| | | | Relatives of Argentinian sailors missing after their submarine lost contact in the Atlantic react with shock after the country's navy reveals a huge sound consistent with the vessel being torn apart by water pressure was heard more than a week ago. | | | | Queensland voters are now armed with a new system that reveals political donations in real time. Who's handing out the big cheques? | | | | From racists hurling abuse in the street to other African kids taunting him for attending school, staying out of trouble is a daily manoeuvre for 17-year-old Akang Akang. But he's determined to defy the doubters. | | | | The Chinese Government describes language on the disputed South China Sea in the Australian Government's foreign policy White Paper as "irresponsible", while its state media has labelled Australia a "distant propaganda outpost" agitating against China. | | | | The PM hopes to be basking in celebratory rainbow rays when the Lower House passes the bill to legalise same-sex marriage, but December 7 is looming as a day of constitutional uncertainty, if not calamity, writes Andrew Probyn. | | | | A young man with a profound intellectual disability detained in prison after no disability provider would take him on is granted bail after a Victoria Supreme Court judge says he is "horrified" by the conditions he is being held in. | | | | When Tim Paine walked onto the Gabba after England opted to bat, it was his chance to make his case. It was also his chance for things to go wrong, writes Geoff Lemon. | | | | Four years ago, 25-year-old Sacha Green was found dead in a vacant lot. Now her parents are accusing the Northern Territory Police of carrying out a substandard investigation into her suspicious death because she was Indigenous. | | | | What I've learnt is how I've been blind to it too often. Abusers can be good at cultivating pastors like me, writes Michael Jensen. | | | | Police are investigating if the shooting death of a woman at Sunshine, in Melbourne's west, is linked to a series of car crashes in the area. | | | | Myanmar says it is ready to take back hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled violence for neighbouring Bangladesh, but some refugees are wary of the Government's plans for them. | | | | They're perilously close to homelessness, but many young couch surfers may never reach out for help. A new report says governments need to be more proactive to stop them winding up on the streets. | | | | The Foreign Minister's call for an investigation into Cabinet leaks shows the Federal Government is "eating itself", Bill Shorten says. | | | | Communities in western NSW are pushing against the government's half-billion-dollar pipeline plan to connect the mining town of Broken Hill to the Murray River. | | | | The Olympic Stadium and the Sydney Football Stadium will be demolished and rebuilt in a $2 billion overhaul signed off by NSW Cabinet, despite fierce opposition from members of the Government and other political stakeholders. | | | | It was left to deteriorate above a food court in Central Station and damaged by smoke from a kitchen fire, but now a celebrated mural depicting train travel in NSW has been brought back to life. | | | | Liberal Democrat Senator David Leyonhjelm will host a question and answer session with Milo Yiannopoulos at Parliament House when the controversial alt-right figure tours Australia next month. | | | | Tesla's giant back-up battery is intended to ease SA's blackout risk this summer, with capacity to keep the power on in about 30,000 homes for more than an hour. | | | | Immigration Minister Peter Dutton confirms PNG police arrested some asylum seekers, including Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani (pictured), as they worked to clear the closed immigration detention centre. | | | | Two Queensland paramedics who went out of their way to fulfil the final wish of a palliative patient and take her to the beach one last time say they're humbled by the worldwide attention as a photo of their good deed goes viral. | |  |
By Geoff Lemon in Brisbane | |  |
By Mary Gearin | |  |
By Michael Jensen | |  |
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