A "reckless" Clive Palmer instructed Queensland Nickel to pay him nearly $15 million and may have acted as a shadow director for the company, according to an administrators' report which recommends winding up the Townsville-based operation.
The makers of Nurofen should be fined $6 million for misleading conduct, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) tells the Federal Court.
Students hold a snap protest at UNSW after video emerges of Baxter College undergraduates singing an "incredibly degrading" song during a boozy night out.
Karen Street, who unfurled a banner featuring the words #sendthemback at Sunday's AFL match at Bellerive Oval, remains unrepentant but says she will not be doing it again.
Geelong mayor Darryn Lyons intimidated and abused staff, and created a "climate of fear and anxiety", a scathing report tabled in Victoria's Parliament reveals, exposing a culture of bullying and dysfunction within the city's council.
A New Zealand high school is blasted by social media users for instructing its female students to lower their skirt hemlines because they were "distracting" for male teachers.
Convicted bank robber Brenden Abbott is to be extradited to Western Australia, where he faces up to 16 years behind bars, just hours after his release from a Queensland prison where he served 18 years.
The head of Australia's corporate regulator plays down the need for a banking royal commission, but admits that some areas of proactive surveillance have been "removed".
The Australian online currency industry is urgently moving to bring in a code of conduct to stop customers losing money from bitcoin companies that go under.
Police launch a murder investigation after finding the remains of missing teenager Cayleb Hough in a mineshaft in a national park north-west of Melbourne.
A far right-wing political party's attempt to use the Eureka flag as its emblem on election ballot papers earns the ire of Eureka descendants in Ballarat.
Led Zeppelin's lead singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page will face a US jury trial next month over whether they stole the opening chords for their 1971 hit Stairway to Heaven.
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