| | | | A damning report accuses the Federal Government of effectively dropping the policy designed to improving the lives of Indigenous Australians, finding it has been severely affected by funding cuts and a "revolving door of prime ministers and senior bureaucrats". | | | | The alleged sexual abuse of three young boys by people linked to a performing arts school in regional NSW reached its height on Anzac Day 2016, court documents reveal, when police say two women forced themselves on a four-year-old. | | | | After regularly and loudly taking credit for the stock market's prolonged surge, the US President appears to blame the recent plunge on a combination of modernity and too much good economic news. | | | | Foxtel is pushing for exemptions to the Government's upcoming gambling-ad ban, arguing some of its channels have "very small audiences", but anti-gambling campaigners say the laws are in danger of being watered down. | | | | Jacqui Lambie has told her Senate replacement Steve Martin he is being dumped from her party for breaching the values of "mateship, respect and integrity". | | | | Using DNA from Britain's oldest nearly complete human skeleton scientists are able to establish aspects of Cheddar Man's appearance which suggests the lighter skin pigmentation now seen as typical of northern Europeans is more recent than previously thought. | | | | While some parents have criticised a recent school crackdown on students who breach strict uniform requirements such as the heel height of shoes, experts say no uniform schools have their own challenges. | | | | Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce calls the end of his marriage "one of the greatest failures of his life", but remains fiercely private about his relationship with a former staff member who is expecting his baby. | | | | Professor Noam Chomsky says Australia has a "difficult balancing act" pursuing a positive path in world affairs between global powers China and the United States. | | | | Turtles have been strung up and hooked, and birds stabbed in a spate of concerning incidents involving wildlife in WA's south. | | | | Changing the bad behaviour starts at home. But it needs to go further: how do we account for our collective blindness to violence against women for century after century, asks Mark MacDiarmid. | | | | Australian magpies that hang out in large groups appear to be smarter and more successful at breeding than those in smaller groups, according to a tests on a group of birds that live in the suburbs of Perth. | | | | Two operations were disrupted when a software failure left part of the Royal Adelaide Hospital without power for up to 20 minutes yesterday morning, with one surgeon saying he was "totally in the dark" while his instrument was still inside a patient. | | | | Researchers from Yale University find positive beliefs about ageing may protect older individuals from developing dementia, even if they are genetically predisposed to it. | | | | Tourists will always flock to marvel at the architectural brilliance of Sydney's Opera House, but few know about the world's only double helix 'spiral' car park beneath them. Curious Sydney investigates how the design came to be. | | | | A 123-turbine wind farm west of Brisbane won't just be the biggest renewable energy project in the southern hemisphere, it's also opening up a potential source of income for a community hit hard by drought. | | | | After a volatile few days in global stock markets that saw $5.1 trillion wiped off the value of shares, ABC business reporter Stephen Letts answers your questions about what this means for Australia. | | | | A new crowd record for women's Aussie rules is set to be broken when Fremantle and Collingwood meet at the new Perth Stadium, but it's a milestone that has been a century in the making. | | | | Twenty years on, three women who topped their classes in Year 12 have found that learning how to fail is just as important as celebrating success. | | | | In a bid to fend off Government attacks over dual citizenship, tearful Labor MP Susan Lamb tells Parliament she can't lay her hands on documents that would clarify her status because she has been estranged from her mother since she was a six-year-old girl. | | | | The Federal Government will water down its proposed foreign espionage laws, in the face of a backlash from Labor, the Greens and the country's largest media organisations. | | | | Know anyone from Ascension Island? The ACCC says returning calls from suspicious overseas numbers could cost you. | | | | For a brief moment after World War One, everyone was obsessed with fairies. A society of eccentrics, including Walt Disney, set out to prove they were real. | |  |
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