| | | | Bill Shorten accuses Malcolm Turnbull of running scared from Parliament, after the PM pulled the pin on next week's House of Representatives sittings to give the Senate more time to talk about same-sex marriage. | | | | It is often called the "best loan you'll ever get". So should graduates try and pay down their student loans as quickly as possible? | | | | A 137-year-old photo said to show Billy the Kid with his killer is probably real, experts say, and could be worth millions of dollars after being bought at a flea market for $US10 a few years ago. | | | | Many of us wonder how we ever lived without Facebook — and how we might escape. If Facebook has become one network to rule them all, then the future looks like a splintered, fractured mess, writes Seamus Byrne | | | | Outspoken Labor backbencher Jo-Ann Miller exchanges baby booties and a hug with One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson, creating an unwelcome distraction for the Premier just four days out from the state election. | | | | A recent report suggested drinking coffee every day could reduce heart attack risk. Is this more good news for coffee lovers or a case of be careful what you read? | | | | Magistrate William John Randall lived a double life for years, passing daily judgment on others for criminal behaviour while systematically sexually abusing a young boy. | | | | A law firm wants to take on one of Australia's top sunscreen sellers after dozens of complaints from customers who claim they were burned despite wearing Banana Boat SPF 50+ sunscreens. | | | | Papua New Guinea signs a series of infrastructure deals with China as part of Beijing's One Belt, One Road initiative, as Labor warns that fears of being an "overbearing colonial power" in the Pacific are giving other countries the front foot. | | | | Police charge a 16-year-old boy with graffiti after a controversial mural in Newtown was defaced with homophobic messages and crucifixes in yellow paint. | | | | How much a child moves, sleeps and watches a screen are the focus of new guidelines. At home or in child care, this is how children should spend 24 hours. | | | | The son of Maureen Boyce, who was found dead in her apartment with a knife lodged in her stomach, tells the Supreme Court his mother wanted lover, and now murder-accused, Thomas Lang to go back to New Zealand because he was lazy and drank too much. | | | | Airbnb hosts are railing against a proposal from Victoria's Mornington Peninsula Shire Council to ban tourists from hanging out on outdoor decking, balconies and pools after 10:00pm. | | | | Almost 60 per cent of cyclists believe they should be able to ride without a helmet if they want to, according to a new survey, but a crash survivor says he would be dead if he was not wearing one when he came off. | | | | Coles begins rolling out an initiative to prevent sensory overload in its stores today to support customers who are on the autism spectrum, after a successful trial of the program in August. | | | | The Doncaster Council's latest naming poll sees two new gritting vehicles named Gritsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Anti-Slip Machiney and David Plowie. But is it a case of another public naming poll gone wrong? | | | | The home of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics has imploded in just 15 seconds. But thanks to this coach, viewers of a live stream missed it. | | | | Victoria's anti-corruption watchdog confirms it is investigating allegations detectives tampered with a key piece of evidence that led to the conviction of Jason Roberts, who was jailed for the murders of two police officers. | | | | Teams scouring the South Atlantic for a missing Argentinian submarine say sonar "noise" detected in the ocean did not come from the vessel, which has only one day's worth of oxygen left. The San Juan reported an electrical problem just before it disappeared last week. | | | | Neither Australia nor England will commence this Ashes series as they had hoped or expected, writes Gerard Whateley, but these imperfections could be the catalyst for an engrossing summer. | | | | A high school student takes on a former politician and Christian broadcaster on Q&A, arguing that calls for religious protections in same-sex marriage legislation are "unjustified" because it is "legally and morally wrong" to discriminate against the LGBTIQ community. | | | | So, if everyone is talking about North Korea's nuclear program, why is Donald Trump putting the rogue nation on a list of states that sponsor international terrorism? | | | | On the streets of Calais, you can sense the fear. Locals resent the influx of migrants, drivers are scared of the hooded teens chasing their moving trucks, and children like Mahmoud are scared of everyone they've met on their lonely path to safety. | |  |
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