| | | | Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has not updated his parliamentary register to declare his former media adviser is his partner, despite the fact they live together and are expecting a baby. | | | | Queensland's electoral commissioner Walter van der Merwe is suspended immediately by the state's Attorney-General over allegations she says could amount to misbehaviour under the electoral act. | | | | Patrick Pritzwald-Stegmann was killed in a one-punch attack after an argument about smoking outside the Box Hill Hospital in Melbourne's east, a court hears. | | | | At least 20 domestic workers have escaped exploitation in diplomatic residences, saying they have been made to work up to 18-hour days for a fraction of the minimum wage and being forbidden from leaving the premises, an ABC investigation finds. | | | | A bushfire in remote scrub that started four days ago has burnt through an area larger than some countries — but it seems not that many people have actually noticed. | | | | Sports star turned motivational speaker Joe Williams accuses security personnel at a Sydney department store of racially profiling his children. | | | | Some of Australia's big banks will fail to meet a deadline for the royal commission because of the vast amount of material about possible misconduct that they have to get through, Commissioner Kenneth Hayne says. | | | | The notion of Australia as a bona fide Winter Olympic competitor has not merely informed but overwhelmed the Seven coverage which contains active traces of the kind of hyperbolic jingoism long prevalent at the warm weather Olympics, writes Richard Hinds. | | | | There are calls for the Catholic Church's tax-free status to be reviewed, following an investigation by Fairfax revealing the extent of property, assets and investments owned by the church of Australia. | | | | That Kevin Rudd is critical of Malcolm Turnbull's foreign policy is less interesting than what he has to say about the rise of China — a country he says is challenging the global order, writes Stan Grant. | | | | A 37-year old Russian woman is charged after allegedly glassing a 21-year-old man with an empty wine bottle during an argument on board a P&O cruise ship over a line for the loo. | | | | Windy conditions in Pyeongchang have seen a number of slopestyle athletes crash out of the Winter Games, and injured Australian snowboarder Tess Coady believes the gusts denied her a maiden Olympic appearance. | | | | Australian government websites are among more than 4,000 that have fallen victim to crypto-jacking — when computers are secretly made to mine cryptocurrency. | | | | Disgraced former NSW RSL president Don Rowe is referred to police by the State Government, after an independent inquiry into the organisation hands down its findings. | | | | Thieves are pillaging plants from front yards across the Brisbane region, getting off scot-free despite the best efforts of residents and landscapers. | | | | A Brisbane boy was shocked while taking a shower during a storm that swept through Queensland's south-east. So should you avoid the bathroom during a thunderstorm? | | | | The 18-year-old driver was intoxicated at the time and "may have accidentally accelerated" a car that was being used to play music at a house party in Katherine, police say. | | | | The Prime Minister describes this year's Closing the Gap report as "the most promising result since 2011", despite seeing improvement in only three out of seven targets. | | | | Scientists are studying whether consuming a glass of beetroot juice could improve your capacity to exercise. | | | | One of the architects of the inaugural Rugby World Cup, Wallabies great Sir Nicholas Shehadie, dies in Sydney aged 91. | | | | A state of emergency is declared and authorities warn tens of thousands of people in Tonga to be prepared as a category four cyclone, already with wind gusts of 230kph, heads straight for the country's main island. | | | | Oxfam has been accused of lacking "moral leadership" by the British Government over misconduct involving prostitutes in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. | | | | More "gusty storms" are likely in Brisbane this afternoon with temperatures expected to reach 35 degrees Celsius in Brisbane and Logan, after a severe thunderstorm last night left 130,000 south-east homes in darkness. | |  |
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