| | | | A physics professor on the cutting edge of quantum computing is named Australian of the Year, with the other 2018 awardees including a maths teacher from Western Sydney, a biophysicist helping to solve the world's food challenges and a global soccer sensation. | | | | A total of 895 Australians across a wide range of industries have been recognised in this year's Australia Day Honours List for 2018. Here's what some of the recipients had to say. | | | | A friend of Jonathan Crabtree speaks of how his mate's dependency on prescription drugs began to consume his life, eventually resulting in him robbing a Gold Coast pharmacy at knifepoint. | | | | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will mark today as Invasion Day, or Survival Day, as one of the nation's largest Indigenous organisations urges the Government to change the date of Australia Day. | | | | Two decades ago, Simon Hunt — better known as Pauline Pantsdown — penned the mash-up that got the ABC sued. It hasn't been broadcast since. | | | | Half a jawbone and stone tools found in Israel are dated around 180,000 years old, pushing modern human migration out of Africa back 60,000 years. | | | | Many Australians have by now switched over from receiving their energy, phone or insurance bills in their inbox rather than by mail, but for some, receiving a hard copy is their only option. | | | | President Donald Trump threatens to withhold aid to the Palestinians if they do not pursue peace with Israel, saying they "disrespected" the United States by not meeting Vice-President Mike Pence during his recent visit. | | | | Scientists move the symbolic Doomsday Clock ahead by 30 seconds, saying the world is at its closest to annihilation since the height of the Cold War due to world leaders' poor response to threats of nuclear war. | | | | Coral disease frequency jumps from 4 per cent to 89 per cent when coral is in contact with plastic pollution, a study published in Science magazine finds. | | | | Nearly 40 per cent of Australians don't know the reason we celebrate Australia Day on January 26. That's not good enough, writes Jon Feardon. | | | | Debate about the appropriateness of January 26 being Australia Day is ongoing and it is offering up some potential alternative options. | | | | Eucalypts dominate our landscapes from the bush to our backyards, paddocks, parks and pavements. They're so common its easy to look past them, but there's lots to learn about these extraordinary plants. | | | | Marin Cilic has the chance to add a second major to his collection after he advances to the men's Australian Open final with a clinical defeat of Kyle Edmund. | | | | A commuter train derails near Milan, killing at least three people and seriously injuring 13 — the latest in a number of incidents involving Italy's aging rail system. | | | | At least a dozen US federal agencies use software that has been inspected by Russia with some experts warning it places some of the most sensitive areas of the US government at risk of hackers. | | | | Fiji's Electoral Commission removes '666' from ballot papers in this year's general election after consultation with Fiji's registered political parties with one party leader saying it may be problematic for Christian candidates. | | | | So far with the #MeToo movement, we've had much pain for so little progress, so little quantifiable justice or consequence for those men alleged to have done wrong. But this case is a bright exception. | | | | Hidden cameras capture the moment a 69-year-old man allegedly removed a three-metre crocodile carcass from a trap before dragging it from the site with his car. | |  |
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