| | | | A Sydney man who raped, strangled and killed his teenage friend in an attack using a toaster and a rolling pin is sentenced for what the judge called an "unspeakably violent" and savage crime. | | | | Australia's selectors leave themselves open to a number of questions about the make-up of their squad for the first Ashes Test with the inclusion of Shaun Marsh and Tim Paine. | | | | Meryl Streep opens up about two incidents in her life where she encountered physical violence in a speech at the annual press freedom awards ceremony, saying "I do know something about real terror". | | | | Large hailstones pelt parts of the Blue Mountains, as thunderstorms and damaging winds are expected to lash New South Wales. | | | | The same-sex marriage survey was messy, risky and possibly unnecessary, but in the end it was the Prime Minister who got it done, writes political correspondent David Lipson. | | | | The high security unit of Darwin's Don Dale youth detention centre should be shut immediately and the entire centre closed within three months, the royal commission says, after finding "shocking and systemic failures occurred over many years". | | | | Internet sensation Gary the goat dies on tour in regional Queensland, leaving behind his devastated comedian owner who has frozen his sidekick in preparation for a taxidermist. | | | | Government divisions on same-sex marriage are fuelling a new backbench push to hold a banking royal commission, with Nationals senator Barry O'Sullivan declaring the Australian people would support it. | | | | Father-of-four Jeff Beck has undergone several surgeries to remove infected tissue after an insignificant work accident escalated into a crisis. | | | | A Japanese rail company has "deeply apologised" to its passengers for the "severe inconvenience" of a train that left 20 seconds early, prompting people to reflect on poor service elsewhere. | | | | More than 40 years ago, scientists uncovered and removed the ancient skeleton of an Aboriginal man — a discovery that rewrote Australian history. Now, he has been returned home by his descendants. | | | | Despite its dubious ancestry, the popular vote on same-sex marriage has done its job. Australia's First Peoples, however, were again let down by the Parliament this year, writes Michelle Grattan. | | | | A camera captures the family drama in a South Australian osprey nest, when a bigger sibling decides it's had enough of the smaller bird. | | | | The jury fails to reach a verdict in the retrial of former Australian Defence Force Academy cadet Harlan Agresti, who has been accused of raping a colleague who was allegedly too drunk to give consent. | | | | A Ukrainian cybersecurity firm has discovered an unsecured cache of ABC Commercial files, which it says includes two years of database backups, email addresses and hashed passwords. | | | | Twenty countries have joined an international alliance to phase out coal from power generation before 2030. But Australia isn't among them. | | | | The record sale of an artwork by an Australian woman has drawn attention to the gap between male and female artists in the industry. | | | | A smiling President Robert Mugabe is pictured shaking hands with Zimbabwe's military chief a day after the army seized power, throwing confusion over predictions that the 93-year-old's nearly four-decade rule has come to an end. | | | | Assisted dying advocates turn their attention to Victoria after legislation is narrowly defeated in New South Wales Parliament. | | | | A five-day ruff patch ends for cavalier king charles spaniel Remi, with the dog returned to its anxious owner after earlier being snatched from outside a Canberra shopping centre. | | | | What is 42,000 years old, ate grass for her last meal and could be frozen and preserved by bacteria? The answer is Lyuba, a 35-day-old woolly mammoth to which Sydney is now home. | |  |
By political correspondent David Lipson | |  |
By Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra | |  |
By Dean Bilton | |  |
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