16/10/2008 | WE HAVE walked, cycled and run over it for special events. Now the Sydney Harbour Bridge will be turned into a giant cafe seating 20,000 for breakfast.
16/10/2008 | WHEN The Sydney Morning Herald-Dymocks Literary Event Program started on December 2, 1988, 120 people turned up at the Hilton hotel to have lunch and hear the author Morris West talk. Yesterday, at the event's 20th anniversary lunch, 1000 people listened to the guest speaker Li Cunxin, former ballet dancer and author of the autobiographical Mao's Last Dancer, at Star City's Grand Harbour Ballroom.
16/10/2008 | MORE than two-thirds of Australian women of child-bearing age are deficient in iodine, increasing their risk of having children with learning and other disabilities, a Government dietary study has found.
16/10/2008 | Interaction is the key to many of this year's sculptures by the sea.
16/10/2008 | The ABC is dumping a raft of radio programs as job cuts begin to bite.
16/10/2008 | GORDON GEKKO, the anti-hero of the Hollywood film Wall Street , played by Michael Douglas, will return to confront the credit crisis, according to Hollywood reports.
As bankers dominate headlines...
16/10/2008 | THE kangaroo population could be devastated by climate change, putting a cloud over suggestions roo should replace beef and lamb as the nation's favourite meat, new research shows.
16/10/2008 | LEE-ANN BENNETT was 10 hours into a day-long labour when she lost the money - Kevin Rudd's Christmas payment, the $1000 available to dependent children born before October 15. Tuesday slid into Wednesday and the money slipped away.
16/10/2008 | THE Federal Government has clawed a special $150 million dividend from Australia Post, taking to almost $1 billion the amount of taxes and earnings paid to Canberra by the post office this year.
16/10/2008 | NURSES have been forced to borrow bandages and medical equipment from a vet to use on patients at Dubbo Base Hospital.
16/10/2008 | KEVIN RUDD yesterday defended the Federal Government's increases to the first home owners grant against criticisms that they would raise house prices.
16/10/2008 | IN THE market for a home loan, but have no savings, a hefty debt and a below-average income?
16/10/2008 | CHRISTIAN schools in NSW are teaching creationism or "intelligent design" with little or no monitoring of whether it is being improperly included in science classes in high schools.
16/10/2008 | WELFARE groups are asking the Federal Government to clarify whether people who mistakenly receive the bonus payments announced on Tuesday will have to repay them.
16/10/2008 | THE hunt for one of the state's most wanted men is over, with the discovery of the double-murderer Stanley Maguire's corpse in bushland north of Sydney.
16/10/2008 | IT'S A mountain range as large as the Alps. But its giant peaks have never been seen, because they are buried under up to four kilometres of snow and ice in the harsh interior of Antarctica.
16/10/2008 | THE new Minister for Transport, David Campbell, yesterday bungled his first appearance before a parliamentary hearing by pledging a new Tcard before the Government had even been scheduled to sign a contract for its delivery.
16/10/2008 | FROM Blue's Clues to Star Wars , Jesse and Johnnie Talquenca have always shared the same literary tastes.
That is partly because they spend so much time around each other. But when their mo...
16/10/2008 | THE Opposition Leader, Malcolm Turnbull, has used an address to the nation to attack Kevin Rudd's handling of the global economic crisis, while at the same time pledging bipartisan support in tackling it.
16/10/2008 | ONE of Australia's largest forest plantation companies has been ordered to pay $2 million after a Federal Government investigation of its operations on the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory found it had failed to protect vital rainforests and wetlands.
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