| | | | After years in opposition, a jubilant SA Liberal leader Steven Marshall defies predictions of a hung parliament and declares victory to the party faithful. | | | | Thousands of Victorians are being urged to leave their homes as bushfires burn across the state's south-west with damaging winds expected to hamper firefighting efforts today. | | | | Labor wins the Batman by-election, upsetting the Greens who were the favourites to win the inner-Melbourne seat and have now blamed preferences deals between Labor and "hard-right" parties for their defeat. | | | | The by-election for the federal seat of Batman is marred by a last-minute scandal, with reports elderly voters received phone calls telling them they did not have to vote. | | | | Russia expels 23 British diplomats in a carefully calibrated retaliatory move against London, which has accused the Kremlin of orchestrating a nerve toxin attack on a former Russian double agent and his daughter in southern England. | | | | The money might be better than other military jobs but being a submariner comes at a cost of personal space, sleep and months without sunlight. | | | | Migrants and refugees are stemming a decline in 151 regional areas across Australia, keeping schools open and businesses operating. | | | | Cyclone Marcus may have been on the "lower end" of the scale, but the destruction wrought by the category two storm should serve as a reminder to Top End residents about the importance of being prepared, emergency services say. | | | | Roly Lennox, 86, has been delivering fresh produce to homes on the Sunshine Coast for 70 years, without a single address, mobile phone, alarm clock or sick day — just the names of his beloved customers and how to get to them. | | | | A Tasmanian tulip farm is connecting with farmers around the world via social media to improve the health of their soil and produce better crops. | | | | A small passenger plane carrying five people crashes into a house shortly after take-off north of the Philippines capital of Manila, killing all those onboard and five people on the ground, officials say. | | | | Two days before a catastrophic bridge failure in Miami, an engineer called authorities to say some cracking had been found at one end of the concrete span. But by the time it was heard, it was too late. | | | | US Attorney General Jeff Sessions sacks senior FBI official Andrew McCabe just two days before his 50th birthday making him ineligible to retire with his full pension. | | | | The editor of a local newspaper is labelled a "bigot" after removing a reference to a man's husband in his mother's obituary because it did not align with his religious values. | | | | The horrifying malfunction of a ski lift in Georgia sees holidaymakers flung into the air and others forced to jump for their lives. | | | | A woman who says she was raped by two strangers while drunk now faces the prospect of giving evidence again after an appeal court quashed the conviction of the two alleged attackers, on the grounds they were "racially stereotyped" by the prosecution. | | | | Black Panther struggles to resonate with audiences in China, the world's second-largest cinema market, with some movie-goers deriding its "American values". | | | | A couple who detectives wrongly accused of faking a Hollywood-style kidnapping reach a multi-million-dollar settlement with Californian authorities. | | | | Kirsty McDonald thought it would be OK to bring her four-month-old breastfeeding son to one of Ed Sheeran's upcoming concerts. But she's been told by Ticketek "there is no free on the knee" for the sold-out event. | | | | Sound engineers have managed to construct the speech former US president John F Kennedy was about to make before he was assassinated in 1963. | |  |
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