| | | | Embattled senator Sam Dastyari tried to pressure Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek not to meet with a prominent Chinese activist on a visit she made to Hong Kong in January 2015, according to a report in Fairfax Media. | | | | Asylum seekers on Manus Island have video evidence of local men — who appear to be drunk — coming to their accommodation and threatening to kill them. | | | | From immigration detainee number 982 to one of Australia's foremost orthopedic surgeons helping Iraqi victims of war — the incredible story of Dr Munjed Al Muderis. | | | | It's going to cost taxpayers at least $10 billion and isn't predicted to turn a profit for about 50 years, but proponents say Australia is in desperate need of an inland railway to ease the number of trucks on our roads and create a more efficient freight system for the next 100 years. | | | | Graphic video emerges of a bull suffering a leg break at an event in Adelaide, prompting the RSPCA to repeat its call to ban rodeos. | | | | The shadow attorney-general says he hopes Josh Frydenberg "can demonstrate" he is not a dual citizen, but a Labor frontbencher says the party is not pursuing the Energy Minister — whose mother survived the Holocaust — on the issue. | | | | The leader of an Australian-born group that won this year's Nobel Peace Prize urges nuclear nations to adopt a United Nations treaty banning atomic weapons in order to prevent "the end of us". | | | | As same-sex couples rushed to registry offices this weekend to file their intention to marry, lawyers in Perth were lodging documents of a different kind, on behalf of a woman set to become the first in Australia to file for a same-sex divorce. | | | | The Bougainville Government is holding a crucial mining warden's hearing at an abandoned copper mine which sparked a decade-long armed insurgency against the Papua New Guinea Government to determine if Bougainville Copper Limited will retain its lease. | | | | The Asian giant's ban on foreign rubbish is reverberating through Australia's waste industry, but local operators see it as a wakeup call which should serve as the trigger to take responsibility for our own waste and transition to a cleaner economy. | | | | The near-fatal poisoning of a NSW Central Coast man who drank a highly toxic herbicide left in an unmarked drink bottle sparks fresh calls for a nationwide ban on Paraquat. | | | | England is on the verge of an Ashes series defeat and its players only need to gaze into the mirror to find out why, writes Richard Hinds. | | | | Defence Minister Marise Payne says Australia will reconsider its military commitment to Iraq following Islamic State's "defeat", with a former Army chief suggesting the RAAF's bombing missions over the country should now end. | | | | Richmond's AFL premiership and Jeff Horn's world title win are among the sporting highlights of 2017, as Grandstand Radio celebrates some of the year's unforgettable moments. | | | | The State Government is celebrating the re-opening of part of Sydney's CBD where light rail has been finished, but the Transport Minister was not interested in hearing from affected retailers who say they feel like "collateral damage". | | | | This week the final bell will ring at a tiny school north of Albury, which has been at the heart of a rural community for nearly 150 years. | | | | A federal appeals court has upheld his murder conviction, saying when he confessed to helping his uncle Steven Avery rape and kill Teresa Halbach in 2005, he did so voluntarily and with his mother's permission. | | | | A Japanese man wielding a sword killed his sister, a Shinto priestess, on the grounds of a Tokyo shrine, then stabbed his wife to death, police and media said. | | | | Egyptian archaeologists discover a linen-wrapped mummified body in one of two previously unexplored tombs, believed to date back as far as 3,500 years ago, in the southern city of Luxor. | |  |
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