Rio launches the first Olympic Games in South America with a low-budget opening ceremony at the famous Maracana Stadium that featured a colourful light and sound show, the world's best athletes and supermodel Gisele Bundchen.
Dignity for Disability MP Kelly Vincent says the Federal Government had eight weeks to acknowledge there were problems with the new computer system for the NDIS.
The Queensland coroner will resume its examination of the police investigation into the disappearance of Sunshine Coast schoolboy Daniel Morcombe later this year or early next year.
One of Australia's top rugby union players, Christian Lealiifano, is diagnosed with leukaemia, prompting messages of strength and support from across the rugby community.
Farmers trial solar battery and power systems paid for by the West Australian Government, in an area with some of the state's most unreliable electricity supply.
At a shrine about an hour's drive outside of Tokyo, people of all ages have gathered to say a solemn farewell to the toys and dolls they no longer need, but simply can't throw away.
Queensland laws which ban same-sex couples, singles and people undergoing fertility treatments such as IVF from adopting will be overturned, the State Government says.
A former top CIA official attacks Donald Trump as a danger to national security, saying President Vladimir Putin made the Republican presidential candidate an "unwitting agent" of Russia.
Australian veterans from the Battle of Long Tan will next week receive official recognition for their gallantry, almost 50 years to the day after their heroic efforts in the Vietnam War.
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