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20 Nov 09 | FIREFIGHTERS have urged politicians to act on climate change as the country faces catastrophic fire warnings and unseasonal heatwaves.
20 Nov 09 | FIVE major fires are burning in NSW as the state swelters in a heatwave that has seen decades old records fall.
20 Nov 09 | A NEW technology using algae to recycle carbon emissions from coal-fired power stations will be given a boost today when Queensland's Premier, Anna Bligh, announces the construction of a demonstration project at one of the state's largest power plants, Tarong.
20 Nov 09 | IF THE major parties do not agree to an inquiry into Scientology, Nick Xenophon will just keep telling horror stories about the religion until they do.
20 Nov 09 | A NASTY split over which candidate Labor will field in the federal seat of Macquarie resulted in the Right faction rolling the Left yesterday during what was described as the most heated meeting of the ALP national executive in years.
20 Nov 09 | CHILD welfare advocates are pressing the Federal Government to create a national children's commissioner, as promised by Labor in opposition in 2003.
20 Nov 09 | THE Defence Force has completed 18 months of intensive research to find out why women are reluctant to join the military and why so many of these who enlist do not stay.
20 Nov 09 | SPARE a thought for the person on the line before you next hang up in frustration on a call-centre operator.
20 Nov 09 | BEING bullied at school has left almost seven out of 10 adults suffering from low self-esteem and a lack of assertiveness, new research says.
20 Nov 09 | A MURDERER with a long history of threatening and assaulting prison inmates and guards king-hit a remand prisoner so hard he was clinically dead and had to be revived.
20 Nov 09 | SHE'S passionate, genuine, gentle, insistent and unpredictable. She can front up to politicians, cajole bureaucrats, convince hospital administrators and sweet-talk leading surgeons.
20 Nov 09 | THE neurosurgeon Wirginia Maixner was inspired to do a little ''chicken dance'' when brain scans revealed that her team's surgery on the Bangladeshi twins Trishna and Krishna had been an against-the-odds success.
20 Nov 09 | A DAY after the State Government announced proposals for a big expansion of the M5 tollway and motorway in Sydney's south-west, the Minister for Transport has revealed his office is studying a radical plan to create a mega-company that would run all the city's tollways.
20 Nov 09 | NINA SIMONE sang Here Comes The Sun as plainclothed policemen kept watch at the funeral yesterday for Chloe Waterlow, 37, who, with her father, Nick, 68, was found dead in her Randwick home last week.
20 Nov 09 | A CATASTROPHIC fire danger warning has been been issued for the west and south-west of the state today due to very hot, dry and windy conditions - the first time this top ''code red'' alert has been forecast in NSW.
20 Nov 09 | MORE than half the Coalition's 37 senators have formally declared their opposition to Malcolm Turnbull's desire to cut a deal with Labor on the emissions trading scheme, setting up a showdown next week that many fear could tear the Opposition apart.
19 Nov 09 | Celebrity gardener Peter Cundall has been arrested outside Tasmania's Parliament House in Hobart.
The ABC presenter was with a protest group today calling for a Royal Commission in the approval of Gunns Ltd’s proposed Bell Bay pulp mill in the state's north.
19 Nov 09 | Melbourne has shattered the highest temperature for a November night since records began, outstripping the previous record set in 1901 by almost two degrees, says the weather bureau.
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19 Nov 09 | The husband of slain woman Chloe Waterlow has remembered her as generous, bright and loving - qualities he says will live on in their daughter.
19 Nov 09 | Captain Dominic James ran out of options as his plane - carrying a critically ill woman and four others - was running out of fuel near Norfolk Island.
In the dark and facing a 1.5-metre swell, he brought the Westwind jet down and ditched in the sea.