Perth : A mining company that secured a lucrative coal exploration licence over the Obeid family’s farm is pushing ahead with a legal challenge to a report which led to the licence being cancelled, in an apparent bid to win compensation from the state government.Cascade Coal has asked the NSW Court of Appeal to strike […]
A 20-year-old woman has developed carbon monoxide poisoning after smoking a hookah waterpipe, leading doctors to warn that smoking the traditional pipes could be dangerous.They say the “light-headed” relaxed feeling associated with smoking the hookah, which is also known as a shisha or narghile, may actually be the result of severe oxygen deprivation in the […]
Perth : It took five minutes for police to find a pair of handcuffs to restrain a man who turned violent in the Downing Centre court complex recently, knocking out a prosecutor and having to be restrained by seven police officers.Such incidents are among the many reasons officers should be allowed to carry their weapons […]
Sydney : Pressure is mounting on the federal government to consider funding all or part of a rail line to the Badgerys Creek airport site.The country’s largest airline and the Baird government both made representations on Friday for public transport to run to the airport when it opens in the middle of the next decade.”The […]
Sydney : The true cost to taxpayers of the new privatised Northern Beaches Hospital has been revealed as $2.14 billion, more than twice the $1 billion figure publicised by health minister Jillian Skinner before the March election.The NSW government is also accused of breaking transparency laws by suppressing the figure until after the poll and […]