| | | | A 38-year-old Hobart DJ charged with allegedly headbutting former Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he intends to plead guilty over the incident. |
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| | We were warned the postal vote would bring out an ugly debate and it has. As always, it's the loony fringes on both sides who are responsible but so far it's the Yes camp that appears to be doing more self-harm, writes David Lipson. |
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| | North Korea's Foreign Minister says his regime may consider testing a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean, as Pyongyang and Washington continue to exchange military threats. |
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| | A school's humble fundraiser to educate girls in Africa has raised more than 200 times its original goal of $900 after a negative tweet by Senator Cory Bernardi prompted a flood of support. |
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| | In Australia, there have been a number of cases of Buruli ulcers, an infection caused by a "flesh-eating" bacteria. If left untreated, it can result in significant disfigurement and disability. Here's what you need to know (and how to avoid it). |
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| | A Brisbane mother has recalled the moment that three generations of her family were nearly killed in a head-on crash when a driver distracted by a mobile phone crossed into their lane. |
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| | A West Australian man who used a mask and a voice-changer to disguise himself before sexually assaulting his stepdaughter during a driving lesson is sentenced to nine years behind bars. |
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| | A helicopter pilot who was on a job when his colleague fell into an Antarctic crevasse tells a coronial inquest he felt helpless upon learning the man had dropped into the icy crack. |
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| | A depressed woman who killed her baby at a park in Melbourne's north-east because she thought her daughter was "possessed" is released on bail to live in crisis accommodation after pleading guilty to infanticide. |
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| | Police release CCTV as they hunt for a man who allegedly stole a $300,000 five-carat diamond from a Sydney jewellery store by switching it with a fake he hid in his pocket. |
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| | There is a distinct lack of government help in Jojutla, compared to the massive emergency response in Mexico City, with residents dealing with the aftermath of the powerful earthquakes. |
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| | A heart surgeon who died after he was punched outside a hospital in Melbourne's east had to be restrained as he was thrashing about after the attack, a court is told. |
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| | The "dominant masculine culture" at a Queensland university normalised "everyday sexism", a report finds, with interviewees reporting male staff used their positions to take advantage of young female students. |
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| | There are concerns the shooting death of a 5.2-metre crocodile in the Fitzroy River in central Queensland will create a power vacuum in the local population, causing younger crocs to become "increasingly aggressive" as they fight for the position left vacant. |
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| | Community programs that treat offenders as victims first can break the cycle of abuse, writes Kirsti Melville. |
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| | A hand-reared deer called Heidi loves spending time with her best bud Tonka, playing chasey, eating grass and chewing on sticks together. |
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| | Liliane Bettencourt, the heiress to the L'Oreal cosmetics empire and the world's richest woman with a fortune of almost $50 billion, dies in Paris aged 94. |
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| | It's been a mystery of astrophysics for decades — where do the most energetic particles that bombard the Earth come from? |
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By political correspondent David Lipson |
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By Allen Cheng, Monash University |
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By Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra |
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