National News
18 Mar 10 | The Canadian ski resort of Whistler — the largest in North America — is using its role as host for most of the Vancouver Paralympic Games events to turn itself into the most disability-friendly ski resort on the planet. It already boasts signs that direct people in wheelchairs to the nearest ramps, teletypewriter phones and the world-renowned Whistler Adaptive Sports Program that has taught so many to ski and board.
18 Mar 10 | Australians face the risk of falling living standards for the next decade as the country has fallen into a reform malaise, according to one of the country's leading economic authorities, Professor Ross Garnaut.
18 Mar 10 | Sachin Tendulkar has inspired Mumbai Indians to a crushing 98-run victory over Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League on Wednesday.
18 Mar 10 | When you are only 14, aren't you supposed to play computer games, text your friends, and get out of homework? Yolane Kukla may do all those things too but she is no longer an average 14-year-old.
18 Mar 10 | WELLINGTON: Steve Smith is unlikely to receive a Test debut after a sizzling training session from Marcus North at Westpac Stadium yesterday. Away from prying eyes while Michael Clarke was taking five minutes and 59 seconds to get the media monkey off his back, North followed Ricky Ponting, Simon Katich and Phillip Hughes into a net being run by Australia's batting coach, Justin Langer, and hit the cover off almost every delivery he faced.
18 Mar 10 | The punter involved in the explosive Racing Victoria inquiry into jockey Danny Nikolic's riding may be banned from setting foot on Australian racecourses.
18 Mar 10 | As he began to jot down notes while watching a replay of the Western Force getting belted by the Queensland Reds in Brisbane last Sunday night, Waratahs coach Chris Hickey realised there wasn't much point.
18 Mar 10 | Veteran midfielder Karol Kisel will play his last game for Sydney FC in the grand final on Saturday night but Sky Blues coach Vitezslav Lavicka has no doubt the former Slovakian international will make sure he goes out on a high.
18 Mar 10 | The media, the Herald included, has copped some criticism over aspects of its coverage of the murder of the curator Nick Waterlow.
18 Mar 10 | TWELVE Australians are not yet accounted for in the region of Fiji battered by Cyclone Tomas.
18 Mar 10 | SCIENTISTS have shown for the first time that man-made climate change is the direct cause of changes to the life cycle of a native Australian animal species.
18 Mar 10 | TAXI driver James Young could not have picked a worse person to refuse a fare.
18 Mar 10 | The state government's plan to use the money from the sale of its waste services arm, WSN, to reduce borrowings or fund services has been blocked.
18 Mar 10 | RISING alcohol abuse in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific islands, partly spurred by Australian beer, has prompted calls for alcohol companies to contribute more to counter the problem.
18 Mar 10 | A DEMOTION to a minority government is the best result Labor can hope for in this weekend's South Australian election, strategists from both major parties believe.
18 Mar 10 | THE federal government's broadband plans are looking shakier by the day as it struggles to muster Senate support for legislation that would pave the way for Telstra's involvement in the network.
18 Mar 10 | THE federal government's refusal to declare it would take over the struggling mental health system in its health-reform blueprint has drawn fire from two psychiatric leaders, Patrick McGorry and Ian Hickie.
18 Mar 10 | BUD ABBOTT and Lou Costello, two American comedians who started out on the burlesque circuit last century, became famous for a routine ''Who's on first?'' featuring a long elaborate joke about confusing surnames.
18 Mar 10 | PETER COSTELLO'S attack on Tony Abbott's parental leave policy has been universally condemned by his former colleagues who suggested the former treasurer had given up his chance to lead the party and should therefore butt out.
18 Mar 10 | A CUP of coffee on Campbell Parade, Bondi, has always come with a pleasant view, but until now it has also come with a cloud of cigarette smoke.
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