| | | | A Melbourne abattoir has been allowed to continue operating despite being investigated for possible animal cruelty, after secretly recorded footage showed it boiling chickens alive in its slaughter process. | | | | The conservative senator's colleagues are not taking kindly to his approach, with Sarah Hanson-Young responding to one motion about late-term abortions by labelling her political opponents "misogynistic". | | | | Parliamentarians would be wrong to dismiss amendments as the ideological concern of the ultra-right. There is much more going on, writes Mark Fowler. | | | | He's 93. She's 52. And they've both been put under house arrest by Zimbabwe's army. Find out more about Robert Mugabe's wife Grace and how she got into the position she's in. | | | | Australians have voted yes to make same-sex marriage legal. The Prime Minister says it's time to get on with it. So when can we expect to see the first same-sex weddings? | | | | About 2,300 customers, many of whom are from overseas, bought home loans with inaccurate information and may now be offered compensation. | | | | Christopher Pyne's Twitter account 'liked' a pornographic tweet last night, but Australia only found out because of the work of one bot with a mission to track politicians' Twitter use. | | | | Flying through the air at 50 kilometres per hour headfirst towards a field of rocks is not how ABC newsreader Peter Gee ever wanted to test his faith in bike helmets. | | | | About one in six workers in Australia would be deemed ineligible to run for Parliament under the current rules, including teachers, police officers, nurses, doctors, public servants. Here's why it needs to be updated, writes Andrew Probyn. | | | | The 500-year-old oil painting of Christ holding a crystal orb, called Salvator Mundi, was described by Christie's as the "the Holy Grail of old master paintings". It's sold for $591 million, obliterating previous records. | | | | It appears Princes Harry and William's 2016 visit to Pinewood Studios to meet the cast of Star Wars was not just for show, after John Boyega confirms the brothers filmed scenes for The Last Jedi. | | | | There were tears in the chamber when Liberal senator Dean Smith spoke about his same-sex marriage bill today. He told his colleagues he "never believed" his relationship would be judged by the country to be equal. "Australian people have proven me wrong." | | | | The Labor and Liberal parties had agreed to keep a lid on the ineligibility of each other's MPs to sit in the Parliament, says the lawyer who sparked the ongoing citizenship crisis. | | | | The artist finished the mural, which depicts Tony Abbott in a wedding dress with his hand down Cardinal George Pell's pants, on the same day Australians voted in favour of same-sex marriage. | | | | A US man with Hunter syndrome, a rare genetic disorder, becomes the first human patient to trial a gene-editing treatment inside his body. | | | | While Australians nationwide have voted in support of allowing same-sex couples to wed, questions surrounding the freedom of celebrants to refuse to marry gay and lesbian couples have begun. | | | | More than 48 shipwrecks have been illicitly salvaged in South-East Asia — and the figure may be much higher, writes Natali Pearson. | | | | BHP boss Andrew Mackenzie says the company is still worried about energy security in Australia and politicians and lobby groups are not helping. | | | | The family of murdered outback nurse Gayle Woodford expresses relief at the outcome, with her husband now focusing on a law named in her honour to protect remote medics. | | | | The principal of three alternative schools in New South Wales says she will run them illegally if she is forced to close following a scathing report into their compliance. | | | | Australian diplomat Julian Simpson dies after accidentally falling from a 7th floor balcony in New York City while drinking with friends. US media say the 30-year-old was playing a "game of trust" when he fell. | | | | Troubled young people can turn their lives around, according to the teenager who helped alert the world to abuse in the Northern Territory detention system. | |  |
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