A Statewide cigarette ban in  prisons is responsible for a near doubling of the number of contraband items  seized from inmatesEfforts to reduce huge waiting times to get an appointment to see some public hospital specialists are slowly paying offHundreds of thousands of mortgage holders are dudding themselves out of huge savings because they don’t know what interest rate they are paying. Jason Gillespie has leapt to the defence of under-fire batsman Travis HeadFor updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription at advertiser.com.au