| | | | Abuse, shocking hazing rituals and misogyny are rampant at Sydney University, according to a damning new report which says the toxic culture is perpetrated by a clique of powerful older students on first-year students "for sexual and sadistic" purposes. | | | | 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". | | | | Australia will get a new deputy prime minister this morning, with Wagga Wagga-based MP and Veterans Affairs Minister Michael McCormack expected to be appointed the new leader of the Nationals. | | | | China's ruling Communist Party proposes scrapping the ten-year term limit for President Xi Jinping, in a move almost certain to be written into the country's constitution in March. | | | | A North Korean delegate who made a rare visit to the South to attend the Winter Olympics closing ceremony tells President Moon Jae-in Pyongyang is open to talks with the United States. | | | | The Pyeongchang Olympic Winter Games are given a festive and joyous send-off, as the strains of K-pop help provide the soundtrack for a closing ceremony attended by the likes of Ivanka Trump. | | | | 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. | | | | Should Australia's top order fail in the face of South Africa's challenging attack the question about whether Matthew Renshaw should have been selected will linger, writes Richard Hinds. | | | | About once a week, I'm the one to gently explain to people that the star name they bought is not officially recognised. I don't want to be that person anymore. | | | | 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. | | | | Australian Conservatives leader Cory Bernardi lashes out at the SA Liberals over their opposition to a nuclear dump, and likens Elon Musk to "the monorail salesman from The Simpsons". | | | | The NRA lashed out as a student-led campaign for tighter US gun laws gathered steam. In response, major companies like Delta Air Lines are abandoning the group. | | | | Sridevi, described as Bollywood's first female superstar in India's male-dominated film industry, is dead at the age of 54. | | | | One Nation will not ask the Senate to consider the eligibility of Senator Fraser Anning, after a public spat between Pauline Hanson and her former colleague. | | | | SES crews are helping mop up after the storm brought wind gusts up to 130kph with hail and a deluge of rain. | | | | British actress Emma Chambers, known for her roles in The Vicar of Dibley television series and the romantic comedy Notting Hill, has died at 53 of natural causes, her agent says. | | | | Residents inside a home in the eastern Brisbane suburb of Wakerley "were in fear of their lives" as an "enraged" armed man tried to break into the home, police say. | | | | A newly built avant-garde mosque in the heart of Iran's capital has infuriated hardliners, who see it as part of a creeping secular onslaught on the Islamic republic. | | | | Residents on Canberra's northside have seen their homes inundated, with heavy rain overnight and through Sunday morning prompting more than 150 calls for help to emergency services. | | | | A two-bedroom apartment at this residential resort in North Queensland that sold for $565,000 in 2007, last year went for less than $170,000. | | | | An impressionist painting by Edgar Degas is found stowed on a bus, but no passengers claim the luggage holding the artwork taken from a Marseille museum in 2009. | |  |
By Brad Tucker, ANU | |  |
By Offsiders columnist Richard Hinds | |  |
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