| | | | One Nation is looking increasingly unlikely to field a candidate in the battle for the northern NSW seat of New England, and will instead turn its focus to the Queensland election campaign. | | | | Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is expected to call an election today, with the state set to go to the polls on November 25. It comes after she moved to disendorse a controversial MP from the ALP. | | | | Oxfam wants Australia's big fashion brands to pay overseas factory workers enough to live on, with a new report estimating if companies passed the entire cost of living wages to workers, the price of clothing in Australia would only increase 1 per cent. | | | | It wasn't comfortable, but Winx does enough in the final sprint to take home an incredible third consecutive Cox Plate title, and 22nd win on the trot. | | | | Success is hit-and-miss for anti-slavery activists in Russia, who are up against rigid laws, local corruption, and a regional pride that fails to acknowledge the problem. | | | | Allegations of Harvey Weinstein's systemic sexual harassment have raised important questions about the kind of masculinity we should celebrate, writes Darren Saunders. But what does it mean to be a good man? | | | | A witness describes the "catastrophic" and "frightening" moment a light plane crashes on the New South Wales mid-north coast, killing a man and a woman. | | | | Two women who spent five months adrift at sea during a failed voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti open up about their ordeal, saying they are "just incredibly lucky" to be alive. | | | | Sorry dual citizens, you're still not allowed to serve in Australia's Parliament with the High Court sticking by Section 44(i) of the constitution. But there may be a glimmer of hope. Here's why. | | | | Catalonia's ousted separatist leader calls on Catalans to peacefully oppose Spain's formal takeover of the region, in a veiled refusal to accept his Cabinet's dismissal. | | | | Britain's Royal Navy fires nine sailors who tested positive for cocaine while they were assigned to a submarine that operates the Trident nuclear missile system. | | | | US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis says America will "never accept North Korea as a nuclear power", as he warns the rogue state is posing an increasing threat to Seoul and the world through its "illegal and unnecessary" missile program. | | | | Retired Adelaide doctor Rosemary Stuart-Kregor remembers the time she "kidnapped" her stepson and two others from the Moonies cult in the United States in the 1970s. | | | | Melbourne City remains at the top of the A-League ladder with a commanding 2-0 win over Adelaide United, following the Roar's tremendous fight back from 3-0 down to hold the Phoenix in a 3-3 draw. | | | | A federal grand jury in Washington approves the first charges in the investigation into alleged Russian meddling in last year's presidential election, US media reports, but the details are still under wraps. | | | | An Israeli judoka who won gold at an international competition in Abu Dhabi quietly sings his national anthem during the medal ceremony, after organisers warned they would not play the music or raise his country's flag. | | | | Former US president Barack Obama will be serving his country again — this time, by carrying out jury duty. | |  |
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