Barrister faces graft probe on ‘bribe’
A NSW barrister allegedly told a client he could make a police investigation “go away” in return for a bribe to a prosecutor.
Natasha Robinson
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Quadriplegic dies in nursing home
A QUADRIPLEGIC who won the right to starve to death has died in a Perth nursing home.
Push to raise pension age above 67
AUSTRALIA must consider raising the pension age beyond the planned new qualifying limit of 67, as our ageing population places the economy under extraordinary pressure.
Macklin’s intervention avoids wreck
IF anyone needed further evidence of the Northern Territory government’s ongoing failure in indigenous policy, here it is.
Building fund shrinking by the day
WHEN it was revealed Northern Territory ministers had been warned that less than half the promised 750 houses would be built under the $672 million Strategic Indigenous Housing and Infrastructure Program, federal minister Jenny Macklin went on the attack.
Refugees in their own land
ON lush islands off Australia’s tropical northern coast and in the desert interior, three Aboriginal communities live in hope.
Wood sides with Labor to avert NT poll
LABOR will hold on to power in the Northern Territory after independent member for Nelson Gerry Wood sided with the Government.
Tiwi Islanders feel short-changed
THE alliance of building companies in charge of delivering housing on the Tiwi Islands has told the Aboriginal community of Nguiu it will receive fewer than one-third of the houses originally promised by the federal government.
Miracle of correspondence underground
UNDERNEATH a fibro house in the beachside southern stretches of Sydney dubbed “God’s country”, my grandfather has created a den.
MP accused of running own agenda
FORMER Labor minister Alison Anderson has called for GST grants to the Northern Territory to be tied to indigenous outcomes.
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