| | | | A sizeable portion of the National Party wants Barnaby Joyce to resign as leader, and are turning their attention to who should replace him. | | | | The scandal surrounding Barnaby Joyce's personal life has shattered his mystique. Now seen by his Nationals colleagues as a philanderer who cheated on his wife of 24 years, he has lost moral authority, writes political editor Andrew Probyn. | | | | The case of Australian Border Force Commissioner Roman Quaedvlieg — on leave since July amid an external investigation into his personal conduct — has put into sharp focus the standards applied to public officials as opposed to their political masters, writes Andrew Greene. | | | | A Kalgoorlie contractor who walked out of a Goldfields mine with four kilograms of gold last February receives suspended jail term. | | | | Police are expected to charge a man who was arrested boarding a flight to Bali at Sydney International Airport over the alleged shooting murder of a prominent Vietnamese lawyer at a Bankstown cafe last month. | | | | We are not good at telling the story of Indigenous Australia, too often repeating the predictable and enticing tale of deficit and disadvantage. Hundreds of thousands of Indigenous people are living successful lives, and I am one of them, writes Stan Grant. | | | | Reaction to Michelle Obama's portrait has been mixed. Some critics have lavished praised on the painting, while others say it misses the former first lady's 'spirit'. | | | | She's used to hurling herself 4.5m into the air off a halfpipe, but during the Pyeongchang Olympics Chloe Kim has found herself — in a much less controlled manner — catapulted to the giddy heights of international stardom. | | | | Three Milwaukee County prison guards face criminal charges over the death of Terrill Thomas, who was left without water for a week as punishment for flooding his cell. | | | | Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi reveals the emotional toll of a "tumultuous" expenses scandal as she gives evidence at a hearing that will determine whether she is suspended or disqualified from WA's top council job. | | | | Disaster officials in the Pacific country of Tonga are describing a night of horror after Cyclone Gita lashed the country, flattening the Parliament, ripping roofs from houses and bringing down trees. | | | | One minute they're walking along and talking, the next they're on the floor, not breathing and with no pulse. What you do over the next 10 minutes will literally be the difference between life and death. | | | | The diplomatic efforts from Australian authorities to get Israel to pursue a former Melbourne school principal accused of child sexual abuse were pivotal in leading to her re-arrest, a lawyer representing her alleged victims says. | | | | Perth's desalination plant has been a lifesaver but debate rages around the value of Sydney's plant which sits broken and idle. | | | | Shahid Mahmood 'looked broken' when he escaped from slave-like conditions living in a storage basement in the diplomatic residence of Pakistan's High Commissioner to Australia. | | | | Construction workers at Gold Fields House, near Sydney's Circular Quay, are evacuated with more than a dozen treated for smoke inhalation, after protective mesh surrounding scaffolding on the building caught alight. | | | | The rate of global sea level rise is accelerating as ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland melt, an analysis of the first 25 years of satellite data confirms. | | | | Police believe the man was poaching in a private game park when he was attacked and killed outside Kruger National Park in South Africa. | | | | Vanessa Trump, her mother and one other person are taken to a hospital after opening mail addressed to Donald Trump Jr that contained a white powder. | | | | Scandal-plagued South African President Jacob Zuma is ordered to step down following an eight-hour meeting of his party's top leadership. | | | | An unexploded bomb from World War II has been removed from London's City Airport after all flights in and out of the airport were cancelled. | |  |
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