WA school buses have become so lawless that security cars are tailing them to keep order. Transperth has stepped up school bus security in recent weeks as part of State Government measures to increase safety on public transport.
CSIRO scientists have urged the Treasury Secretary, Ken Henry, to use the insights of ''nudge theory'' - the idea that governments should (gently) push citizens into making better personal decisions - when redesigning the nation's tax and welfare system.
IN A profession notoriously resilient to hard times, online dating sites threaten to do what the global financial crisis could not - send the sex services industry broke.
NEW national gun laws will outlaw imitation firearms unless shooters hold a special licence to own them. The move follows a series of attacks using replica guns.
A man has been charged with money laundering after police allegedly found $1.5 million inside the boot of his Mercedes-Benz in Sydney's west yesterday.
ABC gardening personality Peter Cundall has been arrested outside Tasmania's parliament during a protest against Gunns' Tamar Valley pulp mill.
HEALTH authorities should be doing more to prevent heat-related illnesses and deaths as vulnerable people, particularly the elderly, struggle to adapt to the changing conditions, emergency doctors say.
Police have charged a woman with attempted murder after she allegedly set a man alight in Victoria's north-east.
The father of drowned honeymooner Tina Watson believes his daughter may have been the victim of a copy-cat murder.
Two men impersonating police officers have carried out a brazen burglary in Melbourne's western suburbs.
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