| | | | The Indonesian President caused a flurry when he suggested Australia should join the Association of South East Asian Nations, but it's an invitation we're unlikely to ever get, writes Stephen Dziedzic | | | | Australia will have to get creative if it's going to deal with the waste of 40 million people, but it could start by following the lead of Sweden, which has created a system that is reliant on waste as a fuel source. | | | | The parents of a Perth baby are behind bars after failing to take their injured nine-week-old baby to hospital because they feared losing Centrelink payments, a court is told. | | | | Officials say their work has turned "from a rescue to a recovery operation", with more bodies potentially waiting to be found under the twisted metal and concrete. | | | | The Australians involved in a deadly explosion at a shooting range west of Phnon Penh were tourists and not part of an official military training operation as local authorities suggest, according to various sources. | | | | The Home Affairs Minister saying white South African farmers need help from a "civilised country like ours" serves as an insult that harks back to the political thinking behind apartheid, according to several commentators. | | | | As the European dream fractures, and Donald Trump further divides Americans, similar forces are at work in Asia, with the Association of South-East Asian Nations criticised as irrelevant on one hand, and a bulwark against big power dominance on the other, writes Stan Grant. | | | | For the second time in less than six months, tens of thousands of voters in inner Melbourne will head to the polls for today's by-election. And once again they will be making a choice between Labor and the Greens. | | | | Not long ago, it was hard to sneak through the heaving food stalls lining Bangkok's colourful strips. Now, they're hidden beneath railway tracks under a military junta hell-bent on shutting down the world's most famous street food. | | | | Participants in the Turnbull Government's Indigenous work for the dole program are being slapped with more penalties than every other Australian jobseeker combined, prompting claims it is worsening poverty in Aboriginal communities. | | | | The crash, in Iraq's Anbar Province, does not appear to be the result of enemy activity but is under investigation, the Pentagon says. | | | | A man is jailed for cultivating drugs and locking up in a shed an eight-year-old boy, who was found by police covered in weeping wounds, bruises, callouses and scabs. | | | | The inflatable is the size of a small caravan and is rumoured to have made its way almost 400 kilometres north from the Perth beach it escaped. | | | | European aerospace company Airbus develops a way to capture debris orbiting the Earth to help avoid the "nightmare scenario" of space junk colliding with satellites and "causing havoc to global communications and travel". | | | | Cambodian Australians of all ages put fear aside and gather in Sydney to protest against human rights abuses in their homeland, despite their leader's threat to "beat them". | | | | Maritime safety officials end their search for a helicopter pilot who is missing and presumed dead off Port Hedland in northern WA, expressing their "deepest sympathies" to his family and friends. | | | | A plane carrying nearly 10 tonnes of gold and precious metals loses part of its cargo after a door flies open upon take off. | | | | Russia's top Australian diplomat lays out the welcome mat to the English football team, despite the international rift caused by the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in the UK. | | | | A Navy warrant officer from HMAS Albatross is being escorted to Holsworthy Military Prison having been found guilty of indecent acts towards women between 2014 and 2017. | | | | A French judge issues an international arrest warrant for the daughter of Saudi Arabia's King Salman over an alleged attack by her bodyguard against a worker in her Parisian flat, a local source says. | | | | Allegations actress Christie Whelan Browne was "notoriously foul mouthed" "border on victim blaming", a defence lawyer tells a court during a hearing for Craig McLachlan's defamation suit against her, the ABC and Fairfax Media. | | | | Amnesty International urges Indonesia to block the country's hard-line Aceh province from introducing beheading as punishment for murder. | |  |
By Matter of Fact host Stan Grant | |  |
By state political reporter Richard Willingham | |  |
By political reporter Stephen Dziedzic | |  |
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