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'They need really good training'
Rachel Browne 1:34 AM Sweeping reforms are needed to volunteer-run sports clubs to help prevent child sexual abuse, a royal commission has heard.
What's really in your oregano?
Esther Han 1:31 AM Shoppers buying and sprinkling chopped oregano leaves to flavour their food might actually be using entirely different ingredients, says consumer advocacy group Choice.
The 'most infectious' disease visits Sydney
Harriet Alexander 1:28 AM Recent plane passengers, hostel residents, hospital and medical centre patients are among those at risk of developing measles following confirmed cases of the highly contagious disease in Sydney.
Riot police clash with student protesters at the University of Sydney
Kate Aubusson 12:55 AM Riot police have forcibly removed a group of protesting students from the University of Sydney library during an event attended by the federal education minister Simon Birmingham on Wednesday night.
Diabetes becoming a 'global issue for public health': WHO
Kate Kelland 11:23 PM The number of adults with diabetes has quadrupled worldwide in under four decades to 422 million, and the condition is fast becoming a major problem in poorer countries, a World Health Organization study showed on Wednesday.
Leighton: an entrenched culture of corruption?
Michael Bachelard, Nick McKenzie 9:43 PM What is going on in the company formerly known as Leighton Holdings?
Unravelling of Thiess' Indian coal adventure
Richard Baker, Nick McKenzie 9:26 PM At first blush, Syam Reddy seemed an odd choice to front a bid by a Leighton Holdings company for a $6 billion Indian coal mining contract.
UC master's degree for single mum of three with rare genetic disorder
Emma Macdonald 9:15 PM It is no small achievement for a mother of three children under the age ten to earn a Master's degree, but Tanya Stiller has done it as a single mum while battling a rare and degenerative disease which causes her debilitating pain and sometimes paralysis.
Public grows sceptical on coal and CSG: poll
James Robertson 9:06 PM A majority of the NSW public now views coal and coal seam gas mining negatively and calling for it to be more tightly regulated, a new poll has found.
Biggest uni entry shake-up in a generation
Eryk Bagshaw 8:21 PM A discussion paper to be released on Thursday outlines new key ATAR requirements for universities.
Public service office squabbles clogging whistleblower scheme
Noel Towell 8:08 PM Complaints over public servants' workplace squabbles are clogging up the system meant to uncover serious corruption and wrongdoing in the federal government sector, according to the man appointed to review the scheme.
Australia's bio-security 'at risk' from striking public servants
Noel Towell 7:51 PM Public servants stood down, docked pay for striking.
'The heat was relentless'
Peter Hannam 6:13 PM From hot oceans to shrinking Arctic ice and glaciers, the evidence of a warming planet has gone into overdrive in the first three months of 2016.
Nobel Prize winner among hundreds of scientists worried by government intervention in science
Henry Belot 5:54 PM A Nobel Prize winner and hundreds of Australian scientists fear new laws granting the Department of Defence power to monitor and control sensitive research are designed to intimidate the scientific community.
Row over office desk winds up in federal tribunal
Noel Towell 5:54 PM A minor public service workplace dispute over an office seating plan goes legal after a bureaucrat claimed she was left psychologically damaged by the incident.
Union claims CSIRO jobs cut swells to 450 as formal complaints lodged
Peter Hannam 5:22 PM Dissent within the ranks of CSIRO is mounting, with the staff union claiming the planned job cuts are deeper than formally announced while dozens of scientists have lodged a formal complaint against alleged bullying behaviour by chief executive Larry Marshall.
Mahjong club ordered to pay more than $415,000 compensation to tea attendant
Anna Patty 4:00 PM A mahjong club has been ordered to pay more than $415,000 in damages after reducing a full-time worker's hours to part-time after he made a workers' compensation claim.
'We didn't have any experience in these matters'
Rachel Browne 1:36 PM When child molestation allegations surfaced, a cricket club had no idea how to act, inquiry told.
Be still my beating heart: atrial fibrillation connected to death of partner
Marcus Strom 11:54 AM It seems dying from a broken heart is more than just a poetic metaphor.
UNSW scientists say they have developed tissue 'repair system' from human fat cells
Marcus Strom Researchers at the University of NSW say they have developed new stem cells that could lay the basis for a system of tissue regeneration.
St Vincent's misled public and failed patients, report finds
Kate Aubusson St Vincent's Hospital misled the public and failed to disclose the seriousness of systemic chemotherapy underdosing to its cancer patients, a damning report reveals, prompting an unreserved apology.
Hertz to refund hundreds of customers
Esther Han Rental car giant Hertz has admitted to wrongly charging customers for pre-existing damages and overcharging for repairs.
'God only knows how many kids he has damaged'
Rachel Browne Three men who were abused by their cricket coach as children have given harrowing evidence to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Kane Constructions sites 'targeted' after CFMEU arrest
Nick Toscano Another major builder claims it was targeted by the militant construction union's top officials who instigated unlawful strikes and temporarily shut down key projects across Melbourne and Geelong.
BOM plan to take over CSIRO climate change research
Adam Morton, Peter Hannam The Bureau of Meteorology has offered to save climate research that CSIRO plans to axe under a plan that would see some long-term programs and dozens of jobs transfer between the two national science agencies.
Gun laws are inadequate: John Howard
Clare Sibthorpe Former PM John Howard says he would encourage strengthening existing gun laws.
Eating whale, Japan style, in the name of science
Daniel Flitton "Whale bacon", it turns out, is critical aspect of scientific inquiry into the habits of peaceful ocean giants.
Public service's 2-year industrial dispute. Seriously?
Noel Towell This government likes to talk about 'the real world'. But this would never happen there.
Soccer mums and dads told to be alert for abuse
Rachel Browne A Football NSW official says parents need to be better educated about the risk of child sexual abuse.
Public service commissioner takes swipe as Border Force battle rumbles on
Henry Belot and Noel Towell Public Service Commissioner John Lloyd has warned unions momentum is on his side
