| | Las Vegas police are locking down parts of the famous US strip, with reports an active shooter is firing a high-powered weapon near the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino. | | | Sydney property prices drop for the first time in almost one-and-a-half years, but strong gains for Hobart and Melbourne continue. | | | Australia is becoming wealthier, but much of that wealth remains concentrated in the hands of older generations. | | | There was violence on the streets of Catalonia during the vote for independence. Find out why Spain is doing everything it can to prevent secession. | | | A young father of three was "let off the leash" by his partner, and got drunk and high, before a dispute over him kissing another woman led to a fatal one-punch attack, Victoria's Supreme Court hears. | | | News agencies fail in their freedom of information bid to get the FBI to reveal details about how the agency hacked into a terrorist's iPhone. But here's what we do know. | | | The mother of a Queensland boy says a severe flu "took over his body", leaving the 10-year-old on life support in a Brisbane hospital. | | | A lengthy and often traumatic court process is contributing to a shockingly low number of child abuse cases ever getting to prosecution. | | | Twitter's experiment with 280-character tweets bears a remarkable resemblance to the time Coca-Cola tried to change its formula. That didn't end well. | | | Tasmanian Labor senator Helen Polley says she is under internal party pressure to publicly declare her support for same-sex marriage, despite opposing it. | | | The two women accused of fatally poisoning the estranged half brother of North Korea dictator Kim Jong-un plead not guilty nearly eight months after the airport assassination. | | | Melbourne's Federation Square is overrun by the "purple haze" as Storm fans flock to celebrate premiership glory with the team and plead for Billy Slater not to retire. | | | Police in Papua New Guinea confirm an asylum seeker on Manus Island died overnight with friends of the man from Sri Lanka saying it appeared he took his own life. | | | India's former environment minister Jairam Ramesh says he is "absolutely appalled" by the Australian Government's approval of the Adani Group's massive coal mine in North Queensland, adding it will threaten the survival of the Great Barrier Reef. | | | Tasmanian bricklayer Noel Peters has devoted his life to Goju-ryu karate and he's passing on the secrets of the martial art which has been centuries in the making. | | | If the world is to have any chance of avoiding nuclear war, Donald Trump must build trust. If he can't, America must find a way to do it without him, writes David Gillespie. | | | There are fears some of our favourite baked goods could face a price hike as a national butter shortage puts pressure on Australian food producers. | | | A group of eminent economists is tipping that borrowers could face an official interest rate rise within the next six months. | | | FC Barcelona plays in a completely deserted Nou Camp stadium amid the chaos surrounding the Catalonia independence referendum, as hated rivals Real Madrid hand out Spanish flags to their fans. | | | Key infrastructure near Perth's Swan River, including part of the Kwinana Freeway, is at serious risk of permanent flooding by 2100 due to rising sea levels, researchers say. | | | The close-knit community of Swansea on Tasmania's east coast grieves the loss of a six-year-old boy, killed by a log truck being reversed by his father. | | | By Warren Boland |
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| | By Collette Snowden, University of South Australia |
| | By Trent Wiltshire and Danielle Wood, Grattan Institute |
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