http://news.net/Copyright (c) 2012 Publishing Services International Limited. All Rights Reserved. Designated trademarks, brands and domain names are the property of their respective owners.The Housing Crisis Committee is urging the State Government to accelerate plans for more social housing to help ease the accommodation crisis that is leaving some families homeless....http://news.net/article/298529/Politics2013-05-25 12:35:49 Labor backbencher Brenton Best says Tasmania's coalition Government is not working for Tasmanians. Labor member for Braddon Brenton Best says he is struggling to work within the Labor-Greens Government. He believes it is compromising Labor policies and is not working for the people of Tasmania....http://news.net/article/297936/Politics2013-05-24 10:12:31 Tasmania's Premier has not ruled out disciplinary action against a party member who crossed the floor of Parliament on Thursday....http://news.net/article/298707/Politics2013-05-25 02:32:27 The Tasmanian Opposition is challenging the Premier and Treasurer Lara Giddings' justification for this year's record budget deficit....http://news.net/article/298530/Politics2013-05-25 12:35:49 Cheat and put up with the consequences, rather than go through the state's planning system. That's the message from one of Tasmania's most prominent developers, frustrated at the delays business people face when trying to get projects up....http://news.net/article/298659/Politics2013-05-25 02:05:23 Official silence surrounded the case of a Canadian businessman targeted by a corruption probe in Cuba on Friday, as the initial trial of several foreigners suspected of graft entered its second day. Sarkis Yacoubian, 53, who partnered with the Cuban government on multiple ventures, r...http://news.net/article/298761/Politics2013-05-24 17:01:52 The ACT Government says it has no intention of changing the Territory's planning system....http://news.net/article/298419/Politics2013-05-24 11:38:23 It was one of the most perplexing events of Egypt's revolution: orchestrated attacks on prisons around the country that broke out more than 20,000 inmates while police were tied down with the massive popular protests that swept autocrat Hosni Mubarak from power. The prison breaks adde...http://news.net/article/298405/Politics2013-05-23 06:38:00 Malaysian authorities detained three anti-government figures, charged a student activist with sedition and seized hundreds of opposition newspapers Thursday, raising political tensions after recent national elections triggered claims of fraud. Opposition activists hav...http://news.net/article/298393/Politics2013-05-23 13:10:52 The Obama administration has chosen a private attorney and former federal prosecutor who helped send former Illinois Gov. George Ryan to prison for corruption to head the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago, Illinois' senators announced Thursday. Zachary Fardon, 46, would replace Patr...http://news.net/article/298370/Politics2013-05-24 13:41:17 President Barack Obama said Thursday that the Justice Department will review the policy under which it obtains journalists' records in investigations of the leak of government secrets. Obama acknowledged he is "troubled by the possibility that leaks investigations may chill the i...http://news.net/article/298367/Politics2013-05-24 13:37:04 Some labor unions that enthusiastically backed President Barack Obama's health care overhaul are now frustrated and angry, fearful that it will jeopardize benefits for millions of their members. Union leaders warn that unless the problem is fixed, there could be consequences for ...http://news.net/article/298177/Politics2013-05-24 16:39:04 Californians are finally getting to see what "Obamacare" means for them. President Barack Obama's health care overhaul made a big leap Thursday when California's health insurance exchange announced the plans and the prices that will be offered to those buying individual c...http://news.net/article/298070/Politics2013-05-23 23:27:59 An accessible, healthy food supply is urgently needed to tackle the rising and costly problem of obesity, the Public Health Association of Australia says.The health care system cannot tackle the problem alone and strategies to prevent obesity should include shielding children from promotion of unhea...http://news.net/article/297861/Politics2013-05-24 07:38:04 As the federal election sweeps closer, the pressure to sell the politicians and their parties is intensifying - and the strategists are turning to digital technologies like never before to give candidates an edge. ...http://news.net/article/297855/Politics2013-05-24 07:07:03 The University of Canberra has announced a series of measures to rein in costs after recent cuts in the Federal Budget....http://news.net/article/297803/Politics2013-05-24 06:53:09 A betting agency head has admitted a proposal by commercial TV networks on limiting gambling ads during sports broadcasts falls short of public expectations....http://news.net/article/297802/Politics2013-05-24 06:53:09 NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell is facing claims the departure of the two leaders of Infrastructure New South Wales amounts to a vote of no-confidence in him....http://news.net/article/297798/Politics2013-05-24 06:44:53 This autumn more than a quarter of a million hectares of Victoria's high country has been ablaze....http://news.net/article/297797/Politics2013-05-24 06:44:53 A Canadian businessman caught up in a corruption probe in Cuba apparently went on trial Thursday, nearly two years after he was detained and his import company, Tri-Star Caribbean, was shuttered. Sarkis Yacoubian arrived at an Interior Ministry courthouse in Havana in a black sedan w...http://news.net/article/297781/Politics2013-05-23 19:02:59