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The doctors most likely to skip approvals

The revelations have put added pressure on NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner.

Some medical specialties are more inclined to disregard guidelines on antibiotic use, with orthopaedic surgeons at Royal North Shore Hospital the top offenders among those who skipped the approval process for restricted drugs.

ASIO concerned about lone-wolf right wing attacks

Protesters from rival anti-racism and anti-Islam groups face off in Coburg in May.

ASIO's monitoring of the aggressive right-wing extremist movement uncovered alleged plans to attack an "extreme left" target, and led to the arrest last week of Braybrook man Phillip Galea.

Crown training scheme for retrenched workers a 'rort'

Crown's training scheme has not proven a golden ticket for retrenched workers.

A deal struck struck by the Victorian Government with Crown Casino to retrain 500 retrenched workers in return for a lucrative extension to its monopoly gambling licence has enrolled just 10 so far. The revelation has put its taxpayer-subsidised private training facility in the spotlight.

Predator in the open

Daniel Watson used everyday social media sites and apps to commit his crimes.

He lives in jail now but for more than two years, while blackmailing young Australian girls to send him pornographic selfies on social media, he lived alone in a dirty garage in outer Melbourne.

The demise of walking

Tara Wells says people have stopped walking just "for the hell of it".

When was the last time you went for a walk? For many of us, the notion of walking for pure pleasure might as well be science-fiction.

Tax men swoop on dodgy firms

ATO Deputy Commissioner Michael Cranston.

Up to 120 Australian Tax Office and Australian Securities and Investment Commission investigators yesterday raided 13 Melbourne and Brisbane offices and homes as part of a major investigation into corrupt bankruptcy businesses.

Super scientist and Lego role model talks dinosaurs and dark matter

Physics professor Lisa Randall is co-author of a paper that suggests dark matter may have played a role in the ...

American theoretical physicist and cosmologist Dr Lisa Randall is a highly distinguished player in a scientific field that boasts a hefty whack of household names. Her status, however, is unique – but not because she is a female scientist in a discipline numerically dominated by men.