May 8, 2013 Judges inevitably and necessarily bring personal prejudices to their decisions and those who claim to be above such behaviour are probably most likely to do so, a former president of the NSW Court of Appeal has said.

May 8, 2013 Council rates would be slashed for house owners but apartment dwellers could pay hundreds of dollars more under changes being considered in a local government review.

May 8, 2013 One of NSW's most senior female indigenous officials is set to lose her job.

May 8, 2013 Job seekers would be allowed to earn more from casual or part-time work before losing Newstart benefits under budget changes designed to help lift them out of poverty without increasing the dole.

May 8, 2013 Deep concern about the high Australian dollar drove the Reserve Bank to cut its cash rate to the lowest level on record on Tuesday, a cut quickly passed on by all but one of the big banks.

May 8, 2013 The federal public service shed nearly 3000 jobs last year, the first time in a decade the Commonwealth bureaucracy has shrunk.

May 8, 2013 It's not a complaint often heard but Philip Haynes believes interest rates have dropped too far.

May 7, 2013 This year's extreme weather is continuing as Sydney enjoys its longest late-season hot spell in decades, inland records tumble and regions around Perth prepare for a cyclonic-strength storm.

May 7, 2013 Agents and analysts have welcomed Tuesday's interest rate cut, with LJ Hooker describing the move as "historic".

May 7, 2013 Humans did not hunt megafauna to extinction, scientists say.