| | | | Catherine Marriott, the woman who filed a sexual harassment complaint against outgoing Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, says she did it to speak up against inappropriate behaviour. | | | | Malcolm Turnbull appears to have pulled off an impressive feat of navigation — successfully charting Donald Trump's temperament and helping steer an old alliance closer towards full health, writes Andrew Probyn. | | | | Welcome to Hay, outback NSW. It is a long way from Oxford Street, but next weekend people here will hold their first Mardi Gras. Whether the town is ready for it depends on who you talk to. | | | | The United Nations Security Council adopts a resolution demanding a 30-day truce in Syria to allow aid deliveries and medical evacuations with the support of Syrian ally Russia, after a flurry of last-minute negotiations. | | | | Egypt's Antiquities Ministry announces the discovery of an ancient necropolis south of Cairo, holding the mummified remains of a high priest of Thoth, the ancient god of the moon and wisdom. | | | | Successful crowdfunding requires the sick to become expert marketers — and it's a crowded marketplace. | | | | When Brisbane chefs Anita and Jens Steffen chucked in retirement for the cook's job on a rural station in Queensland's Gulf country, their friends thought they were crazy — but the pair have never looked back. | | | | After a childhood spent not knowing how to swim, lifelong "shallow-ender" Ben Pobjie finally took the plunge as an adult. It was painful and humiliating, but also exciting and life-affirming. | | | | Australian forensic biologist Kirsty Wright had identified victims of 9/11 and the Bali Bombings, but it was the aftermath of 2004 Boxing Day tsunami that posed the greatest challenge. | | | | The rogue nation is sending a man some in the South want "brought to his knees" to the Winter Olympics closing ceremony. And he'll be seated right behind Ivanka Trump. | | | | The South Korean women's curling team with the fairytale story whose moniker reflects the locally-famed garlic grown in their hometown becomes a worldwide sensation for their fierce talent and funny personalities. | | | | It has been an "OK" reporting season, but recent gains in the market may be swamped by several more corrections according to one big investment bank. | | | | A California couple accused of keeping their children imprisoned, chained and starved in a squalid suburban home have pleaded not guilty to new charges, as defence lawyers say they are overwhelmed by the sheer amount of evidence in the case. | | | | Like many young people, Ella Coulter started drinking when she was at school. But after hitting rock bottom last year, the 29-year-old is now sober for the first time in 15 years. | | | | A global crash in insect populations finds its way to Australia, with entomologists across the country reporting lower than average numbers of wild insects. | | | | A Canadian ski cross competitor, his wife and his coach are all arrested for drunkenly stealing a car and driving it near the Pyeongchang athletes' village at the Winter Olympics. | | | | Hundreds of competitors in the Rottnest Channel Swim are pulled from the water after a 3-to-4-metre great white shark is spotted in the area. | | | | Hundreds of people wearing white frocks while brandishing umbrellas and tea cups dance in tribute to the missing school girl from the iconic Australian novel and film Picnic at Hanging Rock. | | | | Two sailors are dead after a yacht overturned during the Bunbury and Return Ocean Race off the WA coast. | | | | People who squeeze avocados at supermarkets are bruising the fruit for other buyers, researchers warn. | | | | For over a decade Kevin Gatti's life revolved around working out and counting calories — then he had an epiphany. | | | | Ester Ledecka makes Winter Olympics history, becoming the first person to win gold medals in both skiing and snowboarding events by claiming victory in the women's parallel giant slalom. | |  |
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