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09 Mar 10 | Job advertisements posted their biggest increase in 11 years last month, more than reversing January's surprise decline, as employers stepped up hiring plans.
09 Mar 10 | The man accused of the manslaughter of three-year-old Indian toddler Gurshan Singh Channa has appeared in court this morning.
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09 Mar 10 | A snake handler was bitten twice in the face by a brown snake in his home in the upper NSW Hunter region overnight, NSW Ambulance says.
09 Mar 10 | POLICE believe Indian toddler Gurshan Singh Channa may not have died if he had received even basic first aid rather than being left in the boot of a car.
09 Mar 10 | A CONFIDENTIAL report into juvenile justice in NSW has found that without an overhaul of government laws and policy regarding young offenders, an additional 123 detention places costing $350 million will be needed within two years.
09 Mar 10 | A LEAFLET advertising the Athena School in Newtown has been referred to the state's consumer watchdog for allegedly obscuring the school's link to Scientology.
09 Mar 10 | TODAY The Sydney Morning Herald has published online more than 700,000 Defence contracts stretching back to 1997.
09 Mar 10 | IT IS not exactly a crucial piece of kit: ''framed original oil on canvas'' for $35,200. But at least it has a military flavour - it was bought from a company called Aviation Art.
09 Mar 10 | THE Defence Department spent as much on travel, accommodation and conferences in the past four years as it would cost to give everyone in the army, navy and air force - about 53,000 people - a new Toyota Corolla.
09 Mar 10 | Despite promises of sweeping reform, Defence spending still appears to be out of control, writes Linton Besser.
09 Mar 10 | COLLEGES assessed to be at greatest risk of collapse would have to pay higher levies, a taskforce would be created to find new places for stranded students and an ombudsman would be set up to handle complaints, as part of a recommended overhaul of Australia's $17 billion international education sector.
09 Mar 10 | LET'S start with the good points about Tony Abbott's policy on maternity leave, because there are only two and it won't take long to cover them.
09 Mar 10 | A DISAPPOINTED Belinda Neal says she has no intention of taking her foot off the pedal and will see out her political career serving constituents in her seat of Robertson.
09 Mar 10 | BOWING to pressure from talkback radio, the opposition and its own backbench, the federal government has delayed for two years a policy to allow beef imports from countries that have had mad cow disease.
09 Mar 10 | THE King's School in Parramatta is punishing a group of its students for their involvement in posting racist comments about Aborigines on a website.
09 Mar 10 | A HOME owner has been ordered to pay $70,000 in compensation to the widow of an electrician who died after working in his roof.
09 Mar 10 | AS HE watched a woman pacing along a cliff top at Watsons Bay, Tony Sklavos was torn. Instinct told him to go to her but the triple-0 operator he was speaking to told him to stay on the phone and ''leave her where she is''.
09 Mar 10 | PERHAPS the other female elephants could tell that things were going seriously wrong.
09 Mar 10 | THE NSW Premier, Kristina Keneally, has banned alcohol at all RTA promotions, admitting that alcohol supplied at a young driver safety event this year sent a ''very confusing message''.
09 Mar 10 | A HUGE body of water that has caused widespread flooding in south-western Queensland is on its way south and is expected to cause extensive flooding in NSW over the next two months.
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