| | | | Shem Garlett briefly left his teenage son Jaylen trying on clothes for his school ball in Myer. Then he heard a call on the store intercom for security and when he returned his son was surrounded by 10 Myer staff. | | | | Emmanuel and Julie Cassimatis, the husband and wife founders of the collapsed firm — which left more than 3,000 clients destitute — are facing fines of $70,000 each under a federal court ruling. | | | | Do you buy stuff from overseas online? You could soon be charged an extra $7 per parcel under a proposal being considered by Home Affairs bureaucrats in Canberra. Predictably, eBay isn't happy. | | | | Winx has become the closest thing there is to racing certainty, but jockey Hugh Bowman says it isn't collecting silverware that is the highlight of his job, "it's just that feeling of acceleration". | | | | ANZ Bank remedies a "technical fault" that prevented customers from withdrawing more than $200 from its ATMs and online platforms. | | | | Video from inside a self-driving Uber that hit and killed a pedestrian shows the vehicle's headlights illuminating a woman directly in front of it, and the person behind the wheel looking up in shock. | | | | A federal appeals court upholds a copyright infringement verdict that 2013 hit Blurred Lines illegally copied from Marvin Gaye's Got to Give it Up, in a ruling musicians fear may harm the creativity of future artists and the music industry in general. | | | | The Cambridge Analytica scandal is not a "breach" of Facebook but the very business model on which it's built, and our democracy and privacy suffer, writes Uri Gal. | | | | Pauline Hanson will vote for the Turnbull Government's company tax cuts, in exchange for more cash for apprenticeships for young Australians. But the Government still needs the support of crossbenchers Derryn Hinch and Tim Storer. | | | | Dealing with Centrelink is "incredibly stressful and frustrating", advocates say, describing the system as difficult-to-navigate and demoralising for the people who depend on it. | | | | A small town in WA's outback is hoping for answers to one of the state's most mysterious disappearance cases with the Government now offering a $250,000 reward for information. | | | | The financial services royal commission spends a frustrating morning quizzing an ANZ executive who was not in charge of the business it was looking into at the time it made dodgy car loans. | | | | Here is how authorities obtained the suspected parcel bomber's phone number, linked it to the bombing locations and zeroed in him after after 19 days, two dead victims and more than 1,000 calls of suspicious packages around the city. | | | | Getting a song on a major radio station can be a big break for an Australian band. But new research suggests commercial stations may not be hitting their mandated quotas for local content. | | | | This young man doesn't want you to go through what he went through after being forced into a new car loan and chased by debt collectors. | | | | A children's charity is going to sell tiny houses to the general public for as little as $120,000 in an effort to raise funds for homeless kids. | | | | A 21-year-old man who was rescued after a trench collapsed on him while he was laying pipes in Ballarat dies in hospital. The man's death follows the death of another man who was killed instantly at the time of the accident. | | | | A magnitude 7.5 earthquake, 145 dead, 270,000 in need of emergency aid. This unimaginable humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding right now. But you'd be forgiven for not knowing much about it, writes Anna Bryan. | | | | A new AFL season means a fresh start for all 18 clubs, and with developing lists reaching their peak and the path well and truly cleared by the Tigers and Bulldogs, more teams than ever will believe it's their year, writes Dean Bilton. | | | | Residents in north-east Victoria battle an outbreak of a grass known as hairy panic, with tumbleweeds as high as the roof of a home, and visibility on local roads affected by tumbleweed storms. | | | | A team of international health experts has accused the medical fraternity of "mismanaging" back pain and providing "ineffective and harmful" treatments. | | | | From white to blue, yellow to green and even striped: here's the science behind iceberg colours. | | | | Business and jobs seem to be weathering the new economy extremely well. It is equality that is really being disrupted, and the way we are going it will get worse and worse, writes Carl Rhodes. | | | | Australian actor Cate Blanchett says it is "bewildering" Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi has not spoken out about the atrocities being committed against Rohingya Muslims. | | | | Perfect surfing conditions are predicted this weekend thanks to Tropical Cyclone Marcus as the category five system causes wind waves to barrel down the western coastline. | |  |
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