| | | | The boss of the public service has had a report into the Australian Border Force Commissioner's personal conduct for at least five months, while the senior uniformed officer remains on paid leave earning hundreds of thousands of dollars. | | | | The parents of Stuart Kelly, whose brother died in a one-punch attack in Sydney, believe he was targeted in a sadistic college hazing ritual before he killed himself. A new report has triggered fresh calls for an inquest into his death. | | | | The photogenic Canadian PM's honeymoon appears to be over, with a number of commentators wondering just why he went to India and played dress-ups without yielding anything of note for Canada, writes Micheline Maynard. | | | | Veterans Affairs Minister Michael McCormack will replace Barnaby Joyce as the Deputy Prime Minister and Nationals leader after beating surprise challenger George Christensen in a ballot this morning. | | | | As we devote headspace today to the big changes in Canberra, let's also spend some time on Xi Jinping, a leader who will have a much greater impact on the courses of our lives than Michael McCormack, writes Stan Grant. | | | | The nuclear-powered USS Carl Vinson is pushing through the disputed territory in defiance of China's claim over the waters. | | | | A plain-clothes police officer who shot a man dead during an attempted armed robbery at a Melbourne bottle shop was already inside the store when the masked man burst in, an inquiry is told. | | | | Mervyn Annear, 65, had moved away from a town in WA's Goldfields when he lost his job, but when he returned to reconcile with his ex-wife, Charma, her pregnancy triggered a fight with fatal consequences, a court is told. | | | | The lawyer representing the West Australian woman who made a complaint against Barnaby Joyce reveals further information about the nature of the allegation, confirming it refers to "sexual harassment and/or sexual misconduct". | | | | Burning waste and using it to generate energy is being touted as a viable alternative to landfill for Victoria under a proposal put before the State Government, but some locals in Melbourne's west are concerned how pollution would be managed. | | | | Mental health patients are waiting an "entirely unacceptable" period of time in emergency departments, in a practice experts are calling discriminatory and dangerous. | | | | At least five people are killed as severe thunderstorms sweep through the central US, spawning tornadoes that flattened homes, gale force winds and widespread flooding from the Upper Midwest to Appalachia. | | | | West Australian subcontractors are saddled with further debts totalling hundreds of thousands of dollars with major civil landscaping company BCL Group going into liquidation — and there are fears more builders could go under. | | | | What impact are markets having on the environment? Volunteers in Darwin sort through mountains of coffee cups, plastics and food waste in just one weekend. | | | | Students at the Florida high school where 17 of their classmates and staff members were killed return to gather their belongings thrown down in panic during the shooting nearly two weeks ago. | | | | The Bulldogs set the benchmark with their record-breaking win, the Magpies get on the board and there's a solid dose of wet-weather football — take a look back at round four. | | | | Wild weather rips the roof off a primary school and flattens sheds in WA's Wheatbelt as a severe front that pummelled southern Perth yesterday wreaks a path of destruction through the southern half of the state. | | | | Security bollards at Parliament have taken out five cars in the last few months, and a taxpayer-funded review costing more than $27,000 has been ordered to figure out how it happened. | | | | A 13-year-old Victorian boy with severe allergies died in hospital from a reaction to anaesthetic administered to him by staff after he suffered an anaphylactic attack while eating breakfast, a coroner finds. | | | | The officers who fatally shot Liam Scorsese east of Brisbane yesterday acted "courageously and professionally", the police union says, as the 31-year-old is remembered by his lawyer as a "gentleman". | | | | An Australian caught up in PNG's earthquake says his house shook as the powerful earthquake struck. | | | | How does a doctor who is quadriplegic work in a busy emergency room? When medical student Dinesh Palipana suffered a severe spinal injury in a car crash, he was told his dream of becoming a doctor was over. Now he's one of the most sought-after interns at Gold Coast University Hospital. | | | | After two failed bids for the Winter Olympics, Pyeongchang delivered the incredible, the absurd, and posed lingering questions about Russia's involvement at future Olympic events. | |  |
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