National News
07 Sep 10 | The newly powerful Greens leader, Bob Brown, has demanded to know why key ABC television news programs failed to cover his party during the federal election campaign.
07 Sep 10 | When the independents decide who to support the numbers could break in one of four ways.
07 Sep 10 | There might not be an official government in office yet, but the business of government goes on.
07 Sep 10 | Michael Blackburn twists the top off a midday longneck and with a flick of his finger sends it spinning off an improbable distance into the Hastings River.
07 Sep 10 | Whoever gets the nod from the three independent MPs to form a minority government will be vulnerable to any unexpected departures, spectacular dummy spits, acts of God or other conniptions inside their own ranks during the next Parliament.
07 Sep 10 | Independent MPs would have greater flexibility to miss a vote in the House of Representatives and not be penalised under changes agreed to yesterday for proposed parliamentary reforms.
07 Sep 10 | Regional Victoria is braced for more flooding today after communities were placed on high alert and emergency service workers geared up to provide aid in Shepparton and Horsham.
07 Sep 10 | A company was paid $34 million for water licences that were only good after floods, write Deborah Snow and Debra Jopson.
07 Sep 10 | Leading farming groups warn that Australia's multibillion-dollar water market is ripe for fraud or embezzlement because governments have failed to regulate water brokers.
07 Sep 10 | A backlash is developing against state government plans to slash off-peak ferry services to the inner Sydney Harbour.
07 Sep 10 | The state government has been accused of short-changing schools by up to $162 million under the cover of the federal government's education stimulus package.
07 Sep 10 | Federal laws on people smuggling will force judges to send 216 Indonesian crewmen in immigration detention in Australia to jail for a total of at least 648 years.
07 Sep 10 | The future of the controversial pilot of ethics classes in NSW schools is in the hands of an independent evaluator who will deliver her verdict this month.
07 Sep 10 | A Sydney Water employee who had been sent to evict the businessman Paul Makucha from Sydney Water land ended up entering an arrangement instead in which the authority paid Mr Makucha more than $200,000, according to evidence to be presented to the Independent Commission Against Corruption.
07 Sep 10 | It might be the loneliest plant on the planet.
07 Sep 10 | You can't buy water by the bottle in Bundanoon, but you can export it by the tanker-load.
07 Sep 10 | Adam Bennett was a skydiving instructor with more than 20 years' experience and a hatred of flying.
07 Sep 10 | Gordon Tisdell is a broken man. For a decade he has been the public face of Anzac and Remembrance Days. His photograph has run in Life magazine; in the Australian, where he claimed to be a Vietnam veteran; in the Herald, as a survivor of Long Tan.
07 Sep 10 | A Western Sydney mayor says three-quarters of his municipality has suddenly become available for development for flats thanks to a minor change in planning laws he says will affect all Sydney councils.
07 Sep 10 | The deregistered surgeon Melvin Muralidharan has a history of lying - but it did not stop him obtaining jobs at four NSW public hospitals due to communication failures and severe staff shortages.
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