11/10/2008 | ABORIGINAL legal aid lawyers in Darwin have described the suicide of a 22-year-old man in Arnhem Land as an avoidable tragedy and blamed the Northern Territory intervention for his death.
11/10/2008 | We're told human history began with a fit of scornful anger by Him at the sight of Adam and Eve, and that it will end the same way. That makes perfect sense to Don Watson, who believes indignation makes the world go around.
11/10/2008 | CONSUMERS have been warned to beware of gypsies selling discount power tools.
11/10/2008 | THE political scapegoat stood aside over the bungled Bathurst and Orange hospital redevelopments has been cleared after an independent inquiry.
11/10/2008 | THE father of Caroline Byrne was overheard instructing Gordon Wood to say his daughter had been killed in a car accident, a court has heard.
11/10/2008 | SUSAN WORRALL had only a few weeks before she could put down her pens and be finished with high school.
11/10/2008 | The earth is disappearing from under the feet of millions of impoverished Bangladeshis.
11/10/2008 | In one of the first big agricultural moves driven by climate change and a lack of irrigation water in the Murray-Darling Basin, the rice industry is looking north.
11/10/2008 | KEVIN RUDD has been forced to reassure consumers that their bank savings are sound as the Opposition demanded the Government underwrite every account containing up to $100,000 in case a bank collapses.
11/10/2008 | THE future of television has arrived and it goes by the name of Guthy-Renker. Or sometimes Danoz Direct. Or any of the other companies which pay for hours of free-to-air TV time to flog their wares.
11/10/2008 | PUBLICANS in Sydney's south-west are refusing to stock a vodka-based drink because they say it is too strong for young and inexperienced drinkers.
11/10/2008 | Sara Hudson visited a Narromine indigenous employment program and found that leadership can make all the difference.
11/10/2008 | A FORMER nominee for Young Australian of the Year is asking to be granted a pseudonym when she appears in court to sue the NSW Government for her arrest in a drug bust that ended her hope of winning the national honour.
11/10/2008 | AUSTRALIA'S oldest family business owes its foundations and longevity to an unlikely friendship between a teenaged white settler and one of history's most feared Aboriginal warriors.
11/10/2008 | IF AUSTRALIANS continue to outstrip the weight gains of previous generations, today's young adults could knock as much as two years off their life.
11/10/2008 | Supplies of rice are drying up as farmers face a third wipe-out year in a row.
11/10/2008 | KEVIN RUDD and his chief of staff, David Epstein, have parted company, resulting in the promotion of a 29-year-old to the Prime Minister's most senior adviser.
11/10/2008 | Revised child support rules have produced some odd results.
11/10/2008 | Australia's new chief scientist has concentrated on issues out of this world, but that's about to change.
11/10/2008 | ANTI-ALCOHOL campaigners have branded a new policy banning alcohol manufacturers from advertising near schools as a PR stunt designed more to deflect criticism from the marketing industry rather than an effective way of combating teen drinking.