| | | | The Prime Minister's extensive frontbench reshuffle has seen the science portfolio shunted from Cabinet and assigned to a junior minister, frustrating an already disheartened science community. | | | | Brothers from male-only religious orders outnumber priests in historic child abuse allegations involving the Catholic Church. Despite the forensic efforts of the royal commission, the operations of the most prolific offenders remain shrouded in secrecy. | | | | United Nations members are warned the US "will be taking names" during a vote criticising Washington's decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital. | | | | The mother of a man killed in a Newcastle brawl calls on immigration officials to rethink plans to deport the person jailed for murdering her son. | | | | In sealing the biggest overhaul of the US tax code in 30 years, Republicans steamrolled opposition from Democrats to pass a bill that slashes taxes for corporations and the wealthy while giving mixed, temporary tax relief to middle-class Americans. | | | | Republicans are pitching Donald Trump's tax cuts as a win for families but experts say the rich will get the most benefit. | | | | Frank Constanza's non-commercial Christmas alternative was born, via Seinfeld, 20 years ago this week. People still embrace it. | | | | Nine months after Malcolm Turnbull first announced an ambitious $2 billion expansion of the iconic Snowy Hydro project, he argues it is clearly a viable project. | | | | As Sydney faces the construction of twin tunnels under Sydney Harbour for the Metro line, the story of the "first" Sydney Harbour tunnel built about a century ago remains largely forgotten. But now there are calls for recognition of the remarkable technical and physical feat the tunnel's construction required. Curious Sydney investigates. | | | | NRL player Jarryd Hayne "unequivocally and vehemently denies" rape allegations in a civil suit filed by a Californian woman, according to documents tendered by her lawyers. | | | | Sleeping underground. Being pulled down a mountain by a pack of huskies. Covering yourself in meerkats. These are Australia's not-so-average holidays. | | | | The UN independent investigator into human rights in Myanmar calls for stronger international pressure to be exerted on Myanmar's military commanders after being barred from visiting the country for the rest of her tenure. | | | | The family of a young man who was killed by an elderly driver calls for political courage to restrict older drivers before more lives are lost. | | | | China's embassy issues a public safety warning for Chinese students living in Australia due to "a rising number of insulting incidents". | | | | Britain will have less than two years to ease its way out of the European Union and must obey all the bloc's rules while having no say in its decision making during that period, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator says. | | | | Part of Melbourne's Federation Square, which was completed just 15 years ago, will be torn down and replaced with a flagship Apple store in a move the Government says will bring 2 million more visitors to the site each year. | | | | The former Nationals senator and wife of Queensland's most controversial premier dies in a Kingaroy nursing home surrounded by family, after a short period of illness. | | | | Welcome to Camp Humphreys in South Korea, where US soldiers are actively preparing for a possible future conflict with nuclear-armed North Korea. | |  |
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