| | | | Jobs Minister Michaelia Cash is slammed by Labor senator Penny Wong for threatening to name "every young woman" in Bill Shorten's office caught up in rumours during a tense Senate Estimates hearing. | | | | Melbourne's Crown Casino is reportedly evacuated as police respond to what they describe as an "active incident". | | | | More than 2 million cars will be hit by the largest recall in Australian history, amid fears about defective airbags known to blow up and "fire shrapnel" into the faces of drivers and their passengers. | | | | Two in seven cars on Australian roads are affected by the potentially deadly defective airbags. See if your car is on the list. | | | | A would-be serial killer and a mother-of-three with an interest in BDSM will spend at least 28 years in jail for the calculated murder of Perth teenager Aaron Pajich at their home. | | | | The story behind a Canberra developer, a string of defect-riddled apartments and a government regulator seemingly trying — and failing — to hold him accountable for nearly three decades. | | | | Few experts saw the global financial collapse coming less than a decade ago, but several who did have been warning of the next crisis ever since. This time, one warns, we are facing an "apocalypse", writes Stan Grant. | | | | Bradley Robert Edwards makes his first court appearance accused of murdering teenager Sarah Spiers, as the fathers of two of the victims watched proceedings from the public gallery. | | | | Legal advice provided to the ALP states it would be "virtually impossible" for Adani to challenge a future Labor government's decision to scrap the company's licence to build a coal mine in central Queensland. | | | | A yet-to-be-released UN report provides evidence that North Korea has been sending missile parts to Syria and North Korean missile technicians have been seen working at chemical weapons and missile plants there, a New York Times article claims. | | | | For two weeks the US has been captivated by teenagers taking on adults who have failed to act over decades of mass shootings, but it seems their plea for action is again hitting roadblocks, writes Conor Duffy. | | | | A 37-year-old property developer who murdered his former girlfriend by repeatedly slamming her head into concrete in Sydney's west is sentenced to 18 years in jail, with the judge saying she has never seen such a "remorseful or devastated offender". | | | | The production company behind the musical, Shake & Stir, denies the decision to fire lead actor Linden Furnell was an overreaction. | | | | An imminent court case could clear the way for families of seven cold case victims to have their relatives' deaths reinvestigated. | | | | Australian actor Travis Fimmel, best known for his role in historical TV drama Vikings, will star in a movie about the Battle of Long Tan, and 200 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans are wanted as extras. | | | | The retailer's shares post their worst one-day fall in 28 years amid disappointing profits and multi-million-dollar write-downs in the value of a dairy investment. But chairman Gerry Harvey thinks investors have got it wrong. | | | | An official report scathing of failings at Oakden aged mental health care facility leaves the families caught up in years of controversy wondering how many of the culprits are still working somewhere in the health care system. | | | | University activists are calling for an overhaul in the way on-campus residential colleges are governed in the wake of serious allegations of sexual assault and harassment. | | | | A Siberian weather system forecasters are calling the "Beast from the East" kills two people in Romania as it hits Europe, bringing the coldest temperatures for years to many regions. | | | | A machine developed in Coffs Harbour to recycle marine plastic waste attracts the attention of Prince Charles. | | | | New research finds that a significant number of common gestures made by bonobos and chimpanzees have the same meaning. | | | | It's an essential part of daily life for many of us, but coffee also contains caffeine, and it's a drug more powerful than we realise. | | | | Lifesavers are recommending that children stay away from tail devices, but a group of north Queenslanders continue to dive into the hobby of mermaiding. | |  |
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