Vets decide there is no hope for whale calf
THE National Parks and Wildlife Service will kill the young whale
stranded in Pittwater after its condition deteriorated rapidly
yesterday afternoon.
Tests for teachers will grade the best
TEACHERS in NSW schools will no longer be equal in status from today when they are invited to apply for new professional standards that will elevate them above their colleagues, putting the state and federal governments under greater pressure to provide them with extra financial rewards.
Pollution price will kill jobs: warning
BIG business has warned of job losses, shrinking profits and the closure of some operations unless significant changes are made to the Federal Government's proposed emissions trading scheme.
Ford cuts jobs as sales slip
FORD will slash up to 350 jobs from its Australian factories because of sluggish sales of its new Falcon and a subdued outlook for the vehicle industry.
Hogan tax dodge claims
THE Australian Crime Commission's suspicion that Crocodile
Dundee star Paul Hogan misrepresented his tax residency status
between 2002 and 2005 to dodge tax is a focus of its pursuit of the
film icon, court documents released yesterday show.
Rate cuts: no relief unless you ask
MORTGAGE holders struggling with the rising cost of living will have to apply individually to their bank to have their repayments reduced, even if the lender passes on an interest rate cut.
Plans to oust the disabled angers parents
PEOPLE with severe disabilities will be treated as "trespassers" if they overstay their assigned time in government-funded respite centres, a draft Government policy says.
Asset sale down to the power of one
THE Opposition Leader, Barry O'Farrell, is under growing pressure
to show his hand on power privatisation after the Auditor-General
backed Morris Iemma's plans to sell electricity assets.
Costello 'not challenging' for leadership
PETER COSTELLO declared yesterday he would not be challenging for the Liberal Party leadership as Brendan Nelson managed to offend his Coalition colleagues in the National Party by opposing Labor's migrant guest worker scheme.
Backbench revolt looms for Labor over building watchdog
The Federal Government faces its first significant backbench revolt with moves to bring on a caucus debate over its policy of retaining the Howard government's construction industry watchdog until 2010.
Cut the jokes, or get flushed
UNIVERSITY health services, sporting teams and social clubs have
disappeared on many campuses as a result of voluntary student union
laws. Now it seems undergraduate humour might be flushed down the
toilet - as it were - as well.
Jail the 'greedy' scam victims, says Nigerian diplomat
THE Nigerian high commissioner says people who are ripped off by so-called Nigerian scams are just as guilty as the fraudsters and should be jailed.
Vet death prompts new tests for horses
HORSE serum samples collected during the equine influenza outbreak may be subjected to extensive testing to find out if any animals are carrying the deadly Hendra virus following the death of a vet in Brisbane.
92 vie for council in the long run
IT'S not quite as big as the infamous tablecloth ballot paper that
faced NSW voters in 1999 but the more than 60-centimetre-long list
of candidates in Campbelltown for next month's local government
election would make a nice table runner.
Elder wants boomerang bound for Botany Bay
THIS is one boomerang, reckons Merv Ryan, that ought to come back.
Ruling says Herald handled columnist complaints properly
THE Australian Press Council has dismissed a complaint by Dale Mills against a column published in the Herald on May 26. The council's ruling stated:
Never too old to face this gang
LIONEL JACOBS may have been born more than three decades before the
first computer, but that hasn't stopped the tech-savvy Sydneysider
from joining the social networking craze and becoming an online
love doctor.
Obesity risks higher than thought
AUSTRALIANS with obesity are at significantly higher risk than previously thought of suffering illness, including diabetes, heart attack, stroke and osteoarthritis, a new study has found.
Hillsong reopens building plans
TWO months after Hillsong Church scotched plans for a $78 million mega-church and office block at Rosebery, the Christian group is eyeing off a site just two bus stops down the road.
Ship to give up final secret
IN HMAS Sydney's last hours a sailor, badly battered, with German
shrapnel lodged in his forehead, managed to get onto a raft and
drift away from the burning wreck.
Bogus names, quotes and invoices used to milk fire brigades, ICAC told
A FORMER NSW Fire Brigades contracts manager said he knew of others within the fire brigades administration who were making irregular arrangements, such as awarding contracts to "friends" and requesting bogus quotes, the Independent Commission Against Corruption heard yesterday.
