National News
13 Mar 10 | ''PATRICK WHITE'S Wastepaper Basket is in Transit'' might sound like the title of a Beatnik poem,
13 Mar 10 | Yesterday we ran a letter listing the number of people who had been reading particular stories on the Herald's website on Thursday afternoon. The Michael Clarke/Lara Bingle imbroglio was miles out in front, suggesting online readers were less than gripped by the more weighty issues on offer.
13 Mar 10 | It was on this weekend two years ago that the winemaker Duane Roy secured his biggest break. Showcasing wines at NSW Wine Week's Cellar Door event in Hyde Park, he served a glass to the food and beverage director of P&O Cruises, who liked the wine and bought a case.
13 Mar 10 | Eating kangaroo meat is, by all accounts, much better for the environment than dining on pork, lamb or beef. The natives emit negligible methane, tread lightly and without contributing to erosion, and have no need for vast quantities of feed intensively farmed elsewhere.
13 Mar 10 | Railcorp has postponed the installation of a new safety system on trains which would allow passengers to open carriage doors in the event of an accident or derailment.
13 Mar 10 | Australia faces further cost blowouts in the Joint Strike Fighter program and could receive fighter aircraft with stripped-back capabilities, a leading analyst said .
13 Mar 10 | Property values along light rail corridors could soar, a new report suggests, but experts say governments would need to temper the price rises with more affordable housing.
13 Mar 10 | It may represent the grand, horse-drawn chariot of Lord Jagganatha, a form of the Indian deity Krishna, but rules are rules on Sydney roads.
13 Mar 10 | Developer groups have criticised the NSW opposition's rejection of government plans for a Sydney development authority with powers to resume private land for sale to developers.
13 Mar 10 | Don't necessarily expect national consequences if Labor loses in Tasmania and South Australia next Saturday, writes David Humphries.
13 Mar 10 | Australia has refused to join the United States and the European Union in seeking a trade ban on imperilled northern bluefin tuna, sparking an outcry from conservation groups.
13 Mar 10 | The government's proposed internet filter has landed Australia on a global watch list for internet censorship, prompting one industry figure to note that Australia's policy could be used by authoritarian regimes to justify internet restrictions.
13 Mar 10 | Sydney drivers are under-skilled and over-aggressive, according to the son of the world champion racing driver Sir Jack Brabham and a driver-training expert, Geoff Brabham.
13 Mar 10 | The federal government's distribution of $379 million in health and medical research funding is in turmoil following the failure this week of a computer system meant to log scientists' applications online.
13 Mar 10 | The federal government's Department of Climate Change may be at the cutting edge of environmental policy development but it is well behind when it comes to its own effect on the environment.
13 Mar 10 | Tasmanians are again grappling with the prospect of minority government, the third since 1980 involving the Greens party.
13 Mar 10 | The fate of the Rudd government's $43 billion national broadband strategy rests with the Family First senator Steve Fielding, who will spend the weekend deciding whether to support legislation aimed at forcing Telstra to sell its assets to the new high-speed network.
13 Mar 10 | Tasmania faces a return to a hung Parliament next weekend and the Gen Xers leading the political parties are playing it as safe as they can, writes Andrew Darby.
13 Mar 10 | If the property prices didn't give it away, the impending arrival of the first small bar would have: gentrification is engulfing Marrickville.
13 Mar 10 | Seriously ill psychiatric patients committed to institutions against their will have to wait up to four weeks for a hearing into their detention, from later this year.
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