| | | | The rail union urges Sydney businesses to give employees Monday off, as train workers confirm they will strike for 24 hours after a text-message vote the Transport Minister has described as not "legitimate". | | | | Gold Coast woman Maree Crabtree is accused of the murder of her daughter in 2012, her son five years later, and the torture and assault of another daughter. It is believed the victims had disabilities. | | | | The killer of prominent Vietnamese lawyer Ho Le Dinh is still on the run as CCTV footage emerges of him walking through the Bankstown shopping district just before the brazen targeted shooting. | | | | The eldest of 13 siblings tortured and shackled by their parents in their California home was also bullied at school for being "frail" and "smelly", classmates say. | | | | It beggars belief that a government won't consider a sugar tax despite the evidence and popular support. But take a closer look and the reason becomes clear, writes Emma Alberici. | | | | Tennys Sandgren's Australian Open campaign ends at the hands of Hyeon Chung, while Serena Williams takes to Twitter to voice her disapproval of the controversial American. | | | | Australia might like to consider itself a classless society. But new methods of social modelling tell a far more complicated story. | | | | Eighty years ago, my grandfather donned a black suit as a sign of mourning and in the hot summer heat, marched in silence through the streets of Sydney. We're still marching, writes Ngarra Murray. | | | | The troubled TPP looks to have returned from the dead. You'd be excused for not recalling what the trade deal is all about. | | | | It wouldn't be a proper list of Oscars nominations without a few unexpected and controversial nods. Here's who missed out this year, and who will have an extra spring in their step. | | | | Hollywood exhaled as some of this year's Oscar nominations made history for the right reasons. But that's just the start: who wins speaks volumes of the world we live in, writes Ella Donald. | | | | The assault of a 17-year-old girl at a central Victorian fire brigade last year was "not an isolated event", but an example of cultural problems at the station, the CFA finds. | | | | A Sydney magistrate refuses to grant the former Auburn deputy mayor bail the day after he was charged over a car crash he allegedly staged to avoid appearing in court, saying the case "strikes at the very core of the justice system". | | | | The dual citizenship fiasco takes another twist, with the High Court deciding it needs to formally consider whether a spat between members of the Nick Xenophon Team affects the make up of the Senate. | | | | A magnitude-4.2 earthquake is recorded off the coast of Coffs Harbour following a series of tremors along the NSW Mid North Coast since Friday. | | | | As apartments spring up beside entertainment venues in inner-city Perth, authorities grapple with balancing residents' demands for quiet and the rights of pre-existing businesses. | | | | Teen adventurer Jade Hameister explains why she made a sub-zero sandwich for her detractors during a record-breaking trek to the South Pole. | | | | World number one Rafael Nadal savages tennis tour organisers over the schedule after retiring injured in the fifth set of his quarter-final clash with Marin Cilic on Rod Laver Arena. | | | | A powerful eruption from the Philippines' most active volcano sends 56,000 villagers fleeing to evacuation centres. | | | | After paying just $1 to take over the mothballed Blair Athol coal mine, the TerraCom company, which has former Labor politicians on its board, is paid almost $5 million in "surplus" environmental funding by the Queensland Government. | | | | Fresh from interviewing US Attorney-General Jeff Sessions, investigators probing potential collusion between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 campaign now reportedly have their sights on the President. | | | | The Federal Government steps up its efforts to improve the abysmally low survival rates for rare cancers, tipping in $26 million to fund 19 clinical trials. | | | | Our usual approach to resolutions focuses on what we lack, but we could enhance our lives more if we focused on what we need to let go of, writes Sophie Scott. | |  |
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