| | | | Liberal senator Stephen Parry tells the Government he may be a dual citizen, saying he has asked British authorities to examine his history and that he will resign from the Parliament if he is found to also hold dual citizenship. | | | | The 600 men refusing to leave the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea have been told they must leave the facility. | | | | She never wanted to speak to him again, but felt pressured by investigators to make the call, believing her sexual assault case would fail without a recorded confession. | | | | A Perth court hears harrowing testimony from a 13-year-old girl, who says her father stayed in the room while she was sexually abused by strangers because he was making sure she was "OK" and "calming her down." | | | | Experts cast doubt on the survival story of two US women who said they spent five months adrift at sea before being rescued by a navy ship, after the Coast Guard revealed the pair had an emergency beacon on board their boat but never activated it. | | | | Spacey's spin-doctors have diffused sexual assault allegations with his "coming out". But it's the LGBT community who suffer, writes Alex McKinnon. | | | | The big Swiss investment bank has found Chinese capital controls are rapidly cooling Sydney property prices to such an extent the RBA may have to cut rates to stop a wider economic downturn. | | | | As the micro-home fascination builds in Australia, see the houses and their floorplans that show you can live in less than 90 square metres. | | | | With former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort facing a lengthy prison term, special counsel Robert Mueller's first manoeuvre in the Russia "collusion" probe could be the crux of a bigger strategy, writes Washington bureau chief Zoe Daniel. | | | | Comedian John Oliver calls the campaign over the same-sex marriage postal survey "the weirdest waste of Australian money since every Baz Luhrmann movie" in a segment on his Last Week Tonight satirical news program. | | | | Five-star hotels in Perth are offering premium rooms for as little as $127 a night as they fight to improve plummeting occupancy rates in the wake of stiff competition from Airbnb and a glut of new accommodation. | | | | One Nation will field fewer candidates because party members "believed" Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk's assertion she would not call an early poll, One Nation state leader Steve Dickson says. | | | | A senior doctor who was based on Nauru fears asylum seekers with severe medical conditions could die due to delays in accessing treatment. | | | | Close to 80 per cent of Australians have voted in the optional same-sex marriage postal survey, and appetite is growing for giving the public another chance to have a say. | | | | Welcome to North Richmond, where paramedics had to rush off to help their colleagues attend to a suspected overdose 50 metres from where the Premier had just announced a safe injecting room. | | | | John Kinghorn, the 76-year-old founder of RAMS Home Loans, allegedly avoided more than $30 million in tax obligations, with the AFP and international agencies investigating him for eight years before bringing charges. | | | | Cricketer Chris Gayle celebrates a defamation trial win on social media as the judge who presided over his case against Fairfax Media says she is "troubled" by a statement issued by the company. | | | | Ange Postecoglou names a 25-man squad that will seal Australia's World Cup qualifying fate at a feisty media conference in Sydney in which he refuses to answer questions about his future. | | | | Ross says he can't afford a house — but his mate Cam has bought several properties and reckons it's easier than people make out. We sat them down to talk. | | | | Nick Xenophon resigns from the Senate, names his chief adviser as his replacement in Canberra, and unveils a new name for the party he founded. | | | | Volunteers in Ohio spend an afternoon hunting a deer through thick and hilly woods to rescue it from a plastic Halloween decoration. | | | | In an area which is supposed to be one of the most pristine dive sites in the Caribbean, a massive floating pile of plastic garbage that stretches for kilometres has just appeared. | |  |
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