Certified painter 'did not even know what lead paint was'
Australia's peak body for the painting industry has expressed concerns for tradespeople who have been issued qualifications to handle toxic materials without the requisite training.
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Lucy Cormack
Lucy Cormack is Consumer Affairs Reporter with The Sydney Morning Herald.
'Nothing is going to help me': How Phil's perfect retirement came undone
The number of people with dementia in Australia will cost the community more than $14 billion this year alone.
Four adults suffer suspected drug overdose at home with children
Four adults are suspected to have had a drug overdose at a home where three children under the age of 10 were present.
Boy, 16, struck over the head with a glass bottle during brawl in Manly
A brawl in Manly on Saturday night has sent one teenager to hospital.
'Everything was ruined:' Removalist blamed for $30,000 damage
Fair Trading issued a warning on Tuesday not to deal with Extra Mile Movers, a local and interstate removalist company.
Meet the Sydneysiders who bought the Kings Cross Coke sign
The reason four Sydneysiders spend upwards of $10,000 on the giant neon letters of the old King's Cross Coke sign.
More than $57,000 worth of illegal abalone and shark fin seized
More than 3300 illegal abalone and 40 kilograms of shark fin has been seized in raid in western Sydney.
'What if': How Sydney's Gen Y would solve the housing crisis
What suggestions does Sydney's Gen Y population have for NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and her challenge to tackle housing affordability?
'Mass confusion' as energy customers await new net meters
It ends in less than a week, but there is still "mass confusion" about the end of the NSW solar bonus scheme.
Are prawns really going to cost you $50 a kilo this Christmas?
An outbreak of disease in prawn ponds south of Brisbane has some fearing a prawn shortage this Christmas.
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