| | | | President Donald Trump tweets he is replacing Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State with the CIA's Mike Pompeo, after a series of public rifts over policy on North Korea, Russia and Iran. | | | | Tillerson dared challenge Trump on climate change, Iran's nuclear deal and North Korea. The wonder is not that he was sacked but that he lasted so long, writes Philip Williams. | | | | Russia issues a chilling warning after Britain gives it a deadline to answer accusations of involvement in the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal, but US and EU allies express support for Britain's condemnation of the attack. | | | | What does it say about a city when everyone's future plans seem to involve escaping from it? | | | | More than 200,000 pensioners will lose money under Labor's plan to overhaul Australia's system of franking credits, shadow treasurer Chris Bowen says. | | | | Labor's plan to scrap tax refunds on dividends for people who pay little or no tax is not just politically divisive — it has also divided the business community. | | | | Ipswich, west of Brisbane, has won the race to build hundreds of Boxer CRV light armoured vehicles as part of the largest purchase in the Australian Army's history. | | | | A former top insurance executive blows the lid on what he describes as "disgusting" behaviour inside the sector, and calls on the banking royal commission to examine the treatment of customers with mental illness. | | | | It is undeniably hard yakka, and shearing sheds are not all that glamorous, so the wool industry is working to find new ways to attract new young guns as demand for wool skyrockets. | | | | The contrast between financial advisers and mortgage brokers has never been more striking. Brokers can still usher home buyers in to debt arrangements they can't afford to repay, writes chief economics correspondent Emma Alberici. | | | | A journalist's response to a foreign reporter's soft question at China's annual "Two Sessions" political meeting highlights the sometimes farcical environment reporters covering the event have to work under. | | | | Labor's federal infrastructure spokesman Anthony Albanese says that South Australia's share of federal infrastructure funding is dropping to 2 per cent in coming years. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates. | | | | It's every kid's dream — healthy food that tastes like lollies. Now Australian grape growers are cashing in on a US fruit frenzy, with grapes specially bred to taste just like fairy floss. | | | | Mark Veneris had lost 74 demerit points in three decades but was still allowed behind the wheel. On Christmas Day, he was allegedly under the influence of drugs and alcohol he was involved in a crash that claimed the life of a Queensland mother and daughter. | | | | According to details obtained by the ABC under a Right to Information request, overseas hackers breached Queensland's Department of Transport cyber security network in December, before attempting to steal information from other government staff members. | | | | The Australian Government must ensure that charities aren't vulnerable to exploitation by terrorist groups and their supporters, writes Rodger Shanahan. | | | | Despite the afterglow of a happy Winter Olympics, war on the Korean Peninsula remains a distinct possibility, with Kim Jong-un flaunting his nuclear capabilities and Donald Trump not ruling out a pre-emptive strike, write Kim Beazley and L. Gordon Flake. | | | | Someone was living "on and off" in a Melbourne home where a woman's body was found rotten in the bathtub earlier this year, police say. | | | | A tropical low moving towards Queensland's south-east develops into a category one tropical cyclone, which is expected to generate large waves, dangerous surf conditions and higher tides. | | | | Christopher Mellon, a former deputy assistant secretary of defence for intelligence, accuses the US Government of failing to investigate evidence of unidentified flying objects as a new video purporting to show an encounter off the US mainland comes to light. | | | | Getting a haircut may seem like such a simple task, but for children with autism, the mix of the unknown, the lack of control, and the sensory overload can be quite terrifying. | | | | We're putting you in charge of the levers of population growth to shape what Australia will look like in 2101. A word of warning before you begin: your decisions could shape the future for millions of Australians. | |  |
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