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Criminal checks are big business - 01/09/2009 02:00 PM

THE number of criminal-history checks on Australians has increased six-fold in seven years to create a $50m business for governments.

Violence begins where hope ends - 01/09/2009 02:00 PM

MOTHER of six Theresa Brown looks despairingly along Macbeth Way, in the troubled Rosemeadow housing estate on Sydney's southwestern fringe.

Aussie mafia of spin doctors in Israel - 01/09/2009 02:00 PM

FOR a boy from Bondi who has spent most of his life in Sydney's eastern suburbs, Benjamin Rutland slips very easily into the language of a country at war.

China link to Rudd's Bush rebuff - 01/09/2009 02:00 PM

THE Rudd Government denied a request from the Bush administration to resettle 17 Chinese locked up in Gitmo after warnings from Beijing

University misled about ADHD drug - 01/09/2009 02:00 PM

CURTIN University has been misled over the trial of a new ADHD drug.

Howard tells Joyce to move house - 01/09/2009 02:00 PM

NATIONALS Senate Leader Barnaby Joyce is considering a switch to the House of Representatives after being urged to do so by John Howard.

Pay row threatens havoc for flights - 01/09/2009 02:00 PM

THOUSANDS of people returning to work at the end of the school holidays face potential air travel chaos if a meeting next week fails to solve an eight-month impasse between air traffic controllers and Airservices Australia.

Shopper confidence up despite jobs fear - 01/09/2009 02:00 PM

CONSUMER confidence continues to grow, as a new survey shows shoppers are the most optimistic they've been in eight months, but doubts continue about the impact of an expected new year rise in unemployment.

Incest twist in triple murder case - 01/09/2009 02:00 PM

IT is nearly six years since Neelma Singh, 24, her brother Kunal, 18, andsister Sidhi, 12, were allegedly murdered in their home in Bridgeman Downs.

Towns a lifeline for Aborigines - 01/09/2009 02:00 PM

ONE is an Aboriginal community in western Arnhem Land; the other a "white" town in country NSW. They are about the same size, but when it comes to jobs and opportunity, they are worlds apart.

Poised for power - 01/09/2009 03:00 PM

THE Obama administration is about to take office at a time arguably unprecedented in crisis for an incoming president since Roosevelt.

No role for Prince Charming - 01/09/2009 02:00 PM

WHO impregnated the French Justice Minister?