| | | | Peak hour on Monday morning at the start of school holidays. If you had to imagine the worst possible occasion for an air traffic control system failure, today would be it. Here's how it sounded over the radios. |
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| | Authorities are expecting a backlog of delayed flights at Sydney Airport to clear this evening after a computer glitch forced the cancellation of dozens of flights earlier in the day. |
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| | Bali's Mount Agung could erupt at any moment. But if you're one of the thousands of Aussies planning to travel to the island for holidays, you're probably wondering what to do. Let's answer some questions for you. |
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| | American football is essentially a game played by black men for the entertainment of white men, but fans are switching off, writes John Barron. |
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| | Charles Bolden, the recently retired head of NASA, says he was surprised it took Australia this long to announce a national space agency. |
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| | It is sometimes argued that attitudes to same-sex marriage are deeply entrenched and attempts to alter them are pointless. However, research suggests peoples' views are more malleable than first thought. |
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| | Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull warns the energy industry the Government has export controls "ready to go" if they don't address an expected gas shortfall, after two reports warn the shortages could be much worse than expected. |
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| | A teenager who allegedly sexually assaulted a housemate several times in a disability group home posed a threat to residents for months because of authorities' "shocking" failure to act, Victoria's ombudsman finds. |
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| | "I'll give you a couple of seconds to stereotype me" is how Frida Deguise opens her stand-up sets. She tells Lateline about religion, playing on people's prejudices and how audiences receive her work. |
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| | Brace yourself for an avalanche of references to fairytales this week, with the Cowboys looking to scale NRL's Everest in beating the Melbourne Storm in a grand final, writes Warren Boland. |
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| | The lawyer for Alex Reuben McEwan admits his client caused the death Korean exchange student Eunji Ban, who was found beaten to death in a Brisbane park in 2013, but pleads not guilty based on his mental state at the time, a murder trial hears. |
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| | Trent Cotchin is cleared to play in the AFL grand final after the match review panel decides not to charge the Richmond captain for his clash with Dylan Shiel. |
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| | The numbers no longer stack up when it comes to coal-fired power: wind and solar are cheaper, and rising electricity costs have more to do with gas prices and network costs than any "green scheme", writes Ian Verrender. |
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| | Being busy and feeling overwhelmed is a fairly normal state for many of us, yet there are plenty of reasons why we should say no and slow down. But how do you make that shift? |
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| | A men's shed is normally a place of testosterone and sawdust, but one Queensland shed takes on a feminine touch for a very special event. |
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| | No-one should be hoodwinked into believing that the move by the big four banks to drop withdrawal fees on automatic teller machines is all about putting the customer first, writes Peter Ryan. |
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| | It seems likely the history books will record September 24, 2017, as the day the German "grand coalition" was put on ice for a bit, writes James Glenday. |
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| | A 36-year-old man who was awaiting trial over a blast at the Canberra headquarters of the Australian Christian Lobby has killed himself. |
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| | A country football oval is turned into a collie-seum as hundreds of the cuddly canines stand still for a moment for a very special photograph. |
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By John Barron |
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By Warren Boland |
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By Nick Haslam, University of Melbourne |
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By national technology reporter Jake Sturmer |
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