| | | | The banned Australian cricket vice-captain breaks his silence over his role in the ball-tampering scandal, apologising for the distress he caused to the sport and its fans. | | | | It's been a sudden fall from grace for Australian cricket captain Steve Smith, and fans are divided on whether he got what he deserved — or whether the punishment should have been even greater. | | | | The AFP launches an investigation into alleged people smuggling and one man is charged, after nine Indian nationals were detained by Border Force at Brisbane Airport accused of fraudulently claiming to be journalists arriving for the Commonwealth Games. | | | | Victorian Liberal MP Roma Britnell says she was left "shocked" and physically shaken after an altercation with Labor MP Hong Lim in a lift at State Parliament. | | | | A Perth magistrate throws out all charges against one of two carers accused of physically assaulting an elderly woman in an aged care facility, after viewing footage captured by the woman's son that showed no evidence of "untoward" treatment. | | | | Porn star Stormy Daniels seems to be the one person in the US President's orbit who is untouchable. Here's what he stands to lose if he so much as mentions her name, writes Micheline Maynard. | | | | Millions of Christians will gather this Easter weekend to worship a saviour who bears little resemblance to the man executed millennia ago. It's an issue, given the importance of having diverse role models in modern society, writes Robyn J. Whitaker. | | | | NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says her Government has "listened to the community" as she announces a policy backflip, confirming the Sydney Olympic Stadium does not need to be knocked down and will instead be refurbished. | | | | A Melbourne man who murdered his wife in front of their children, in an act police believe was driven by his desire to join the Islamic State group, is sentenced to life in prison. | | | | Channel Nine wins the Australian Open tennis broadcast rights from rival television network Seven, under a five-year, $300-million deal starting from 2020. | | | | With the Government still short of support in the Senate for its corporate tax cut, business reporter David Taylor looks at the key issues in the debate that may sway the undecided. | | | | A police officer rejects defence accusations that detectives had been "zeroing in" on Cardinal George Pell, and had failed to take statements from nuns, choir members and church officials which were favourable to the Catholic cleric. | | | | At just 15, Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head when masked Taliban gunmen stopped and boarded a bus taking her home from school. A Nobel Peace Prize and six years later, she has finally returned to Pakistan. | | | | Ads for companies like Woolworths and BMW have appeared in articles from websites that target Muslim people and other groups, because of a loophole in Facebook's Instant Articles publishing tool. | | | | The government agency has lost more than half of its workforce in under two years with staff now being offered more money to relocate to the new facility 750 kilometres away. | | | | NBN speeds are "better than expected" with only a minor drop in speeds during busy times, the ACCC says after conducting the first major testing of the system. | | | | A prescription error that led to the death of a man at a NSW hospital most likely occurred when an anaesthetist left the patient's records open on a computer, and returned and entered another person's script by mistake, a coroner finds. | | | | As Chinese censors blocked any mention of North Korea during Kim Jong-un's secret visit this week, internet users employed some creativity to keep discussion of the sensitive topic alive. | | | | Seven people who glued themselves to the public gallery in the House of Representatives during a protest that disrupted parliament are cleared of charges stemming from damage they allegedly caused to a balustrade. | | | | Drone vision captures the aftermath of a fuel tanker explosion, after it collides with a car towing a caravan, killing at least one driver. | | | | The NT Government is under pressure to crack down on dangerous dogs from a grandmother who had teeth broken, bones crushed and tendons severed during one of the 240 alleged dog attacks in the Darwin and Palmerston City Council areas over the past eight months. | | | | Kim Jong-un's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing sends a powerful message to the US that regional ties run deep, writes Stan Grant. | | | | Scientists are putting the finishing touches on the Parker Solar Probe ahead of its mission to fly directly into the Sun's atmosphere and figure out why it is hotter than the Sun's surface. | | | | Antonio Rokov is posthumously honoured with the Star of Courage in the latest round of Australian Bravery Awards for his efforts to save the life of Elijah Arranz during a tandem skydiving accident in 2015. | |  |
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