across the state.
12 Nov 09 | AUSTRALIA is in the grip of its biggest baby boom - a record 293,600 babies were born last year, 11,400 more than the year before. Roughly one third - 94,700 - were born in NSW, where births are rising faster than in any state other than Western Australia, increasing 5.8 per cent between 2007 and 2008, compared to the national increase of 4 per cent. Births in Western Australia jumped an extraordinary 9.2 per cent.
12 Nov 09 | THE proposed $1.8 billion Traveston Dam in Queensland has been quashed to protect endangered species, including Mary River turtle and cod, after a landmark decision by the Environment Minister, Peter Garrett.
12 Nov 09 | AMONG the many laying flowers yesterday at the Clovelly Road house where Chloe Waterlow and her father Nick were murdered on Monday was a Randwick father who did not know the victims but who felt moved to remember them.
12 Nov 09 | WOMEN detained by police were more likely than men to be suffering mental illness, using hard drugs and to have experienced sexual abuse as children, a study has found, prompting calls for offenders to be given psychological help to reduce crime.
12 Nov 09 | The Herald today challenges the absurdity of NSW's ban on letting parents know about the schools their children attend.
12 Nov 09 | THE Herald is breaching state law today, risking a $55,000 fine by comparing the test results of three schools.
12 Nov 09 | THE Rudd Government is considering ways to allow more Sri Lankans to emigrate legally from war-torn regions of the country to reduce the incentive for them to travel to Australia with people smugglers.
12 Nov 09 | THE Waterlow murders should not provoke community fear about people with schizophrenia and other mental illnesses, experts said yesterday.
12 Nov 09 | WOMEN detained by police were more likely than men to be suffering mental illness, using hard drugs and to have experienced sexual abuse as children, a study has found, prompting calls for offenders to be given psychological help to reduce crime.
12 Nov 09 | THE Waterlow murders should not provoke community fear about people with schizophrenia and other mental illnesses, experts said yesterday.
12 Nov 09 | The Herald today challenges the absurdity of NSW's ban on letting parents know about the schools their children attend.
12 Nov 09 | THE Herald is breaching state law today, risking a $55,000 fine by comparing the test results of three schools.
12 Nov 09 | THE Rudd Government is considering ways to allow more Sri Lankans to emigrate legally from war-torn regions of the country to reduce the incentive for them to travel to Australia with people smugglers.
11 Nov 09 | WHILE working on a landmark art exhibition about schizophrenia in 2006, the leading Australian curator Nick Waterlow confided in his friend Martin Sharp, the eminent artist. Waterlow revealed that his son had a mental illness.
11 Nov 09 | A third water-bombing aircraft will be called in today to help fight the bushfire burning out of control near the town of Portsea on the Mornington Peninsula.
11 Nov 09 | SCIENTISTS have engineered artificial penises in rabbits using cells from the animals to grow tailor-made organs, with some rabbits hopping to it and fathering baby rabbits within months of their transplant.
11 Nov 09 | THE State Government is to give subsidies to households that install wind turbines, its first move to support more than just solar panels for renewable energy in homes.