For all the love, living with a disability is hard

Chris Meney and the Catholic Church may say intellectual disability brings "enormous joy and happiness to families" ("Our society will be worse off if we reject Down syndrome children", March 29). Their religious views may lead them to that position, but the real world is harshly different.

Eva Braun, the rebel who loved a monster

SHE was the mystery figure at Hitler's side that the world never knew about during the life of the Third Reich. Now the first serious biography of Eva Braun reveals how the hidden first lady of Nazism was the polar opposite of everything her beloved Adolf decreed should be found in a woman.

Things that go bump and fall flat in the night

SYDNEY GHOST STORIES Old Fitzroy, December 1 Until December 19

FICTION

The Portrait Willem Jan Otten Scribe, $27.95 Jetty Road Cath Kenneally Wakefield Press, $24.95 Spiel David Sornig UWA Press, $26.95 The Wrong Grave Kelly Link Text, $22.95

Tigers blow hapless Sharks out of water

Tigers 56 Sharks 10

PM 'has no regard for the truth'

MALCOLM Turnbull has condemned Kevin Rudd as a "political fashionista" with an Orwellian disregard for the truth, who will leave Australia with "debt for as far as the eye can see".

Data plea over agri schemes

INVESTORS with millions of dollars tied up in schemes run by collapsed company Timbercorp have called for more information on the projects' finances, as they face the possibility of losing any claim to their assets.

Face Painting With Bill Leak

3/5 FACE PAINTING WITH BILL LEAK Monday 8pm, ABC1

Prominent Project Paints Street Art In Positive Light

YOUNG people are using a combination of aerosol and traditional art to give the run-down S&W Miller corner site in Newcastle West a bright new face.

West End Puts On New Face For New Year

THEY may not be painting the town red, but Newcastle West End retailers have taken the first step to give their precinct a major facelift in 1998. In an effort to revitalise the area, West End business owners are to be offered paints discounted at up to 55% off normal prices. The move by Pas