| | | | Overweight and self-conscious 31-year-old Leigh Aiple paid more than $35,000 for a plastic surgery package in Malaysia. The day after he flew back to Melbourne he was dead. | | | | Advocates are attributing an alarming increase in domestic violence in Hindu and Sikh communities to myriad factors, including the influence of ancient texts which relegate women to inferior status, a reluctance by clergy to even raise the subject of family violence, and Australia's failure to outlaw dowry abuse. | | | | Treasurer Scott Morrison will this morning deliver the mid-year budget update and the set of figures he hands down will show a dramatic turnaround in the Government's fortunes, largely thanks to China's massive ongoing stimulus program. | | | | The two men spoke after the Kremlin issued a statement saying the CIA helped crack a plot to launch terrorist attacks at a cathedral and other targets in the city of St Petersburg. | | | | We analysed 150,000 Facebook posts from 11 of the most popular online news outlets. Here's what we found. | | | | The push to see interest-only mortgages transition to principal and interest could see repayments jump by 50 per cent — and that could lead to problems in the wider economy. | | | | In China, gay people are often forced into fake weddings to keep their families happy. But now dozens of them are taking to the high seas to stage mass same-sex marriages on cruise ships in defiance of their country's laws. | | | | In our contemporary world, the idea that sex is pleasurable is rarely questioned: pleasure is a key way of understanding what sex is and what it means. Yet this was not always so. | | | | For some men it's a tricky subject — the idea of not passing on their family name to their child. But a range of other options are on the rise in Australia. | | | | French sailor Francois Gabart shaves more than six days off of the around-the-world solo record, circumnavigating the globe in just 42 days and 16 hours. | | | | Seemingly only rain can stop Australia reclaiming the Ashes in Perth, with the hosts in a position of immense strength having taken four English wickets on day four at the WACA. | | | | Review systems in sport are always controversial but Central Coast Mariners' coach Paul Okon's broadside against the Video Assistant Referee this weekend should not be dismissed out of hand, Richard Hinds writes. | | | | Power prices are expected to fall across Australia over the next two years — offsetting this year's price increase — when variable wind and solar generation come online, the Australian Energy Market Commission says. | | | | Forget wasting energy sweating it out at the gym and instead, try putting your fitness to a real life test — on an organic farm. | | | | The Australian Federal Police charges a 59-year-old Sydney man for allegedly acting as an economic agent for North Korea, accusing him of brokering sales and discussing the supply of weapons of mass destruction. | | | | A lighthouse keeper, who built a rockpool for his ill wife to bathe in, is a beautiful story of true love. But was Captain Patrick Percy really a murderer and a bigamist? | | | | The US Defence Department says until 2012, it ran a hush-hush $22 million program to investigate unidentified flying objects — but backers claim the program remains in existence. | | | | Buoyed by its victory in the Bennelong by-election which has given the Coalition back its 76-vote majority in the Lower House, the Turnbull Government again threatens to refer to the High Court any MPs with a "serious case to answer" over their citizenship. | | | | Catholic parishioners in Ballarat have lined up to cut symbolic ribbons off their cathedral's iron fence in a move described as disrespectful to sexual abuse victims so soon after the royal commission findings. | |  |
Bu Lisa Featherstone, UQ | |  |
By Offsiders columnist Richard Hinds | |  |
By business editor Ian Verrender | |  |
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