| | | | Dimitrios Jimmy Gountounas and Leo Yan Lai Cheung allegedly had a plan to leave a drug importing business they'd been working for to start a multi-million-dollar business of their own. | | | | Annastacia Palaszczuk says the Queensland Government will have "no role" in assessing a loan to Adani for its Carmichael coal mine, basing her decision on alleged attempts to expose her partner's links to the Indian conglomerate during an election campaign. | | | | Does the Australian Catholic Church have the courage to answer the Pope's call to root out the "shameful ill-treatment" of women? And is its all-male hierarchy, still reeling from revelations of child sexual abuse, capable of leading the charge? | | | | For decades, Mike Willesee was the voice of current affairs, and one of television's most recognisable personalities. Now, as he battles throat cancer and struggles with the loss of his voice, he opens up to Australian Story. | | | | Australia's newest online bookmaker, Neds, will stop running one of its ads on free-to-air TV ahead of the Melbourne Cup after the commercial was found to breach advertising codes by encouraging excessive gambling. | | | | The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says the Federal Government should "immediately provide protection, food, water and other basic services" to 600 men who remain inside the immigration processing centre days after it closed. | | | | A German man calls police after discovering what he thought was an unexploded World War II bomb in his garden — but when officers rush over, they find a particularly large zucchini. | | | | The Northern Territory Government is accused of wasting millions of dollars each year keeping children in emergency protection placements, which cost up to five times more than foster and kinship care. | | | | A visibly emotional Malcolm Turnbull defends Josh Frydenberg after questions were raised over whether the Energy Minister had inherited Hungarian citizenship from his Jewish mother, who was rendered stateless at the end of WWII. | | | | A North Queensland fish species iconic among aquarium collectors has been saved from extinction by a Canberra research team, a bit of luck, and some cash. | | | | The ancient craft of hedge laying is revived in parts of southern Australia, with people cutting, bending and chainsawing the thorny plants into shape in an effort to restore some of the nation's first farming fences. | | | | There was a real buzz about Sydney's CBD on Friday afternoon as a huge swarm of bees sent people ducking for cover as they made themselves at home on one of the city's busiest streets. | | | | One year into his presidency, Donald Trump is embarking on his first Asian tour. With North Korea and trade issues at the top of the agenda, all eyes will be on the US President's remarks and his notedly unfiltered Twitter feed, the ABC's correspondents write. | | | | Australia's unbeaten start to the Rugby League World Cup continues with a largely comfortable 52-6 win over France, with Wade Graham crossing for four tries. | | | | When Alison Campbell's local orchestra needed a hand, she was proved herself a friend indeed. | | | | This man just travelled 12,000 kilometres to be among the first in the world to buy a new $1,500 iPhone. Then he pulled out his tools and began taking it to bits. | | | | Donald Trump tweets his response to the 11-minute suspension of his account by a "rogue employee" of the social media company before using Twitter to again attack political rivals. | | | | An American woman faces a year in jail for a tweet that was considered by Zimbabwean police to be a veiled reference to the country's ageing president, just weeks after a controversial Ministry of Cyber Security was established. | | | | The foster mother of Tiahleigh Palmer orchestrated the cover-up of the Logan schoolgirl's death, lying to authorities because she did not want to lose her "family and lifestyle", a Queensland court hears. | | | | WA's Supreme Court releases chilling evidence used to convict two women of the callous murder of Perth teenager Aaron Pajich — including pictures of the house where he was lured, killed and buried. | |  |
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