| | | | Parts of Melbourne are experiencing flash flooding as an intense band of rain moves over the city, while the main focus of concern shifts to north-eastern Victoria as heavy thunderstorms approach. | | | | Victorians are at the beginning of what the weather bureau is describing as an "unprecedented" deluge, which is expected to dump up to 300 millimetres of rain across the state over the next three days. Follow updates in our live blog. | | | | Australia is at growing risk of a home price crash because of the high number of mum and dad investors, inflated prices, record household debt and an economy that appears to be losing momentum, a new report says. | | | | NSW Deputy Premier and senior Coalition MP John Barilaro says Malcolm Turnbull is "out of touch" and the Prime Minister should resign before Christmas because his Government is in "disarray". | | | | A psychiatrist says she is "astounded" a pharmacy sold $500 worth of laxatives a week to woman who claimed they were treatment for a cancer she did not have. | | | | It must be bitter irony for Malcolm Turnbull that some Nationals took advantage of Barnaby Joyce's absence from Parliament to help secure the numbers for a banking royal commission, writes David Lipson. | | | | Argentina gives up on rescuing 44 crew members on a submarine that disappeared last month, but will continue the search for the vessel. | | | | A former Perth high school teacher is sentenced to less than three years behind bars for taking indecent photographs of female students, some less than 13 years old, to add to a vast collection of child pornography found on his computer. | | | | Eileen Kramer learnt the twist from Louis Armstrong in Paris, and moved back to Australia at 99 because she dreamed of hearing kookaburras again — and she is still dancing at 103 years old. | | | | At least it wasn't Shunty McShunt Face (but that was one suggestion). The winner was picked unanimously and despite its playful rhyme, it does have a serious connotation for the Burnie community. | | | | Bitcoin has — briefly — passed the $US11,000 mark, but analysts are sceptical of the digital currency's meteoric rise. Here's why some are predicting a crash, and what that would mean. | | | | A 50-year-old Canberra woman will spend at least five months behind bars after she was discovered rerouting more than $160,000 meant for her employer's supplier into her own account. | | | | Customers of Telstra's budget mobile and internet provider, Belong, are expressing their anger with the telco after realising their bank accounts had been debited multiple times overnight and are now facing hour-long wait times to resolve the issue. | | | | Holocaust survivor groups ask Poland to explain a video showing naked men and women running around in what is believed to be a Nazi gas chamber. | | | | The World Cup draw is on tonight, and if you're wondering why people get so excited about the ceremonial yanking of ping pong balls out of fish bowls, read on. | | | | The world's biggest lithium ion battery is officially launched in South Australia, with the Premier declaring it an example of SA "leading the world", even as, in a strange twist, some 250,000 lightning strikes leave nearby residents without electricity. | | | | A Tasmanian judge wants the state's family violence unit to be kept up to date about a 19-year-old man jailed for torturing two of his girlfriends. | | | | With so much to choose from in the modern age, we've become paralysed by indecision and haunted by the lives we are unable to live. But there's a way to free ourselves from the fear of missing out, writes Simon Smart. | | | | Australia's Tyler Wright has a second world title to her name, after finishing ahead of all other world title hopefuls at the final World Surf League event at Honolua Bay on the Hawaiian island of Maui. | | | | Labor secures the 47 seats it needs to govern Queensland with a majority, according to the ABC's election computer, but it could still be next week before an official state election result is declared. | | | | Emperor Akihito's planned abdication — the first by a Japanese monarch in two centuries — will take place on April 30, 2019. | | | | More than 1,700 years ago a builder in Jerusalem took his mortar trowel and installed a slab over what was believed to be the tomb of Jesus. Now scientists say analysis of that mortar backs up contemporary accounts of how the tomb was discovered. | |  |
By political correspondent David Lipson | |  |
By Jon Healy | |  |
By Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra | |  |
By Luke Pearson for It's Not A Race | | | | | | | The ABC sent this message to starnewsposting@gmail.com these details are included to help provide assurance that this is a genuine email from ABC.
Any personal details and data acquired by the ABC from your participation in any ABC Online Services will be used only in accordance with the ABC's Privacy Policy.
This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. | | | | | |
