| | | | The former immigration minister agreed his department should intervene in ASIO security checks to try to prevent asylum seekers from being granted permanent protection visas. | | | | FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, criticised by US President Donald Trump for alleged bias against him and in favour of his 2016 Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, steps down as the agency's number two official, sources and reports say. | | | | The senior police officer stabbed by an alleged child sex offender during a violent confrontation in Sydney's east briefly regains consciousness and communicates with his family. | | | | North Korea cancels a joint cultural performance scheduled to be held with the South, blaming the South Korean media for encouraging "insulting" public sentiment regarding the North. | | | | If you decide to take your landlord to a court or tribunal, or end up being called yourself, here are some ways to put your best foot forward. | | | | Emergency evacuation centres are open as a number of bush fires burn in Gidgegannup and near the town of Augusta in WA, with windy conditions hampering firefighting efforts. | | | | Fitness-tracking app Strava's new global heatmap reveals sensitive information about military bases and supply routes in the Middle East and around the world, a potential security flaw first spotted by Australian student Nathan Ruser. | | | | Volkswagen's supervisory board calls for an immediate inquiry into who ordered scientific tests in which monkeys and people were exposed to diesel fumes, while the German Government says such studies are unjustifiable. | | | | The Australian Securities and Investment Commission hires lawyers to check whether a glitch on its website aided white collar crime as a flawed search tool allowed people to access all ASIC documents. | | | | Fifty years ago, protesters took to the streets in Paris, Prague and Chicago, demanding change, but the same themes are echoed in Donald Trump's America today, writes Mark Bannerman. | | | | Changes happening to our climate will almost certainly shake up the way we holiday — but there are opportunities as well as dangers, writes Susanne Becken. | | | | Emergency services have pulled a male diver's body from waters in Sydney's south after he failed to surface from a free-dive late Monday evening. | | | | A parliamentary absence has done little to subdue former senator Jacqui Lambie unique style, as she jokingly claims she is more popular with men than women in Tasmania because women are "bitches". | | | | As psychologists call for more pets to become therapy dogs due its benefits for those with dementia, residents at one Canberra nursing home show how Tiffany the greyhound's visits change their lives. | | | | A survival expert retraces the remarkable survival story of two German pilots who were forced to ditch their seaplane on Western Australia's Kimberley coast in 1932. | | | | Ten foreigners face up to one year in prison after they were among 90 people arrested in Cambodia for producing "pornographic" pictures of a dance party and posting them on social media. | | | | A population boom is predicted for Perth's outer suburbs, but while you gain a big backyard and a shiny new house, what do you give up by moving there? | | | | It's shaping as a bleak 2018 for Indonesia's gay and transgender people, as police carry out raids on transgender hair salons and politicians finalise new legislation which will make gay sex illegal. | | | | American musician Kesha takes the #MeToo cause to the Grammys with a powerful performance of a song many believe was written about the singer's alleged abuser, as Bruno Mars takes out three of the big four awards at the show. | |  |
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By Mark Bannerman | |  |
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