| | | | Julie Bishop has claimed tens of thousands in family travel entitlements for her boyfriend, yet appears to be arguing that he is not her spouse. | | | | Raban Alou, who supplied the gun used to shoot police accountant Curtis Cheng dead in 2015, gives an Islamic State salute and shouts "this is only the beginning" as he is sentenced to 44 years in jail. | | | | Malcolm Turnbull says she was "bullied and provoked" into making extraordinary remarks about the Opposition Leader's staff yesterday as the Jobs Minister makes a comical return to a committee hearing, being shielded from the media by security guards with a whiteboard. | | | | Hope Hicks, one of US President Donald Trump's longest-serving aides, is resigning from her job as White House communications director, according to spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders. | | | | After losing their baby to a genetic condition, Rachael and Jonny Casella were determined to prevent heartache for other couples. The Health Minister was listening and has vowed to make "Mackenzie's mission" his life's work and increase access to couples for pre-pregnancy screening. | | | | The "hermit kingdom" North Korea might keep its people sealed off from the rest of the world, but the Kim regime is open for business and apparently doing deals with — among others — Syria, Pakistan and Myanmar, writes Stan Grant. | | | | If you're in the market for a second-hand car, you might be wondering how the Takata airbag recall is going to affect you. Here's what you need to know. | | | | Adrian Hastwell-Batten was driving through rain-drenched Sharon, just outside Bundaberg, when he came face-to-face with a flooded road and failed to stop before his car ploughed into the rising waters and floated away. | | | | Hobart continues to be the strongest housing market, but it won't stay that way for long. Meanwhile Sydney's "managed slowdown" won't give much hope for first home buyers. | | | | The Government says it supports all 227 recommendations of the Royal Commission into Youth Detention and Child Protection, but almost half are "in principle" rather than fully supported, and no funding has been announced to back the broad changes. | | | | Thousands of automatic rifles, handguns and even a rocket launcher are among the weapons handed in during last year's National Firearms Amnesty. | | | | Victoria's Agriculture Minister refuses to rule out shutting down the Game Management Authority following a damning leaked report. | | | | In a freewheeling, hour-long gun policy discussion, Donald Trump defies the National Rifle Association, speaking approvingly of expanding background checks for gun buyers and raising the legal age to buy rifles to 21. | | | | Nestle has bowed to pressure from public health advocates and is removing the Health Star Rating from Milo. | | | | Astronomers detect a tiny signal from the birth of the earliest stars in our universe using a very simple radio antenna in the West Australian outback. | | | | Royal bride-to-be Meghan Markle is copping so much racist hate online that even seasoned reporters in the UK are shocked. And the fear is that the abuse will only get worse in the run-up to May's Royal wedding. | | | | Salim Mehajer receives three-year good behaviour bond and is ordered to undergo anger management counselling after pleading guilty to assaulting a taxi driver outside Sydney's Star Casino. | | | | Former employees of the largest flower supplier in the southern hemisphere say they were bullied, harassed and verbally abused under "sweatshop" conditions for years while working at the company's Australian warehouses. | | | | Brandishing their rifles, hundreds of US worshippers pack a Unification church to celebrate their weapons as "rods of iron" that could have saved lives in the recent Florida school shooting. | | | | South Australia Police arrest Domenic Perre following a review into the 1994 National Crime Authority bombing in Adelaide. | | | | An Australian barbecue team has only just missed out on a championship title but are the first team from outside the US to finish in the top 10. | | | | Were you sold the dream of 100Mpbs, only to have your browser grind to a halt at night? Those issues could soon be a thing of the past. | | | | A swimming world record has been broken at the Commonwealth Games trials on the Gold Coast — by a 99-year-old Australian man. | |  |
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