Labor MP Emma Husar is seething over Senator Pauline Hanson's comments that children with disabilities are putting a strain on teachers and schools. It's a rage that's personal as well as political — her 10-year-old son Mitch is on the autism spectrum.
"The autistic kids are the ones left behind". That's what one woman with a special needs child had to say in the wake of Pauline Hanson's "totally deplorable" call for them to be removed from mainstream classrooms.
It's well known younger people are struggling to buy their first home, but experts are also warning of a "significant crisis" facing older Australians already in the market.
US President Donald Trump vows he will eventually get funding for his proposed wall on the Mexican border, saying he is considering a barrier clad with solar panels that would "create energy and pay for itself".
An Air Asia pilot is sentenced to 13 years in jail for sexually assaulting a Perth woman, after he was arrested when travelling through Sydney airport with his family more than 20 years later.
Transcripts of phone conversations purporting to reveal former ATO deputy chief Michael Cranston warning his son he was at risk of being implicated in the biggest tax fraud in Australian history are tendered in court.
At what was meant to be a formal but scaled-back affair, Queen Elizabeth II delivers a speech to Parliament on the UK Government's legislative program. But the more austere affair didn't stop some awkward moments.
Playing through the pain of a busted shoulder, Johnathan Thurston's unerring conversion to win Origin II for Queensland begs the question: Does JT even experience nerves?
The Iraqi Army releases a photo it says shows Islamic State militants have blown up the centuries-old Grand al-Nuri Mosque of Mosul where leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared their "caliphate" three years ago.
A juror in Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial reveals that two holdouts who refused to convict the comedian led to 52 hours of deliberations that were so tense one juror punched a wall.
An "anonymous source" pays the rates for Tasmanian properties owned by a family that was refusing to do so on the basis their land is owned by the "Heavenly Father".
A man who tried to hire a hitman for $20,000 to kill his former wife is jailed for his crimes, which involved attempts to recruit bikie gang members to carry out the "callous, cowardly and utterly contemptible" plan.
Got a good name for a good dog? The Queensland Police Service is recruiting the public in the naming of its seven new puppies, destined to become the next breed of police dogs.
Oncologist Bronwyn King spent a decade helping patients suffering the consequences of smoking, only to discover she was an unwitting investor in big tobacco. That was the moment she decided to fight back.
Australian actress Rebel Wilson has not provided any evidence that she lost money or roles as a result of defamatory articles about her, magazine giant Bauer Media tells court, as the Hollywood star vows to give away any money she receives in damages.
A 49-year-old man with a "hatred for the United States" allegedly yelled "Allahu Akbar" before stabbing a police lieutenant in the neck at a Michigan airport.
What do you do when your heart is racing at what feels like a million miles an hour? The answer, for some, is to lie on your back, with legs in the air, and blow hard.
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