| | | | Historic voluntary assisted dying laws pass Victoria's Upper House after a 28-hour marathon sitting, leaving the state on the brink of becoming the first in the country to legalise assisted dying for the terminally ill. | | | | Olivia Mead, the daughter of late WA billionaire Michael Wright, has her court-ordered inheritance slashed by almost $20 million on appeal. | | | | Ange Postecoglou actually did it — he quit the Socceroos gig on the eve of the World Cup. What would motivate a man to exit stage left right before the big show? | | | | South Australian Skye Kakoschke-Moore will resign from the Senate after revealing she was "extremely surprised" to learn she obtained British citizenship through her mother despite previous advice to the contrary. | | | | Blackfriars Priory School says a "potentially suggestive" statue of a saint handing a bread loaf to a child will be redesigned, but adds the initial design looked good on paper. | | | | Labor is demanding answers from the Prime Minister after Barnaby Joyce initially accepted a $40,000 donation from billionaire mining and cattle baron Gina Rinehart. | | | | Dramatic video shows a North Korean defector's desperate dash for freedom, where he is shot at least five times. He has just regained consciousness in a South Korean hospital. | | | | David Cassidy, the former teenage heart-throb of 1970s TV show The Partridge Family, dies aged 67. | | | | While Zimbabwe is overcome with euphoria at the end of the Mugabe era, that is tempered with caution. To break the country's poverty spiral, the new leadership need to put aside self-interest and look to the future, writes Andrew Geoghegan. | | | | A coronial inquest hears explosive claims that police chief Don Hancock shot and killed brothel madam Shirley Finn, whose body was found riddled with bullets at Royal Perth Golf Course in 1975. | | | | Australian workers are donating an estimated $130 billion a year to their employers through unpaid overtime, according to a leading workplace thinktank. | | | | Brisbane Cricket Ground was dubbed the 'Gabbatoir' as Australia smashed visiting teams over two decades. Will Gabba once again forecast our Ashes performance, asks Catherine McGregor? | | | | Protesters spend hours hiding in wait to disrupt a speech by the LNP leader Tim Nicholls, while the Premier says she's been too busy to talk to rebel Labor MP Jo-Ann Miller about her effusive encounter with Pauline Hanson. | | | | A US aircraft searching for a missing Argentine submarine with 44 crew members spots white flares, but it is unlikely they were from the sub lost for six days in the South Atlantic. | | | | Donald Trump wasn't happy when net neutrality was enshrined in law. Now it looks likely to be repealed, what does it mean for the future of the internet? | | | | Travis Kennell becomes the first Angurugu local in generations to complete year 12 on the remote NT island of Groote Eylandt. | | | | Businesswoman Sarina Russo testifies at the Brisbane trial of a man accused of murdering her longtime friend Maureen Boyce and her evidence prompts Justice Peter Flanagan to issue a warning to both her and the jury. | | | | A female first mate in the Gulf of Carpentaria's northern prawn fleet is proving women have what it takes to thrive in the male-dominated industry. | | | | Two people downloaded the data of 57 million Uber users and the company paid them more than $100,000 to delete it. Now the CEO says the company did not disclose the breach. | | | | The former Liberal minister once referred to as father of the House will head a group reviewing protections for religious freedom as the same-sex marriage debate within the Coalition continues. | | | | An analysis of elite athletes shows more southpaws in high time-pressure sports. | | | | Russia admits it recorded "extremely high contamination" of ruthenium-106 in a cloud over the Ural Mountains but insists it poses no health risks. | |  |
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