| | | | The sanctity of the religious confessional would be tossed aside and celibacy would become voluntary under 189 new recommendations delivered by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. | | | | Australia's $50 billion Future Submarines program is hit by allegations of fraud, with a Commonwealth official being investigated for misappropriating funds. | | | | David Warner is caught behind for 22 after a bright but brief response from the Australian Openers following England's dismissal for 403 all out on day two. Follow all the action from the WACA in our live blog. | | | | A small group of protesters who ambushed Malcolm Turnbull's press conference are linked to the Victorian Labor Party, adding to reports of dirty tactics in the Bennelong by-election. | | | | Derek Barrett, who tortured and then murdered his niece Mengmei Leng before dumping her naked body in a blowhole, is sentenced to 46 years in jail, with the judge condemning his crime of "extreme brutality" stemming from a "perverted obsession with the victim". | | | | Police say they are investigating footage of a "distressing" assault on a teenage girl in Bundaberg in southern Queensland. | | | | Perth barrister wins a long-standing defamation case against the State of WA after being named as the "prime" and "only" suspect by police in his wife Corryn Rayney's 2007 murder. | | | | James Gargasoulas, the man accused of running down pedestrians along Bourke Street in Melbourne's CBD and killing six people, pleads not guilty to murder and attempted murder charges. | | | | For the second time this week, Optus is in trouble with the ACCC. This time, the telco is being sued for misleading and pressuring customers to sign up for the NBN sooner than they needed to. | | | | Concerns about shark nets resurface with video footage showing nets snaring rays off the New South Wales north coast. | | | | Singer and actor Paulini Curuenavuli is given a six-month suspended sentence for bribing a government official to unlawfully obtain a driver's licence. | | | | An Indigenous work-for-the-dole scheme variously described as "racist", "flawed" and "nonsensical" is causing people in remote communities to go hungry and driving them further into poverty, a report finds. | | | | The US Federal Communications Commission votes to repeal sweeping 2015 net neutrality rules, in a move that gives internet service providers a free hand to slow or block websites and apps as they see fit, or charge more for faster speeds. | | | | Sometimes an insult can be the greatest compliment of all. Donald Trump's tweets about US senator Kirsten Gillibrand are a neon sign that he sees her as a threat, writes Sara James. | | | | After three years living in the West, Kwon Chol Nam says he felt more free living under Kim Jong-un's regime. He's among a growing number of defectors who want to return home. | | | | Adelaide has seen its fair share of grisly killings over the years, but its reputation as the nation's murder capital comes down to a number of factors. | | | | A Minnesota prosecutor says he doesn't yet have enough evidence to charge a Minneapolis police officer who killed an unarmed Australian woman earlier this year, blaming investigators who "haven't done their job". | | | | A record-tying eighth planet is found by NASA and Google in a faraway solar system, and like Earth, the new planet is the third rock from its sun but can orbit it in just 14 days. | |  |
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