| | | | Their mission is to "stop the boats", but the Australian Border Force is experiencing problems dispatching some of its own smaller watercraft, which staff say has hampered the law enforcement agency's operational capacity. | | | | Scouring through the Paradise Papers, it's easy to form the view the super-rich and big multinationals live by a very different set of rules to those of everyday Australians. So what, if anything, can be done about it? | | | | A Westie, a bogan, a battler and a mongrel — Gavin Buckley has overcome questionable insults about his Australian background to be elected Mayor of one of America's oldest cities. | | | | Comedian Louis CK says allegations of sexual misconduct against him "are true" and expresses remorse for his actions, which included performing lewd acts in front of several women and over the phone. | | | | Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau infuriates leaders of 10 other Asia-Pacific countries by pulling a sudden "no show" for the signing of a lucrative trade deal. | | | | Anthony Albanese attacks Greens leader Richard Di Natale over his threat to ask the Governor-General to intervene in the citizenship crisis, saying he never again wants to see reserve powers be abused like in the Whitlam dismissal of 1975. | | | | Sydney councillor Christine Forster says a clash with Manus Island protestors outside a Liberal Party fundraiser that left her "favourite jacket" ripped was "aggressive" and "dangerous for everybody". | | | | The fact cannot be avoided that a quick look at the news right now reveals a grim kaleidoscope of awfulness. Here's an antidote, write Ben Pobjie. | | | | A new survey of Australian's social media use has found 60 per cent of parents never check their children's accounts, but teens are increasingly interacting with strangers online. | | | | The Philippines' controversial war on drugs has killed more Filipinos than the Battle for Marawi. But young people in the country see Rodrigo Duterte as a strong leader with positive policies. | | | | Michael Quatch arrived in Australia as a refugee of the Vietnam War. Now he is one of the most successful growers in the Northern Territory. | | | | One Nation leader Pauline Hanson says she will not disendorse her party's candidate for Thuringowa, Mark Thornton, after jokes about domestic violence were found on the Facebook page of the Townsville sex shop he owns. | | | | When a soon-to-be divorcee complained to her hairdresser that her husband, a millionaire, was to leave her with a meagre sum, a voice piped up and said "I know where you can get a lawyer". | | | | Australian psychiatrist Greg Keane is helping Iraqi survivors traumatised by war, Islamic State horrors, and the daily struggle for food and money. | | | | It has come to this. Even a First Australian, descendant of the oldest living culture on Earth, has faced questions about whether he is eligible under the constitution to sit in the national parliament. | | | | England's first innings of 280 is looking a little better after Australia made 5-177 by stumps on day two of the Women's Ashes Test at North Sydney Oval. | | | | After Lilly Ross' high school sweetheart took his own life, she agreed to donate his face to a man who lived nearly a decade without one. Sixteen months after the transplant surgery, the pair have met. | | | | Taxi app Uber loses a bid to overturn a decision by a tribunal which says its drivers deserve workers' rights such as the minimum wage. | | | | As Texas gunman Devin Kelley methodically shot his terrified victims inside a small country church, his every move was being caught on camera, according to investigators investigating the massacre. | | | | Millions flock to Europe each year, more interested in its World War I and II sites and military past than its rich culture and modern achievements. It's a billon-dollar business, but it has some locals wishing tourists wanted more than the war. | |  |
By Ben Pobjie | |  |
By Christopher Pollard | |  |
By political editor Andrew Probyn and political reporter Anna Henderson | |  |
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