The accused murdered of teenager Masa Vukotic has sacked his defence team during a plea hearing this afternoon. He's told a court: "I want to apologise for my crime"
Julie Bishop has said she is "focusing on the positives" amid internal party criticism of the Paris climate deal. Meanwhile at The Drum, Annabel Crabb asks: Who will speak for the sceptics now?
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Here's what's coming up tonight:
7.30pm local time: Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar speaks to ABC's 7.30
9.30pm AEDT: Angela Merkel will speak at conference of her conservative Christian Democratic Union amid growing dissent over her approach to asylum seekers
2.45am AEDT Tuesday: Barack Obama delivers a speech at the Pentagon on the campaign against Islamic State
4.00am AEDT Tuesday: France's foreign minister Laurent Fabius meets with US Secretary of State John Kerry on the conflict in Syria
4.00am AEDT Tuesday: Intergovernmental conference on Turkey's bid to join the EU in Brussels
The LNP executive blocks federal MP Ian Macfarlane from moving from the Liberals to the Nationals partyroom, quashing the Nationals' hopes to gain an extra Cabinet seat.
Around $500,000 in unclaimed charity donations has now been transferred to government accounts after being unclaimed for several years, with the Salvation Army alone losing $100,000.
A man who stabbed his four-year-old son to death is found not guilty of murder by reason of mental incompetence. In a victim impact statement, the boy's mother says her grief is "beyond comprehension" but vows to use the tragedy to raise awareness of mental illness.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says she is "focusing on the positives" in the face of criticism from Liberal backbenchers over the historic climate change deal reached in Paris.
Money allegedly intended for the Islamic State terrorist group was found by the mother of a rollover witness as she went to wash his clothes, a Sydney court hears.
Former politician and now Lifeline chairman John Brogden calls on the Government to set a suicide prevention target, one decade on from a failed attempt to take his own life.
A leading analyst says tomorrow's mid-year budget update will be new Treasurer Scott Morrison's chance to "take out the trash" of his predecessor Joe Hockey.
A court finds Nurofen made misleading claims around some of its products by advertising that they relieve specific types of pain when they all contain the same active ingredient.
This year's Geminids meteor shower is set to provide a spectacular finale to the International Year of Light, with an estimated 150 meteors an hour expected to light up the moonless night skies.
Twenty20 veteran Brad Hodge says games with packed houses beat playing Tests in front of "half-baked arenas", and we can expect more players to snub Tests for the lucrative, shortened version of the game.
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