| | | | Jill Kindt and Jo Grant received special permission to skip the waiting period and wed a week after same-sex marriage was legalised in Australia. They spent just 48 days as wives before Ms Grant died from cancer. | | | | Australia is a world leader in the use of rooftop solar power, but some experts believe that with so much power coming online it may soon be worthless — and governments will have little choice but to cut subsidies. | | | | Dessert chain Doughnut Time sacks most of its staff, shuts down more than 75 per cent of its stores, and is hit with legal action at Fair Work Australia. | | | | A Canberra man who befriended a group of teenage girls, driving them to parties and buying them alcohol, before sexually assaulting them will spend at least five years behind bars. | | | | Amid the myriad online articles addressing the link between sugar and diseases, and whether it's better to substitute sugar with fruit, and about whether we should quit sugar altogether, it's worth examining which type of sugar — if any — is best, writes Sze-Yen Tan. | | | | The family of Denishar Woods, left with brain damage after an electric shock from a garden tap, could be eligible for millions of dollars in compensation from the Department of Housing, a lawyer says. | | | | The Commonwealth Bank is set to refund $16 million to customers who bought questionable add-on insurance policies, as it dumps the sale of the controversial products. | | | | Read the headlines and you'd be forgiven for thinking we have been transported back in time. Trade wars, spies poisoned, a new Mao Zedong and the threat of nuclear war, writes Stan Grant. | | | | Rejected asylum seekers from Manus Island are being told it's too dangerous for them to return to their countries of origin, but they're also not allowed to stay in Papua New Guinea. | | | | Police raid a property on Queensland's Darling Downs, saying they have found items of interest which could be linked to the suspected murder of Brisbane man Sam Price-Purcell. | | | | With fewer than 100 days until the 2018 FIFA World Cup kicks off in Russia, we take a look at all 32 teams involved and rate them based on their chances in the tournament. | | | | How the basement-dwelling Newcastle Jets turned things around in a season, became an antidote to A-League negativity and may even have boosted the Socceroos' World Cup ambitions in the process. | | | | Government backbencher Craig Kelly says that a petrol Corolla emits less over its lifetime than an electric Tesla. RMIT ABC Fact Check checks his comparison. | | | | A Darwin man who was high on ice and hearing voices when he told police he killed his baby has the murder charge against him dropped, with a court told the child died of natural causes. | | | | The poisoning of an ex-Russian spy at a British shopping centre has drawn immediate parallels with other Kremlin opponents who've had a mysterious demise during Russian President Vladimir Putin's rule. | | | | At 17, Farida was kidnapped, raped and sold as a sex slave to Islamic State terrorists. This is the story of her extraordinary escape. | | | | The NSW Transport Minister says renovations at Australia's busiest railway station will untangle congestion, but there are concerns the major redevelopment at Central will exacerbate problems on Sydney's struggling train network. | | | | It is hoped the new maritime border deal will end the bitter dispute over oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea, but future negotiations could still be difficult. | | | | A dad has filmed his 10-year-old son running 1.6km to school as punishment for bullying on the school bus, saying it's a "healthy way" to discipline him. | | | | The head of Australia's Reserve Bank says while some nations will want to retaliate against the US tariff plan, any escalation would be very bad for the world economy. | | | | The Labor leader is a garden-variety centre-left politician who has been blessed with a lot of luck during his time in Parliament, writes Frank Bongiorno. | | | | Franchisees of Aussie Farmers Direct say the failed company's attempt to compete with the supermarkets on groceries was never going to work. | |  |
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