Bester News

THE two sons of Detective Inspector Paul Jacob have grown from toddlers to teenagers in the time he has overseen the Caroline Byrne homicide investigation. He has answered to four police commissioners who have depended on five police ministers for resources since 1995 when her body was found wedged in a hole at the bottom of The Gap.

Kate McClymont followed the Caroline Byrne story for all its 13 years, including the trial of Byrne's lover-killer.

Thirteen years after Caroline Byrne was thrown off The Gap, her father's judgment is finally vindicated, writes Kate McClymont.

HOUR-LONG phone queues, multiple transfers, hollow promises of people getting back to you … and the automated voice telling you your call is important. Soaring complaints over customer service from telecommunications companies have prompted the Federal Government to crack down on the self-regulated sector.

THE Federal Government has refused to entertain publicly the prospect of a budget deficit to stave off a recession, despite being given the green light by the governor of the Reserve Bank, Glenn Stevens.

THOUSANDS of people have donated money to help the family of two boys and their father who died in Tuesday's Tathra wharf tragedy.

SOME Muslim religious leaders are condoning rape within marriage, domestic violence, polygamy, welfare fraud and the exploitation of women, a report on imam training has found.