It's White Ribbon Day and Australia's response to domestic violence has remained in the spotlight in Canberra. Social Services Minister Christian Porter said the Government was open to Labor's proposal for one week of paid domestic violence leave for public servants, while senior members of the Foreign Affairs Department walked up the hill in high heels to raise awareness of the issue. Keep up to date with all the day's politics on our live blog
Russian president Vladimir Putin has called Turkish forces who shot down a Russian fighter jet "the accomplices of terrorists". Turkey said it issued 10 warnings in five minutes that the jet was violating Turkish airspace
A Sydney woman who required a life-saving stem cell transplant, using her own healthy cells, has been refused cover because there was no donor involved. Brooke Duggan's health insurance policy was written in the 1990s, before scientific breakthroughs made it possible for doctors to treat patients with severe scleroderma, like Ms Duggan, using their own cells
In case you missed it reporter Heidi Davoren has collected stories from Australians who have lost loved ones this year. In each of the tragic cases, the woman's partner or ex-partner has been charged in relation to her death or has been named as the suspect in a murder-suicide
Here's what's coming up today:
7.00pm AEDT: National Disability Award winners announced in a ceremony at Parliament House
7.30pm AEDT: Sydney v Illawarra in the National Basketball League
8.30pm AEDT: Part two of Hitting Home, Sarah Ferguson's domestic violence investigation, airs on ABC
1.00am AEDT Thursday: Pope Francis arrives in Kenya to kick off a five-day visit that also includes Uganda and the Central African Republic
6.00am AEDT Thursday: French president Francois Hollande holds talks with German chancellor Angela Merkel on EU coordination in the fight against Islamic State
These Australian women all died this year. What they have in common is police have laid charges against their partners or ex-partners. Here, the women's families and friends share the stories of their lives.
Structures are lost and there are reports firefighters have been injured while battling a blaze near Mallala, north of Adelaide. It is one of two bushfires burning out of control in South Australia.
A Russian soldier has been killed during a botched mission to rescue a crewman from a Russian warplane blown out of the sky by Turkish fighter jets near the Syrian border.
The Government says it's considering bringing in paid leave for domestic violence victims, as male bureaucrats don high heels to walk in a woman's shoes on White Ribbon Day.
A man who stabbed his father and stepmother to death with a hunting knife and admitted to wanting to kill his siblings is sentenced to 42 years in jail.
Suspected Paris attacks ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud allegedly returned to the scene of the crime while the Bataclan siege was still underway and was said to be planning a suicide bombing in the CBD.
The death of a British tourist who fell from a cliff edge at Kings Canyon prompts the Northern Territory coroner to call for stricter permit conditions for tour operators.
An ad for "easy on the eye" women to act as beer maids for "20 handsome guys" at the upcoming Adelaide Test match is deleted by classifieds website Gumtree after it received complaints.
High-tech drum lines and shark-tracking drones will be used to protect beachgoers on NSW's north coast this summer after a series of attacks this year.
Sydney Swans draftee Tyrone Leonardis apologises to the club for an embarrassing social media gaffe where he supported posts taking aim at club legend Adam Goodes.
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