| | | | The IOC bans Russia from competing at the Winter Olympics next year in South Korea over what it calls a "systematic manipulation of the anti-doping rules", but says some of the country's athletes may compete as neutrals. | | | | Michael Atkins buried his boyfriend Matthew Leveson's body in the bush, left it to rot for nearly a decade, and lied to the police and the coroner — but he will not go to jail. | | | | Australia's top chief executives earn an average of $4.75 million — see how that compares to the average Australian worker. | | | | England captain Joe Root's determined innings has the tourists in with a shot of an historic win over Australia in the second Ashes Test at Adelaide Oval. | | | | Graham Boyce says love and respect helped him stand by his wife Maureen Boyce despite their difficult marriage, and he hopes her murder will shed more light on the "scourges of domestic violence and mental illness". | | | | Bill Shorten is facing a by-election headache, with the release of MPs' citizenship documents leaving four Labor MPs and a Nick Xenophon Team MP with questions to answer. | | | | The arrival of Amazon in Australia may signal a change in how we navigate industrial relations and workers' rights. | | | | When Nyrie Stringer was injured at work, she says her employer sent her to a company doctor — and insisted her male manager aged in his 60s attend the appointment. According to unions, this growing trend should never happen — but the Chamber of Commerce thinks otherwise. | | | | Nicole Yarran was just 32 and expecting her third child when she was told she had bowel cancer. Now her family hopes her story will persuade others not to overlook the dangers of what was once seen as a disease which only killed older people. | | | | With the "world's largest" lithium-ion battery officially open in South Australia, many are watching on in anticipation to see what impact it has on the state's electricity market, and whether it could be a gamechanger nationally. | | | | Australia's Year 4 students came in at 21 out of 50 countries in the latest Progress in International Reading Study (PIRLS) — up from a ranking of 27 in 2011. | | | | Andrew Wallace struggled to support same-sex marriage as a practising Catholic, but says he changed his views drastically when his daughter revealed she was gay. He shared her story in Parliament today as debate on the bill continues. | | | | A Tasmanian Labor candidate pulls out of the race for the Hobart-based seat of Denison at next year's state election amid allegations of inappropriate behaviour outlined in a Facebook post. | | | | Seven protesters are arrested outside a speaking event held by right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos in Sydney, where high-profile barrister Charles Waterstreet was seen in the front row. | | | | Sumatran tigers are facing an increasing threat of extinction as habitat fragmentation leaves only two viable populations in the wild, a new survey has found. | | | | Donald Trump is set to become the first US President in half a century to scale back land protections for national monuments, slashing the size of two protected sites in Utah. | | | | Former foreign minister Bob Carr says he has been assured that no Chinese investors will help Adani's controversial Carmichael coal mine in remote central Queensland. | | | | What started as a niggling pain in Elanor Hill's calf turned out to be a massive, 64-centimetre blood clot that almost took her life. Now her father wants the contraceptive pill that contributed to the clot banned in Australia. | | | | Efforts to eradicate hunger are stalling within the Asia Pacific, with almost 500 million people in the region lacking access to sufficient food. | | | | Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey could go as far as breaking off diplomatic ties with Israel if the United States formally recognises Jerusalem as Israel's capital. | | | | A Sydney court is told Seqwater dam engineers were preoccupied about the "adverse media effects" and "major embarrassment" of unnecessary water releases just weeks before the 2011 Brisbane and Ipswich flood. | | | | A king tide prompted by a supermoon earlier this week inundates areas around Sydney Harbour, with further record tides and flooding to come. | |  |
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