Former prime minister Tony Abbott says $40 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority should be cut because it's paying pensions to "terrorists". Foreign Minister Julie Bishop responded by saying Australia's aid program has "robust risk management"
Were your teachers wrong about grammar? There's a good chance they were. Misty Adoniou from the University of Canberra says what you've been told about starting sentences with conjunctions and ending them with prepositions is incorrect - and that's just the start.
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7:10pm AEDT: Hobart Hurricanes play Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash League
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A DJ at a rave where a man died on New Year's Day after taking an unknown drug says he noticed unusual behaviour from dozens of people at the event, with four in particular looking "out of control".
A manhunt continues in Turkey for an assailant who unleashed a spray of bullets in front of and inside a crowded Istanbul nightclub during New Year's celebrations, killing at least 39 people before fleeing.
Two Iranian asylum seekers who advocates say were beaten by PNG police on New Year's Eve, leaving one with a broken jaw and the other urinating blood, are released from custody and allowed to seek medical attention.
The Federal Government defends its foreign aid program after former PM Tony Abbott reportedly says funds going to the Palestinian Authority are being used to pay pensions "to terrorists and their families".
Fourteen people have lost their lives in NSW after getting into trouble in water during the Christmas period, leaving rescue workers to warn it is the "season of distractions" that can quickly prove fatal.
A 20-year-old learner driver returns a breath test of 0.187 per cent after being found driving the wrong way up a Melbourne street in the early hours of New Year's Day.
Paul McKenzie became paralysed from the waist down after an accident two decades ago, but on Sunday — the first of the first — he welcomed the birth of his daughter, the first child born in Darwin in 2017.
Mariah Carey was "essentially flying blind" because of technical problems during a botched performance on New Year's Eve in Times Square, a representative says.
Italy's investigators are ramping up their efforts to stop organised criminal gangs — including the mafia — from smuggling people into the country, in the face of record asylum seeker arrivals.
Blessed with clear skies, the 2016 Woodford Folk Festival's attendance figures are up on previous years, ahead of planned changes to democratise the way the festival is organised.
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