| | | | All that anyone who loves cricket wants is a fast response to the ball-tampering saga, but James Sutherland has left many questions unanswered, writes Geoff Lemon. | | | | After a nightmare tour of South Africa, Jim Maxwell says David Warner's reputation has fallen so far in cricket circles and with the general public that he may have played his last match for Australia. | | | | Cricket Australia says only three players were involved in the plot to tamper with the ball. But former cricketers say there must be more to the story. | | | | China says Kim Jong-un pledged to work towards denuclearising the Korean Peninsula during a four-day "unofficial visit" to Beijing which ended today and included a meeting with Xi Jinping. | | | | Victoria Police set up Operation Tethering to investigate Cardinal George Pell before they had even received a complaint about him, a committal hearing is told, as police are accused of "single-mindedly" pursuing Australia's most senior Catholic cleric. | | | | Private health insurance premiums will rise from April 1, leaving consumers wondering if they should give it up or downgrade to save money, write Sophie Lewis and Karen Willis. | | | | A dying man who is being asked to pay over $100,000 to get his own collection of antiques and family heirlooms back from collapsed auction house Mossgreen says he's frustrated his last months are being spent in a legal battle. | | | | All of a sudden Wall Street's digital darlings are looking a bit shabbier, dropping around $32 billion in a couple of days. So is it a necessary correction, or something far nastier? | | | | Russia's ambassador to Australia is hauled in to the Foreign Minister's office to explain his country's role in a nerve gas attack in the UK, hours after an extraordinary press conference in which he tried to cast doubt over whether the incident even happened. | | | | A Byron Bay police officer who struck a drug-affected teenager with a baton tells a hearing he believed someone could have ended up dead if the boy had not been detained. | | | | Detectives believe illegal deer hunters may be responsible for the death of a man who was killed in a hit-and-run crash north-east of Melbourne in November last year. | | | | Commonwealth, state and territory governments must overhaul the justice system to reduce the massive over-representation of Indigenous people in jail, a major inquiry finds. | | | | A Utah Highway Patrol officer who survived being struck by a car on a snowy highway says he feels lucky to be alive after viewing the dramatic dashcam footage of the incident. | | | | Too many people are claiming tax deductions for properties which are not genuinely available for rent or are otherwise only available to friends and family, according to the ATO, and it's launching a crackdown in response. | | | | The officers who arrested Paul Gibbons were counselled for "misbehaviour", leaving the former counter-terrorism investigator with no faith in the Queensland police oversight system. The corruption watchdog concedes that system was "broken" as it embarks on sweeping reforms. | | | | America's oldest gunmaker, Remington, files for bankruptcy protection and some are blaming the election of a Republican for falling gun sales. | | | | French President Emmanuel Macron announces compulsory schooling in France will begin at age three, instead of six, as part of new reforms set to shake up the country's education system. | | | | Nigel Scullion writes to the NT Chief Minister over the alleged sexual assault of a child in a remote community. | | | | The African wild and suburban backyard come together to form an unlikely friendship at Canberra's zoo — a companionship designed to help provide a cheetah cub with the skills it needs to protect the endangered species. | | | | Quebec teenager Charlie Lagarde has walked away with $1,000 per week for the rest of her life after buying a ticket from her local convenience store on her birthday. | | | | Highway closures in north Queensland leave cars lined up for kilometres and Ingham is cut off as the Herbert River floods again. Stranded motorists are being offered chopper flights home for $700 a flight. | | | | Census data shows Queensland is home to seven of the 10 most disadvantaged areas in the country, while Sydney and Perth are home to the most advantaged. | |  |
By business reporter Stephen Letts | |  |
By Geoff Lemon in Johannesburg | |  |
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