7:26 AM AEDT | Peter Garrett looked uncharacteristically pleased as he announced his decision to defer a decision about the Tasmanian pulp mill.
1:00 AM AEDT | Most Australian cities now have serious rail projects; for me, it is an exciting time. Sydney has two metro rail lines on Infrastructure Australia's interim priority list for Commonwealth funding:...
1:00 AM AEDT | THE federal Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, has allowed the forestry company Gunns to go ahead with construction of its controversial Tasmanian pulp mill, but is withholding final approval on whether the mill will be able to operate until water pollution studies are assessed in 2011.
1:00 AM AEDT | NSW was bracing for a heatwave today as the Australian Bureau of Meteorology published its annual report showing last year to be one of the hottest on record and predicting more scorching temperatures this summer.
1:00 AM AEDT | WOMEN with bulimia nervosa may binge eat because the brain circuits responsible for regulating their behaviour do not work properly, a new study suggests.
1:00 AM AEDT | A RADICAL reshaping of Sydney's Parramatta Road being considered by the State Government could be modelled on plans for Westfield-style shopping malls and "shop-top" apartment towers alo...
1:00 AM AEDT | GIVEN Sydney's development is girt by sea, mountains and national parks, the proposed underground West Metro linking Paramatta to the city and the proposed CBD Metro is a project whose time has su...
1:00 AM AEDT | THE Roads and Traffic Authority has all but admitted the failure of e-tags - at least for tolling motorcyclists and scooter riders.
1:00 AM AEDT | THE hotel industry is hopeful that the Government is going to overturn a controversial new rule designed to slow down drinkers, under which 48 pubs and clubs dubbed the most troublesome in the state have to shut their bars for 10 minutes each hour after midnight.
1:00 AM AEDT | SYDNEY will be reinvented as a high-density metropolis serviced by mass-transit subways under a transport blueprint being developed by senior state and federal government bureaucrats.
1:00 AM AEDT | THE revolutionary $8.1 billion West Metro will transport up to 30,000 people an hour from Parramatta to the CBD in less than 27 minutes, stopping at nine underground stations, according to secret feasibility work being undertaken by the state and federal governments.
1:00 AM AEDT | THERE are two Sydneys of the future. In one we build on empty paddocks 45 kilometres from the CBD, where workers wake before dawn to spend hours in traffic driving to work.
In the other we abandon ...
1:00 AM AEDT | FEDERAL GOVERNMENT experts are to investigate funding the introduction of diagnostic tests to target drugs at the right patients and reduce harmful side effects at a saving of billions of dollars.
1:00 AM AEDT | THE Federal Government's pre-Christmas financial stimulus helped stabilise the job market last month, but those seeking work will face tougher times later this year, a new survey of job advertisements reveals.
1:00 AM AEDT | SOME students are opting for the International Baccalaureate instead of the Higher School Certificate to avoid having their marks in humanities subjects scaled down.
1:00 AM AEDT | THE State Transit Authority has had to stop bus services to the Domain due to safety concerns for their drivers.
1:00 AM AEDT | Take the Aussie out of Australia and the least likely ocker becomes true blue, writes Aaron Timms.
1:00 AM AEDT | A THREE-YEAR-OLD boy was bitten by a 2½-metre brown snake while playing in a river north-west of Sydney yesterday, the state's second serious snake bite incident in three days.
1:00 AM AEDT | There's never been a better time to look to the skies, writes astronomer Fred Watson.
1:00 AM AEDT | ONE moment Richard West was borrowing Josef Cruickshank's mobile phone, the next he was trying to save his life.
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