| | | | Pressure is building on Labor senator Sam Dastyari to quit the Parliament, including from within the ALP, with frontbenchers calling on him to rethink his political career. | | | | An Indian woman who came to Australia to perform domestic duties for a Melbourne couple was allegedly physically assaulted and was not allowed to leave the home while the family went on holidays, a court is told. | | | | Minutes before same-sex marriage became legal in Australia, a lone voice in the House of Representatives yelled "no!". A few days on, the owner of that voice is now being flooded with thanks from both supporters and opponents across the political spectrum. | | | | The NSW Senate seat vacated by former deputy Nationals leader Fiona Nash remains up in the air after the High Court hears there is an issue, not with possible replacement Jim Molan, but with which Senate spot he should fill. | | | | Heidi Strbak will be sentenced next week after a judge finds she killed her four-year-old son with a fatal blow to the abdomen on the Gold Coast in 2009, and did not seek treatment for the treatable injuries she caused. | | | | It's official, the magpie is the 2017 Australian bird of the year. Here are 10 things you may not know about them. | | | | Pop star Jessica Mauboy will perform at Eurovision for the second time in 2018 but this time as part of the overall competition after appearing as a guest in 2014. | | | | Our "smart trampoline" came with an option to turn it into an into an electronic play pen. But there's a good reason I've kept it secret from our kids, writes Vivienne Pearson. | | | | With Christmas fast approaching, do you know what you'll be buying the children in your life? Here's some tips to make their gift truly worthwhile. | | | | Ghadban lost both his legs when he was hit by a mortar in Iraq. Now he hopes to be able to walk again, and marry his girlfriend, thanks to the genius of a former Australian refugee camp detainee turned world-leading surgeon. | | | | It's believed a US man used a ladder to climb a back wall and escape from Kerobokan prison in Bali. | | | | Many of those "investing" have no idea about the structure of bitcoin, how it works or the technology behind it. They've abandoned all rational thought in the hopes they can get on board what appears to be a sure thing, writes business editor Ian Verrender. | | | | It's been 10 years since rising Australian choreographer Tanja Liedtke died after being hit by a garbage truck. Now, her final dance work is returning to the stage. | | | | Corporate tax data snuck out by the ATO last week showed more than 700 businesses paid not one cent last financial year, but Treasurer Scott Morrison says there are already signs the Government's crackdown on multinationals is working, and insists the laws will see revenues flow into next year. | | | | Dressed in a sports coat and T-shirt, Clive Palmer frustrates liquidators of Queensland Nickel with theories about the Chinese government while giving testimony in the Federal Court. | | | | The use of social media to "pressure" insurers into paying out claims is costing companies millions and driving up premiums, according to the peak-body for the insurance industry. | | | | The rocker says he didn't mean to kick a photographer in the face during a concert, after she shares video of the "obviously very intentional" incident. | | | | A blizzard turns an NFL game into a gridiron war of attrition as spectators strain for a view while players trudge through a feet of snow and celebrate with snowball fights and making snow angels. | | | | The near-fatal poisoning of a NSW Central Coast man who drank a cocktail of highly toxic herbicides left in an unmarked drink bottle sparks fresh calls for a nationwide ban on Paraquat. | | | | The telco admits it is likely to have breached the Australian Consumer Law and will compensate 8,700 NBN customers who got less than they bargained for. | | | | A year after he is photographed shirtless with his fist in the air, staring down a row of riot police in North Carolina, Braxton Winston is elected to run city council. | |  |
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