Two workers walked off the job over safety concerns, with one fearing "someone was going to die", days before two men were crushed to death by 9-tonne concrete slabs at a construction site in Brisbane's Eagle Farm, the CFMEU reveals.
Donald Trump promises to be a "better man" after video surfaces of him making sexist comments in 2005, but claims Bill Clinton abused women and his wife Hillary intimidated the "victims".
The Law Council of Australia is lobbying state and territory governments to soften public liability laws and increase payout thresholds, with insurance companies making millions while the injured are out of pocket.
A man is charged with murder after allegedly driving a council four-wheel-drive into a house full of mourners, north-west of Cairns, killing a woman who was sitting by a coffin.
Queensland's Attorney General rejects a plea for an inquest by the man who was jailed for nearly 15 years for the 1991 murder of Ipswich schoolgirl Leanne Holland.
New South Wales Health flatly rejects a report's recommendation to use NAPLAN, the nation's literacy and numeracy testing system, to compare childhood obesity among NSW schools.
Just one day after the Government announced it was scrapping a troubled loan scheme for vocational education courses, a private training college has announced it is going into liquidation.
Small telcos in regional Australia are finding a way around the data drought, by setting up fixed wireless networks that broadcast a signal to paying customers in town from high elevation points like grain silos, bucket elevators and buildings.
Prosecutors criticise the retrial granted to Adnan Syed, the convicted murderer at the centre of popular 2014 podcast Serial, saying "media attention to a case should not influence the outcome".
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