A website advertising sexual massages from "young Asian girls" and boys on the Gold Coast has prompted calls for tighter restrictions on the massage industry
ABC political editor Chris Uhlmann is in Laos as PM Malcolm Turnbull attends the ASEAN summit. He says behind the impenetrable bureaucratise of the obligatory communiques, the leaders are having very frank conversations about the new geopolitical reality
Australia's economy grew by 3.3 per cent over the year to June, the best annual GDP growth in four years. The Bureau of Statistics says a fall in resources sector construction was offset by public investment, such as transport infrastructure
Farmer Maisie Brooks checks her Angus cattle on the motorbike and maintains a large vegetable garden and orchard. But at 90 years old she says she is not ready to retire from the farm business just yet
Here's what's coming up:
6:30pm AEST: Labor senator Sam Dastyari is due to give a lecture at the University of Queensland
7:30pm AEST: Treasurer Scott Morrison will be interviewed on 7.30, following today's release of economic growth data
11:00pm AEST: Leaders arrive for a formal dinner at the ASEAN summit in Vientiane, Laos
3:00am AEST Thursday: Apple is expected to unveil new models of its iPhone and possibly Apple Watch
6:30am AEST Thursday: The Paralympics opening ceremony begins
Barnaby Joyce says a new farm register shows foreign investors own "a substantial amount" of Australian land, as the Treasurer downplays the figures and the Trade Minister says fears over Chinese ownership have been exaggerated.
Police charge the operator of a rogue tyre recycling business at the centre of a recent ABC expose with making threatening phone calls to a former associate.
There are no pictures of Vladimir Putin's encounter with Malcolm Turnbull at the G20 in Hangzhou. But his blunt message on the Syrian war could not have been clearer — and it was emblematic of Russia and China's new confidence in the world, writes Chris Uhlmann.
A Gold Coast councillor says a website advertising sexual massages from young girls and boys may force children into the sex industry, and calls for massage parlours to be licensed like brothels before the Commonwealth Games.
Malcolm Turnbull says an Islamic State propaganda magazine's calls for attacks in Sydney and Melbourne should be taken seriously, with terrorists looking for soft targets after setbacks on the battlefields of Syria and Iraq.
Australia's flagbearer for the Rio Paralympics opening ceremony, Brad Ness, will march rather than roll after a crowdfunding campaign raised $10,000 in three months.
A Supreme Court judge grants an urgent bid to freeze high-profile lawyer Tim Meehan's assets amid allegations in court proceedings he swindled a law firm out of over $160,000.
The Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne is worried about the growing number of parents reaching for the quick-fix of over-the-counter cough and cold medicines for young children that could potentially cause them harm.
An Australian forensic pathologist is detained and will be deported after giving controversial evidence in the Indonesian murder trial of a woman accused of killing her friend with cyanide-laced coffee.
A NASA satellite captures images of the sun that photographers and stargazers can only dream about as the Earth and moon block the sun simultaneously in a double eclipse.
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