| | | | Same-sex marriage could be legal within the hour, with Federal Parliament inching closer to a final vote. Amendments to increase religious protections are being defeated. Follow live. | | | | The search for a young Australian woman who went missing in a Canadian ski resort town is suspended, after it emerged she texted friends on the night of her disappearance, saying she was lost. | | | | The royal commission into child sexual abuse finds powerful paedophiles like Father Peter Rushton were acting under "weak, ineffectual" leadership in the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle. | | | | Scott Stewart officially wins the north-Queensland seat over the LNP's Casie Scott, extending Labor's lead over the LNP. | | | | Donald Trump says his decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital is "nothing more or less than a recognition of reality". But here's why the issue is more complex. | | | | The largest wind turbine blades ever transported in Australia are delivered in far west New South Wales after a great deal of planning and the construction of a new road. | | | | One man is dead and two others are in hospital with leg injuries after an industrial accident left them trapped inside an ink vat at a manufacturing business in Sydney's west. | | | | There are six women on the cover of Time magazine's Person of the Year issue. Here's a quick rundown on who each of them are, why they're being recognised, and why one of them is represented only by her elbow. | | | | ANZ crunches the numbers and finds that foreign investors own up to 4 per cent of Australian homes, and are currently buying up to 13 per cent of all homes for sale and a quarter of new builds. | | | | Scientists discover Australian snubfin and humpback dolphins in a remote Papua New Guinea river system in a find that is so significant the waterway has been designated an Important Marine Mammal Area. | | | | So the rich are getting richer while the poor are getting poorer, right? Well, it's complicated — or rather, as Peter Whiteford writes, the evidence for trends in inequality is mixed. | | | | A Leonardo da Vinci painting of Christ that sold in New York for a record $591 million is heading to the newly opened Louvre museum in the United Arab Emirates. | | | | With a bill like a duck but teeth like a crocodile, a swanlike neck and killer claws, a new dinosaur species uncovered by scientists looks like something Dr Seuss could have dreamed up. | | | | Schools lose out on potential volunteers because they focus on on the wrong thing, writes Belinda Moore. | | | | Hardcore fans of Al-Hilal Omdurman taunt their fiercest rivals with a giant banner depicting Adolf Hitler's head as well as holding up letters spelling out the word Holocaust. | | | | A chorus of accounts suggest the allegations against Don Burke were an open secret for decades. So why has it taken so long for them to be aired by the media? Could our laws be stopping credible claims coming to the light? | | | | Russian state television leads the charge in attacking the International Olympic Committee's decision to ban Russia from the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Games, which some said was tantamount to genocide. | | | | Researchers in South Africa unveil what they call "by far the most complete skeleton of a human ancestor older than 1.5 million years ever found". | | | | The world was quick to slam Ashes captains Joe Root and then Steve Smith for some of their decisions, writes Geoff Lemon, but closer inspection shows their only sin was leaving themselves open to hindsight. | | | | The former federal MP is told to provide a sworn statement to the Federal Court explaining the tweet, "Hey memesters you vibin' my style??" that came from his account. | | | | A grand sculpture at Wynyard Railway Station attracts praise for its unique design and preservation of Sydney's urban transport heritage. | |  |
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