8/09/2008 | The WA Electoral Commission says it will give priority to counting votes in close seats, but the result of the state election is unlikely to be clearer until later this week.
| WA Nats hold key to poll outcome
8/09/2008 | Major political parties put on notice after all were given a thumping during coast-to-coast elections held over over the weekend.
| WA Nats hold key to poll outcome
8/09/2008 | Brendan Nelson's leadership will come in for increased scrutiny after mixed messages for the federal Coalition from the weekend's elections.
8/09/2008 | UNTIL only a year ago Australia was the Contented Country. Governments, state and federal, just kept getting re-elected, no matter how bad they were.
8/09/2008 | HIS home state may be an economic basket case and his wife, Carmel Tebbutt, the Deputy Premier, but the federal Infrastructure Minister, Anthony Albanese, has no intention of playing favourites.
M...
8/09/2008 | THE organist of St Andrew's Cathedral has been asked to tone down his loud musical flourishes at the end of Sunday services because members of the congregation have complained they cannot hear themselves think.
8/09/2008 | THE federal Nationals will consider splitting from the Liberal Party after losing Mark Vaile's former seat of Lyne to an independent with a swing of 30 per cent.
Rob Oakeshott, the sitting ind...
8/09/2008 | AN open letter signed by more than 100 childhood health, education and dietary experts will be sent to the national food regulator today, accusing the Government of neglecting its responsibility to protect children's health.
8/09/2008 | THE Premier, Nathan Rees, has declared "everything is on the table" as his new cabinet seeks to avert a financial crisis confronting the state.
The former treasurer, Michael Costa, said la...
8/09/2008 | THE number of women who die as a consequence of pregnancy or childbirth may be nearly twice as high as shown in official figures, which capture only one-third of suicides in the year after giving birth, according to NSW analysis that reveals the true toll of post-natal depression.
8/09/2008 | THE political donations tap remains turned to full bore in NSW, with the state Labor Party raising $9.5 million in the 14 months to June, more than double the amount first reported by the media when E...
8/09/2008 | THREE weeks ago, 150 people from across NSW met in Fairy Meadow, Wollongong, looking for a way to clean up the politics of local government.
From Sydney, the Blue Mountains, the North and the Sout...
8/09/2008 | NOISE pollution is posing an increasing threat in oceans by deafening marine animals, forcing global shipping regulators to find ways to solve the problem.
8/09/2008 | LEFT-WING outsider or Labor Party machine man? Militant unionist or property developer? Effective politician or architect of the biggest ALP blunder in the history of the inner west?
8/09/2008 | TWO years ago the Catholic Church dismissed sexual harassment complaints against a priest, one of several men facing child-sex charges over alleged events at a Bathurst school in the 1970s.
8/09/2008 | MORE than eight in 10 voters in NSW believe political parties, local government councillors and candidates should not accept donations from property developers, according to an opinion poll commission...
8/09/2008 | THE Liberal Party's white-knuckle victory over the Greens in Alexander Downer's old seat of Mayo on Saturday showed Brendan Nelson's leadership was in deep trouble, the Federal Government ...
8/09/2008 | THE former roads minister, Eric Roozendaal, will be the next NSW treasurer, and John Della Bosca will return to the front bench as health minister when the Premier, Nathan Rees, reveals his cabinet th...
8/09/2008 | NATHAN REES declared the "soap opera is over" yesterday, but then Frank Sartor played a starring role in the next sordid episode.
8/09/2008 | SOME of the earliest attempts by colonists to write down the Sydney region's Aboriginal languages are being made available to the public online for the first time.