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Live: Major parties lock horns in Question Time on budget eve
The leaks continue on budget eve as the Government commits to fund rail projects in Sydney and Melbourne. Follow live at the start of what will be a hectic week in federal politics.
 
Refugee who set himself alight 'went 10 hours without morphine'
An Iranian refugee who died after setting himself on fire at the Nauru detention centre was without doctor's care for two hours at the medical facility and lay in agony for a further eight hours before morphine was administered, his wife says.
 
Ex-priest John Farrell jailed for at least 18 years over child sex assaults
Applause erupts from the court gallery as former priest John Joseph Farrell is sentenced to a minimum of 18 years for a string of sexual assaults on children in the 1970s and 80s in New South Wales.
 
Coroner finds Geoffrey Hunt strangled Lucille Butterworth
A coroner finds person of interest Geoffrey Hunt strangled Hobart woman Lucille Butterworth on an August night in 1969, in one of Tasmania's longest-running missing person cases.
 
'He did a nice job': Trump a good sport over Obama roasting
A day after being mocked by Barack Obama at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Donald Trump takes the jibes in his stride, saying the US President "did a nice job".
 
7-Eleven franchisee fined more than $200,000
A Federal Court fines a western Sydney 7-Eleven operator more than $200,000 for deliberately short-changing two migrant employees and falsifying records.
 
Firefighters hit by falling bricks as blaze destroys Sydney church
Several firefighters are injured by falling bricks and two retirement home residents are taken to hospital as a fire destroys a church in Rockdale.
 
Negative gearing driving house prices up, Liberal MP concedes
Liberal MP John Alexander, who led a parliamentary inquiry into housing affordability, concedes negative gearing has contributed to Australia's biggest ever housing boom and led to a market "dominated by speculative investors".
 
Telstra to spend $50m to prevent mobile network failures
Telstra will spend an additional $50 million on its mobile network in a bid to prevent ongoing outages that have left customers fuming.
 
Sister of Auburn politician Salim Mehajer crowned Miss Lebanon Australia
The sister of the controversial former deputy mayor of Auburn, Salim Mehajer, is crowned Miss Lebanon Australia.
 
Fears carp eradication program will damage environment, tourism sector
A dramatic plan to eradicate European carp from the Murray-Darling river system using the herpes virus may cause a pollution problem with dead fish littering waterways, a carp catcher fears.
 
Backlash as CIA 'live tweets' 2011 killing of Osama bin Laden
The CIA's 'live tweeting' of the secret night-time mission that killed Osama bin Laden five years ago sparks an online backlash, with users condemning the move as "grotesque" and "embarrassing".
 
How many federal politicians negatively gear property?
Almost one in two federal politicians own an investment property, according to an analysis of their registers of interests.
 
Australian goalkeeper dies in hospital after being struck by lightning
Australian goalkeeper Stefan Petrovski dies in hospital after being struck by lightning during training in Malaysia.
 
Analysis and Opinion: The Drum
By Ian Verrender Budget 2016 must prepare for a post-China future
By Ian Verrender
By Paula Matthewson Libs to play the imitation game in budget 2016
By Paula Matthewson
By Ben Pobjie CIA live-tweets: Why stop at bin Laden?
By Ben Pobjie
By Mungo MacCallum How PNG sank the subs fanfare
By Mungo MacCallum
 
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World
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Business
Business conditions and confidence ease but remain solid
Westpac records $3.9 billion half-year profit
Negative gearing driving house prices up, Liberal MP concedes
 
Politics
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls defends visit to Australia
Budget jargon buster: work through the waffle
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Sport
Kangaroos need to win back public support: Smith
Wanderers at risk of points deduction as FFA investigates grand final flares
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Science and Tech
Pop goes the Large Hadron Collider, shut down by weasel
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Environment
Kenya torches world's biggest ivory bonfire to save elephants
33 rescued circus lions flown to South African refuge
Ranger mine rehab deal welcomed after Rio Tinto offers $100m clean-up loan
 

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