| | Australia's largest gas companies assure the Federal Government they will increase supply to the eastern states next year, potentially avoiding an energy crisis and export restrictions. | | | A United States Senate primary run-off election in the deep red Republican state of Alabama would not, in normal times, be a big deal. But these are anything but normal times, and it is a big deal, writes John Barron. | | | The chairman of energy giant AGL warns of "unanticipated outages" as the ageing coal-fired plant becomes "less reliable" in coming years, and calls for "a greater degree of certainty in policy" from the Federal Government. | | | The emotion of representing Australia at the Invictus Games is too much for one young veteran who almost has Prince Harry in tears. | | | Australia records its highest number of drug-related deaths in two decades, with ABS figures showing prescription drugs used to manage anxiety and pain are the leading cause. | | | Data shows parents with daughters are slightly more likely to separate than those with sons, but the risk disappears when the fathers grew up with a sister. | | | Natasha Robinson broke the story into the war crimes of Dragan Vasiljkovic more than a decade ago, but it is the story of journalist Egon Scotland and his widow Christian Schlotzer — who has waited 26 years for justice — which kept her up at night. | | | Aerial footage of Vanuatu's Monaro volcano shows plumes of smoke, ash and volcanic rocks erupting from its crater, as 7,000 people flee their homes on Ambae island. | | | The North Queensland Cowboys won't get the chance to train at the NRL grand final venue due to recording artist Macklemore needing to rehearse for his performance at the same event. | | | South Australia's new parliamentary broadcast system is barely 24 hours old, but already the gestures of one Labor MP have some keen watchers scratching their heads. | | | The Government has confirmed that if football chiefs cannot find an adequate solution to a governance dispute, it will pull funding for the women's world cup bid. | | | Massive explosions and a blaze at a military ammunition depot in central Ukraine force authorities to evacuate 24,000 people and close airspace over the region. | | | Meet the man who can make you a new set of teeth in the back of a van. | | | Mamdouh Elomar, the father of dead IS fighter Mohamed Elomar, is among three Sydney men jailed for four years for bribing an Iraqi official to get overseas construction contracts. | | | A baby believed to have drowned in a bathtub could still be alive had the Tasmanian Government better resourced the state's child protection system, a union claims. | | | An elderly Queensland couple who could lose their home and business after falling victim to the alleged mastermind of a massive tax-evasion scheme say their plight is "soul destroying" and "devastating". | | | This Canberra retiree says his "badge of honour" — a $20,000 energy system — generates enough power to run all his home energy needs, charge his son's hybrid SUV and sell excess back to the grid. | | | Priority number one, writes Ben Pobjie, is claiming the Southern Cross. Can you imagine the national humiliation if the Kiwis beat us to it? | | | A central Queensland teenager has made the find of a lifetime — a message in a bottle — on a school holiday fishing trip. | | | By Jan Kabatek and David C Ribar, University of Melbourne |
| | By John Barron |
| | By the National Reporting Team's Natasha Robinson |
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