Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes pleads for a fair go from Australian Olympic officials as tensions flare over "prejudiced" rules imposed on Australian athletes and criticism over pollution and construction delays.
West Australian Labor's shadow cabinet expresses its "unanimous confidence" in Mark McGowan and urges Stephen Smith to withdraw his bid for the leadership, with some accusing him of a "vanity project".
South African authorities will try to extradite an Australian flight attendant and a former police officer over a high-profile 1999 kidnapping and murder.
Kurdish militants are being blamed for a suicide car bomb attack which left 34 people dead and injured more than 100 in the heart of Turkey's capital Ankara, with Australia's ambassador narrowly escaping injury.
Facebook has suspended the profiles of people who shared an article about Aboriginal feminism because it contains a photograph of two Indigenous women in traditional attire.
A stand-alone plebiscite on same-sex marriage could cost the Australian economy more than half a billion dollars, according to new modelling that includes the "total economic cost" of the proposal.
Australia's High Commissioner in Malaysia is in contact with an ABC journalist and cameraman who are being blocked from leaving after attempting to question the country's Prime Minister.
Hundreds of mourners pack a Sydney church and surrounding gardens to remember 17-year-old Olivia Inglis, who was killed in a horse riding accident last week in the Hunter Valley.
Those involved in a brawl that closed down parts of Melbourne's CBD on Saturday night will "feel the full force of the law", Premier Daniel Andrews says, vowing that kind of thuggish behaviour will not be tolerated.
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