| | | | Cabinet's expenditure review committee considered banning anyone under 30 from accessing income support in a radical proposal ahead of the 2014 budget, according to documents obtained by the ABC. | | | | What we will remember most about the Australian Open men's final match is not Roger Federer's routine brilliance, but his rare brush with human frailty, writes Richard Hinds. | | | | About the best that can be said of Trans-Pacific Partnership Lite, is that, at first glance, it won't be as harmful as the original, writes Ian Verrender. | | | | Big nations might be struggling to avoid a two-degree temperature rise, but the Arctic island of Greenland is welcoming it. | | | | In a David and Goliath fight, Barry Bedwell challenged an eviction notice ordering him out of his home of 14 years. But most of the residents of Wantirna Caravan Park have already left and the site is full of rubble or half-demolished homes. | | | | South Africa's police and military will help secure water collection sites in drought-stricken Cape Town if authorities must turn off most taps on Day Zero, a date projected to fall in the first half of April, according to the city. | | | | Thousands of homes are left without power across Victoria as the state swelters and the temperature in Melbourne only dips below 30C in the early hours of the morning. | | | | Ingvar Kamprad, the billionaire Ikea founder who turned a small-scale mail-order business into a global furniture empire, dies at the age of 91. | | | | From Thursday, you'll have to see a GP to get a script if you want painkillers containing codeine. But those who use the opiate should be aware of other options available to manage their pain. | | | | One of Japan's largest digital currency exchanges says it is going to repay hundreds of millions of dollars worth of virtual money after hackers broke into its network. | | | | Tom Curran takes five wickets as England strikes late to beat Australia by 12 runs to win the fifth and final ODI in Perth and take the series 4-1. | | | | Hundreds of supporters of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny begin a nationwide day of protest against the authorities, calling on voters to boycott what they say will be a rigged presidential election. | | | | Less than a year after Australia's peak Olympic body commissioned a review into its culture — amid allegations of a toxic bullying environment — fresh claims have been made by Sliding Sports Australia that it was "bullied" and "threatened". | | | | Israeli leaders angrily criticise pending legislation that would outlaw blaming Poles for the crimes of the Holocaust, with some accusing the Polish Government of outright denial. | | | | A fishing boat has picked up seven survivors, including an unconscious baby, from a ferry which sank off the Pacific island nation of Kiribati. | | | | The overflowing river Seine turns Paris footpaths into waterways, with swans swimming where there are usually pavements and the city's famous tourist boats shut down. | |  |
By Offsiders columnist Richard Hinds | |  |
By business editor Ian Verrender | |  |
By state political reporter Richard Willingham | |  |
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