| | | | Former prime minister Kevin Rudd, his deputy Julia Gillard and two senior Labor ministers were warned about "critical risks" of the home insulation scheme before the deaths of four young installers, a cabinet report obtained by the ABC has revealed. | | | | Russian President Vladimir Putin says the Trump administration made a "hostile step" when it published a list of Russian businessmen and politicians as part of a sanctions law against Moscow. | | | | Assuming you have the means to pay for private schooling, or to move to an area with a good public school, how do you decide? | | | | Many people who suffer a major spinal injury are told they will never walk again. But an Australian study has found that nearly half of all people with major spinal cord injuries have surviving nerve connections from their limbs to their brains. | | | | Australians have ringside seats to a very stunning lunar eclipse tonight, in a combination of events we haven't seen in decades. | | | | The removal of children from Indigenous communities is skyrocketing and has become a "national disaster", according to a Australia's first and only Aboriginal children's commissioner. | | | | Eating well, at home, work and school, can take less effort and be more beneficial than you think, writes Carolyn Treweek. | | | | Transport Minister Andrew Constance will rename Ferry McFerryface after popular children's author and illustrator May Gibbs amid questions over the name's popularity in a public poll. | | | | Despite a Federal Government ban on excessive retail surcharges, some small businesses are still being called out for overcharging customers paying for goods by card. | | | | A new study finds if all Australians use sunscreen regularly, the incidence of melanoma could be reduced by 34 per cent by 2031, which is more than 28,000 fewer people being diagnosed with melanoma. | | | | Australian figure skater Kailani Craine says she is living her dream ahead of making her Winter Olympics debut. | | | | The resort's director insists ongoing rises in annual fees for Moreton Island property owners are "in line with increases across the property market", despite some residents saying their houses and apartments on the island could send them bankrupt. | | | | Ron Walker, hailed as a man who "loved Melbourne and Victoria" and who brought the Australian Grand Prix Corporation to the city, has died at the age of 78. He was also a former mayor, successful businessman and a prominent member of the Liberal Party. | | | | Mike Pompeo says he has "every expectation" Russia will target US midterm elections later this year and says North Korea may have the ability to strike the United States with nuclear missiles "in a handful of months". | | | | An Israeli principal wanted on child sexual abuse charges in Australia once again successfully claims mental incompetence to Israeli authorities and will evade extradition hearings for another six months. | | | | The US and China's geopolitical rivalry in Asia will likely end in war, some experts warn, although Beijing maintains its intentions are peaceful. But history hangs heavily over the entire China story, writes Stan Grant. | | | | An eight-month-old baby girl is in critical condition after she was allegedly raped by her cousin in the Indian capital of Delhi, police say. | | | | When American teenager Dustin Snyder was told his cancer had returned and he had only weeks to live, he proposed to his high school sweetheart. | | | | Davis Cup captain Lleyton Hewitt hits out at Bernard Tomic — who is currently starring on reality TV — saying the controversial Australian is "highly doubtful" to play for the national team again. | | | | A man tows a flaming tyre-less trailer down the Bruce Highway for 20 kilometres, leaving a trail of burning debris that set spot fires in nearby bushland. | | | | Police are investigating after vision emerged of a huge truck pushing a car with a driver in it along a busy stretch of Princes Highway in inner Sydney. | |  |
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