| | | | Up to a dozen homes are destroyed or damaged in western Victoria — as well as hundreds of beef and dairy cattle — as hot weather and strong winds cause numerous blazes to flare across farmland. | | | | Properties are destroyed and thousands are without power as strong winds and lightning strikes fuel bushfires rage in Victoria's south west. Follow the situation as it unfolds in our live coverage. | | | | The only way to get 150 wedding guests out of the path of a fast-approaching bushfire was by bus — but the bus was locked and the driver wasn't there. | | | | The Friday firings, the damning texts, the sheer speed and chaos that swirls every day around Donald Trump is now part and parcel of covering politics in the United States, writes Philip Williams. | | | | Personal memos kept by sacked former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe detailing his interactions with President Donald Trump are provided to special counsel Robert Mueller's office, it has been revealed. | | | | Asked if he might seek a future role with a national profile, defeated premier Jay Weatherill responded: "Absolutely not. I can say that with great passion I have zero ambitions to go into Federal Parliament". | | | | People lighting up a cigarette in a dimly-lit restaurant is a scene almost unimaginable in Australia these days, but it's one that plays out in many restaurants in Japan because there are no national laws to prevent smoking indoors. | | | | Facebook suspends Cambridge Analytica over allegations it used improperly obtained data. Here's how it relates to Donald Trump. | | | | "You definitely do need to have two accounts," says Meika Woolard, a 13-year-old with 335,000 Instagram followers. She is one of Australia's most prominent teen Insta-influencers, and part of a growing trend of users harnessing the power of multiple accounts. | | | | Richard Di Natale says the Greens must clean up their internal problems if they are to win back voters who abandoned them in the Victorian by-election. | | | | The money might be better than other military jobs but being a submariner comes at a cost of personal space, sleep and months without sunlight. | | | | Staff at the Hobart Showgrounds say they can no longer cope with the increasing homelessness the site is managing. Families are camping at the showgrounds as Hobart's housing shortage worsens. | | | | Penrith investigate after allegations someone in the crowd racially abused South Sydney's Greg Inglis during a match at Panthers Stadium last night. | | | | Less than 24-hours before polling booths open, the Kremlin appears to be using the deepening diplomatic crisis over the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal to its advantage. In fact, this poisoning case may have helped get more Russians into polling booths. | | | | The Federal Government confirms an Australian official has met with Russian authorities in Moscow amid the ongoing row over the poisoning of a former spy in Britain. | | | | A mother who took her baby to an Ed Sheeran concert in Adelaide for free is furious a mum in Brisbane has been told she'll need a ticket for her four-month-old to attend his sold-out show. | | | | While graziers are celebrating the rising green grass following record-breaking falls in parts of western Queensland, palaeontologists are also excited — by the potential of rising fossils. | | | | Total fire bans are in place and temperatures are forecast to reach 40C in Sydney's CBD. And Bondi could see temperatures reach 39C, with an unusual weather pattern responsible for keeping the mercury high in the coastal areas. | | | | With the threat of a second tropical low forming north of the Territory, residents in Darwin continue to clean up, with more than one-third of the region's properties without power. | | | | After the failed prosecution of former Queensland policeman Rick Flori for leaking a video of former colleagues bashing a prisoner, the ABC reveals the chequered history of the officers involved, who were the subjects of dozens of brutality complaints. | | | | Roly Lennox, 86, has been delivering fresh produce to homes on the Sunshine Coast for 70 years, without a single address, mobile phone, alarm clock or sick day — just the names of his beloved customers and how to get to them. | | | | A global backlash towards long, lean models sporting skin-exposing designs is starting to build, focused around the "modest fashion" movement, which sees designs showcased in a first ever runway show in Perth. | |  |
By state political reporter Richard Willingham | |  |
By chief foreign correspondent Philip Williams in Washington | |  |
By Europe correspondent James Glenday in Moscow | |  |
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