Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has stood by comments suggesting it was a mistake to resettle many Lebanese-Muslims in Australia, claiming he spoke the truth
The Senate has rejected the Coalition's backpacker tax proposal and thrown its weight behind a 10.5 per cent rate put forward by senator Jacqui Lambie
Italian confectionery business Ferrero says it's launched an investigation over allegations that Romanian children as young as six were making toys for Kinder Surprise eggs
Archaeologists have uncovered teeth from the extinct Diprotodon at a swamp north of Melbourne. What's a Diprotodon? It's a giant wombat-like marsupial, the largest known of its species which would have weighed about one tonne.
Here's what's coming up:
5:30pm AEDT: Principal at Maurice Blackburn Lawyers Josh Bornstein and cross-cultural consultant Tasneem Chopra are among the guests on The Drum
7:00pm AEDT: An awards ceremony will start for the 2016 Indigenous Governance Awards
7:30pm AEDT: The Brisbane Bullets will take on the Adelaide 36ers in the National Basketball League
8:00pm AEDT: Central Coast will play Perth Glory in the A-League
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton stands by comments suggesting it was a mistake to resettle many Lebanese-Muslims in Australia, claiming he spoke the truth and would not be intimidated.
The Anglican bishop of Newcastle, Greg Thompson, tells a royal commission a priest said in the 1970s he would "get ahead" in the church if he offered sexual favours.
Australia's largest residential apartment developer is being taken to the federal court over claims it has been preventing guests from lodging negative reviews on the influential travel website TripAdvisor.
Queensland criminologist Paul Wilson is sentenced to 18 months in prison for historical child sex offences, despite his defence lawyer arguing for a non-custodial term, saying attitudes toward such offending were different back then.
A 39 year-old man is charged with the stabbing murder of 37-year-old Daryl Corcoran (pictured)earlier this week at Alexandra Hills on Brisbane's Bayside.
The Victorian Government releases a 10-year plan in response to the state's Royal Commission into Family Violence, which will include law reforms to prioritise the safety of victims over the privacy of perpetrators.
Italian confectionery group Ferrero launches an investigation into allegations that Romanian children as young as six were making toys for its Kinder chocolate eggs.
Nine-year-old South African conservationist Hunter Mitchell arrives in Australia to accept a prestigious award from Australia Zoo for his efforts to save an abandoned baby rhino.
Incredible aerial footage showing kilometres of gridlocked traffic in Los Angeles area goes viral, as tens of millions of Americans set out for Thanksgiving holidays.
Three people remain in a critical condition and at least four others have died after Melbourne's "thunderstorm asthma" emergency, Victoria's health department says.
Jamie Murphy is expected to fly home today after Bali police confirmed there were no drugs detected in the Perth teenager's blood and urine, or in the white powder found on him in a nightclub, and he was released from a Kuta police station.
Australian artists make a stand against Sydney's controversial lock-out laws at the ARIA Awards, as Flume picks up five gongs and Montaigne takes the Breakout Artist Award, on a night that saw Crowded House inducted into the Hall of Fame.
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