| | | | A man is charged with terrorism offences after allegedly trying to get a gun and planning to "shoot as many people as he could" on New Year's Eve in Melbourne's Federation Square. | | | | Even after Meghan Markle marries Prince Harry next year you'd be wrong to call the US actress "Princess Meghan". The reason is very complicated — and thoroughly British. | | | | Olympic swimmer Susie O'Neill is the latest to speak out against under-fire gardening guru Don Burke, saying she was left "flabbergasted" by "crude and belittling" comments he made at her home ahead of the Sydney Olympics. | | | | Women in TV have always talked about this, but now the Old Boys Club is starting to break ranks too. It's not enlightenment: they've simply realised that defending bad behaviour is bad for business, writes Juanita Phillips. | | | | Far removed from the stages and stadiums of his greatest performances, AC/DC guitarist and songwriter Malcolm Young is farewelled with hymns in a house of God, as his brother Angus clutches the rock legend's treasured guitar. | | | | Two children are taken to hospital in a critical condition after a crash in Sydney's west in which nine people are injured and more than a dozen paramedic crews are on the scene. | | | | The last witness to see murdered brothel madam Shirley Finn alive says she offered some final words of reassurance before she was followed into the night by two men holding a long thin package wrapped in brown paper. | | | | Footage of a saltwater crocodile suddenly launching from a creek and attacking a tourist reignites the debate on culling in far north Queensland. | | | | The head of Australia's energy market regulator says the organisation has done everything possible to stave off further blackouts this summer, after it faced a blizzard of criticism last year when power shortages caused mass blackouts in South Australia. | | | | Passing the same-sex marriage bill will "demolish the last significant bastion of legal discrimination against people on the grounds of their sexuality", Attorney-General George Brandis says. | | | | Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson, who is accused of covering up the crimes of a notorious paedophile priest in Newcastle, has his day in court delayed after getting a pacemaker fitted five days before his trial. | | | | Canberra festival Spilt Milk is under fire for stopping punters from bringing tampons, allergy medication, sunscreen and empty water bottles through the festival gates. | | | | A dangerously underweight woman who had lied to family that she had terminal cancer was discharged from an Adelaide hospital days before her death despite undergoing scans showing dozens of pills in her stomach, a coronial inquest is told. | | | | Many think the outcome of this weekend's New England by-election is a forgone conclusion, but is Barnaby Joyce taking it for granted? | | | | Local acts Gang of Youths, Bliss n Eso and returning great Daryl Braithwaite are among the first to hit the ARIAs red carpet at Sydney's Star casino, ahead of hotly anticipated performances by pop superstars Harry Styles and Lorde. | | | | A magistrate says he does not know whether to treat former Hockeyroo Kathryn Hubble as a "long-term liar" or a person being treated for cancer who deserves sympathy as he fines her for producing fake medical certificates. | | | | Tighter checks on older practitioners and those with multiple complaints against them are among safeguards announced by the Medical Board in a major crackdown to stop dangerous doctors harming patients. | | | | These soldiers were ordered to clean up the toxic legacy of America's nuclear program, now they're dying, and their Government has abandoned them. | | | | At 68, June Hope has suddenly found herself homeless. Her husband Tony died from cancer four weeks ago. The next day she was forced to pack up their two-bedroom home on the NSW south coast as she could not afford the $365-a-week rent. | | | | An animal rights group wants a memorial erected at a site in northern New South Wales where a truck carrying 6,000 chickens crashed on Monday. | | | | Bali's Governor says about 150,000 people will leave their homes on the slopes of Mount Agung, while the island's main airport will close for another 24 hours due to ashfall. | |  |
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