| | | | Detective Sergeant John Breda, who was stabbed by an alleged sex offender during a violent confrontation in Sydney's east, is a "dedicated" officer who is passionate about helping abused children, colleagues say. | | | | This Sunday, Roger Federer will ride the wave of adulation from sports lovers and even erstwhile sports ignorers who will be fully entitled to believe they are watching the most accomplished player in tennis history, writes Richard Hinds. | | | | Nicolai Tankin was wrongfully convicted of being a spy at the height of China's chaotic Cultural Revolution. Now his daughter, who lives in Australia, is facing an uphill battle to clear his name. | | | | What to expect, what to look out for, and who might a favourite in this year's Hottest 100 countdown. | | | | The bloodlines of Fairvale's Holstein Friesians have won Leanne and Ross Dodson international awards and the admiration of breeders around the world. But after a lifetime in the dairy industry, they're selling the business. | | | | As Indonesia prepares for provincial elections, a moderate Muslim mayor is refusing to bow to hard-line Islamist clerics who insist he has taken his town down a sinful path. | | | | These six Australians have a second country they also call home. Here's what the ups and downs have taught them about identity, belonging and starting over. | | | | Nine people are taken to hospital after suspected drug overdoses at a dance party at Festival Hall in West Melbourne. | | | | Zalman and Samar Khan made an ill-informed decision to seek asylum by boat that has cost them almost five years of their lives. They're now stuck in legal limbo in Port Moresby, bored, frustrated and without hope. | | | | A whistleblower from Domino's claims he and others were encouraged not to vote for new contracts by management. | | | | A Labor MP says "a complete drop" in the number of citizenship ceremonies could be blamed on the Federal Government's attempt to bring in a more stringent English-language test. | | | | US President Donald Trump says he did not intend to cause offence in Britain by sharing anti-Muslim videos originally posted by a leader of a far-right fringe group. | | | | As Colombia rebuilds after more than 50 years of civil war, farmers are under pressure to stop growing illegal drug crops and instead plant fruits and vegetables. | | | | A state Labor MP who is open to making pill-testing at music festivals legal attends the Rainbow Serpent festival in Victoria to talk to drug users and health workers. | | | | A group of 50 Indonesians who were jailed in Australia for crewing asylum seeker boats launch a bid for "significant" compensation from the Government for wrongful imprisonment. | | | | American spies were so grateful their Dutch counterparts caught a powerful Russian hacking group known as Cozy Bear on tape, they sent them cake and flowers, according to Dutch media reports. | | | | Australian and New Zealand joint forces seize 915 kilograms of heroin, valued in excess of $274 million, in a counter-narcotics operation. | | | | British prosecutors say there is a hypothetical chance Wikileaks founder Julian Assange could soon walk free from the Ecuadorian embassy in London | | | | Australia Day feels angrier. It is as if this day must pit my ancestors, white and black, in some conflict without end, writes Stan Grant. | | | | Travis Head helps guide Australia to a three-wicket win in the fourth ODI against England, after the tourists make a disastrous start with the bat at Adelaide Oval. | | | | A woman who stopped her car on the driveway of a Perth house is run over after she lost control of it while trying to park the car in a garage. | | | | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people marked Friday as Invasion Day, or Survival Day, with tens of thousands of people marching around the country, calling for equal rights and a change of date for Australia Day. | |  |
By Stan Grant | |  |
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