| | Young Australians are being targeted in the biggest overhaul of private health insurance in decades, with premium discounts on the cards and a big focus on mental health. | | | If you're in your 20s and have been tossing up whether or not to buy private health insurance, take a look at what the Government's proposed shake-up could do for you. | | | Every time a mogul is exposed for being a grub, a harasser or a rapist, I wonder about the ensuing conversations with their children, especially their daughters, writes Julia Baird. | | | The New South Wales woman and her partner will both spend three decades behind bars for torturing and killing the boy in a case so horrific it led traumatised police officers to quit the force. | | | The actor condemns Harvey Weinstein's alleged actions on Twitter, but is forced to apologise for his own sexual harassment of MTV host Hilarie Burton in 2003. | | | The One Nation senator argues it would be un-Australian to kick him out of Federal Parliament, as the High Court reserves its decision on the Citizenship Seven but notes the urgency of the matter. | | | Is this the quiet death of the iconic television series for Australian audiences? | | | A man who used a hunting knife to kill his ex-partner's date in a Sydney restaurant is sentenced to at least 30 years' jail, in an attack described in court as "extreme domestic violence". | | | What is believed to be human remains are found near a crocodile-infested creek in far north Queensland as police search for a missing elderly woman. | | | A man who laughed and smiled after the remainder of his sentence was suspended after pleading guilty to unlawfully killing a four-year-old boy outrages the Queensland Premier and prompts the Attorney-General to consider appealing the decision to release him. | | | A truck driver says he gave 17-year-old hitchhiker Hayley Dodd a lift to the WA town of Badgingarra on the day she went missing, telling the Supreme Court she seemed a "very bubbly" and "happy" girl. | | | A degree is meant to get you set for a lifetime of learning and earning, but is the modern university system delivering on its promises to students? | | | Snoop Dogg and Sean Diddy Combs back Eminem and T-Pain calls for his protection after he unleashes a lyrical tirade against President Donald Trump and told his fans who support the President to pick a side. | | | The Federal Government says it's not to blame after a mystery hacker, nicknamed "Alf" after the character from Home and Away, steals sensitive information about top-secret warplanes, navy ships and Collins Class submarines from a Defence subcontractor. | | | A bushwalker and his dog stumble into a mid-water stand-off with a huge kangaroo in WA's South West. | | | Researchers say the future of Australia's energy market is dynamic and that base load power is a thing of the past. | | | The US Government has purged Kaspersky software from its computers, but in Australia it's business as usual, with the Russian firm which once sponsored the Sea Eagles still providing "information security" services to several Federal Government departments. | | | The story of a former Thai king slaying a Burmese prince in a duel while riding elephants is at the centre of a police investigation against an elderly Buddhist intellectual, who faces 15 years in jail for questioning the historical accuracy of the event. | | | The AFL's peak body in New South Wales steps in after a complaint female players at a regional club were pressured to run around in their underwear during post-season celebrations. | | | Indian fans in Guwahati hold up signs apologising for the incident that saw a rock shatter a window of the Australian cricket team's bus. | | | US investigators are trying to uncover why it took a family at least 12 hours to report a three-year-old boy missing after he was left behind in a Utah corn maze. | | | Looking confused, Clive Palmer's Bulgarian-born brother-in-law arrives 10 minutes late and wheels in three boxes full of documents to the Federal Court as part of the examination into Queensland's Nickel's collapse. | | | US President Donald Trump is threatening NBC's broadcast licences because he's not happy with how its news division has covered him. But experts say his threats aren't likely to lead to any action. | | | Dramatic footage shows police officers arrested the driver of an alleged stolen truck at gunpoint in Singleton. | | | By Julia Baird |
| | By David King, University of Queensland |
| | By David Evans Bailey, Auckland University of Technology |
| | By Michael Visontay |
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