| | | | Malcolm Turnbull misjudged Barnaby Joyce's stubbornness — instead of quietly taking leave, the former bouncer who once lost his front teeth in an Armidale pub, simply shoved back, Andrew Probyn writes. | | | | An angry Barnaby Joyce lashes out at Malcolm Turnbull, saying the PM's comments about his affair with a former staffer made the situation worse and and piled more suffering on his wife and daughters. | | | | A mother makes a highly emotional plea to Donald Trump to "stop the guns getting into these children's hands" after her 14-year-old daughter was killed during the mass shooting at a Florida high school. | | | | Australia has been "under attack" from a group of Muslim men wanting "to kill as many unbelievers as they can", a Supreme Court judge says while sentencing a man for planning a terrorist attack in Sydney. | | | | A station hand who admitted to killing an a 5.2-metre crocodile is fined after telling the court the croc was eating calves on a central Queensland property and he was sick of it. | | | | After vision emerged of a violent brawl on a Carnival cruise ship, 23 people are removed by police who boarded the vessel anchored off the NSW far south coast. | | | | Paramedics are assessing eight people, including seven children, who were hit by a car at an intersection in Pakenham, with police looking for the driver who left the scene on foot. | | | | People with acute and chronic pain say they are struggling to get the help they need since codeine-related medication was taken off pharmacy shelves. | | | | No doubt many Australians, faced with ever-escalating work commitments, will find early retirement appealing. But before you check out of work, ask yourself these important questions. | | | | Woolworths, Coles and the discount chain, Aldi, have all faced resistance to new stores as they try to boost market share. | | | | In 2009, the Pixar movie Up melted hearts with its whimsy — but it also predicted one device that we could be using very soon. According to one consumer futurist, we could have a translator device to speak with our pets within a decade. | | | | Have you been getting missed calls from overseas numbers or people pretending to be from the Australian Taxation Office? You're not alone, and the consumer watchdog has some advice for people being caught out. | | | | The Government says the new centres will focus on culture and connectedness to family and community with the aim of breaking the cycle of crime, with the Darwin facility to be built in 2020. | | | | A crash involving a truck and a car in Sydney kills three people and leaves two others with serious injuries. | | | | If you wanted to kill AFL stone-dead surely you would turn it into this hollow, unappealing, pressure-free, atmosphere-deficient, oval-in-a-rectangle hole yawn-fest, Richard Hinds writes of AFLX. | | | | The call Jennifer McLeod had both hoped for and dreaded finally came. She thanked the fertility clinic, then hung up the phone and cried. | | | | Unless you're a weather buff, it's unlikely you've heard of a Rossby wave. But the term is about to become a lot more relevant this weekend, with a tropical low set to develop into Tropical Cyclone Kelvin. | | | | We've met a lot of amazing furry friends during Animals week, but Baloo the labrador is especially great: she can predict when her owner Dani Stevens is about to have a seizure. | | | | Robert Mazur led a double life as an undercover agent in the world's most infamous drug cartel. Now he has warnings for Australia. | | | | Retribution for yesterday's killing of a former Comancheros chief is to be expected, an expert on bikie culture says, as footage is released of two men fleeing the scene of the brazen shooting. | | | | Residents of the remote town of Mintabie, on Aboriginal lands, are given 12 months to move away after a review uncovered a culture of drug and alcohol abuse, anti-social behaviour and assault. | |  |
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