24/07/2008 | Perceptions about working in fields such as newborn care are not always accurate, writes Maria Nguyen.
24/07/2008 | FOR centuries, says Associate Professor Chris Semsarian of the Centenary Institute, the heart had been thought of as an "end organ".
"You were born with a number of heart cells an...
24/07/2008 | WATER should be priced on how much is available rather than on how much people use, the Federal Government's water advisory group has recommended.
24/07/2008 | TIM JOHNSTON, the head of the fuel pill company Firepower, is believed to have spent a fortune on expensive furnishings and antiques, and he regularly flew a prominent Sydney antique dealer to Russia to advise on purchases.
24/07/2008 | NICOLE SWIFT, of Yarramundi, on the Hawkesbury, has no difficulty with the idea that one day Australia's horses - so brusquely brushed aside by the motor car a century ago - may come back into the...
24/07/2008 | INDIGENOUS leaders in Arnhem Land have asked Kevin Rudd to abandon key aspects of the federal intervention in remote Aboriginal areas, including the quarantining of welfare payments.
24/07/2008 | NSW residents no longer enjoy the highest income in the country per person, and pay packets in the state remain the most unequal.
24/07/2008 | RENTS for houses across Sydney surged 8 per cent in the three months to June, driven by landlords facing higher mortgage rates.
24/07/2008 | LIVING in good times can lead to more than just gluttony. It can ruin your sex life - if you are a bug, scientists have found.
24/07/2008 | Ignore the myths about heart disease and stay in circulation, writes Steve Dow.
24/07/2008 | FEWER Australians are getting married and those who do are leaving it until later in life.
24/07/2008 | MICHAEL COSTA, widely regarded as the most eccentric man in the NSW Parliament, has revealed he has had to act as a counsellor to some of his parliamentary colleagues who have come to him about their mental health problems.
24/07/2008 | PAKISTAN coach Geoff Lawson fears the country will become a permanent no-go zone for western cricket nations if the Champions Trophy is relocated, and warned Australia, England and New Zealand they could be marginalised if they refuse to play there.
24/07/2008 | SYDNEY motorists were treated yesterday to the cheapest petrol in six weeks but are still to see the full effect of the recent drop in international oil prices.
The average price for unleaded petr...
24/07/2008 | PATIENTS awaiting urgent care at choked hospitals would be redirected to those with spare capacity elsewhere in Sydney under a "brokering service" proposed to the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission.
24/07/2008 | A POLICE gun, baton and ammunition was stolen from an unmarked police car in June, probably while it was parked at a shopping centre near police headquarters.
24/07/2008 | HALL of Fame trainer John Hawkes has welcomed Racing NSW's decision to introduce training partnerships from August 1 and is looking forward to sons Wayne and Michael joining him as the co-heads of Hawkes Racing.
24/07/2008 | THE web may be thought of as a young person's game, but older people are leading the charge in internet take-up, embracing a technology that has only become pervasive in the years since many of them retired.
24/07/2008 | NADR ARNAOUT was a design student with dreams of being an animator until his encounter with a nude male. A classical nude male statue, that is.
24/07/2008 | IN HIS one of his final races before the Beijing Games Craig Mottram has signalled he is in form. Mottram defeated a strong field to win over 3000 metres at the IAAF World Tour event in Stockholm.