| | Thousands of early childhood educators are set to walk off the job in a bid to get the Federal Government to subsidise a pay rise, saying they earn just above the minimum wage on average and their demands for better income aren't being taken seriously. | | | Cyclone Nora hits the western coast of Cape York as a category 3 storm, bringing destructive winds and heavy rain that is set to cause flash flooding across much of Far North Queensland. | | | Cameron Bancroft may find himself in trouble with the ICC after footage appears to show him rubbing the ball with a small object before concealing it in his underpants during the third day's play of the third Test against South Africa in Cape Town. | | | North America correspondent Zoe Daniel visits her American cousin to learn how to shoot an AR-15 and gain a personal insight into US gun culture. | | | If you want more jobs and higher wages, then you need more of what creates jobs and pays wages: businesses. But high taxes and stifling red tape are driving business away, writes Daniel Wild. | | | Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says Malcolm Turnbull cannot stand by and allow Australia's "world-leading gun laws" to be weakened. | | | One of the Whitsundays' most iconic island resorts is on the mend after sustaining significant damage during Cyclone Debbie. | | | Hadi Beydoun never expected to become a surf entrepreneur, but he's brought Australian surfing culture to Ivory Coast, where many of his countrymen are still afraid of the ocean. | | | Investigators have determined the fire started accidentally in the ceiling space but what sparked the blaze remains unknown. | | | A bomb placed under a car explodes in Egypt's second city of Alexandria, killing two people including a policeman, two days before the country is due to hold a presidential election. | | | Three members of the same family, including a baby and a toddler, are dead after a house fire in south-east Queensland, however one child was saved when a passer-by smashed a window with a chair. | | | The deaths of a man and a woman found washed up on a remote section of beach on Bribie Island, north of Brisbane, are being treated as suspicious by detectives on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. | | | A US water park operator and an executive are charged with involuntary manslaughter over the 2016 death of a 10-year-old boy, who was decapitated on a water slide hyped as the world's highest. | | | A 13-year-old girl from Canberra drowns after a boat carrying six passengers who were not wearing life jackets capsized in waters just off Moruya, on the New South Wales south coast. | | | Eight minutes of music cut from the 1977 sci-fi film Close Encounters of the Third Kind has been performed publicly for the first time at a concert in Brisbane. | | | A policeman who was shot after swapping himself for a hostage held by a gunman during a deadly siege of a supermarket has died, the French Interior Minister confirms. | | | The first direct flight between London and Perth has taken to the sky and is tipped to land more travellers on the west coast in a boon for Australia's tourism industry. | | | Champion mare Winx sets a world record for Group One flat wins and posts a staggering 24th-straight victory after taking out the George Ryder Stakes at Rosehill. | | | Authorities spend the day racing to remove the decaying carcasses of the almost 150 short-finned pilot whales that beached themselves along a usually-pristine stretch of Western Australia's coastline. | | | A US teenager's attempt to secure her driver's licence ends quickly as she crashes through the testing station before even leaving the carpark. | | | By Daniel Wild | | | By Paul Verhoeven | | | By Rebecca Turner | | | By Geoff Lemon in Cape Town | | | | | The ABC sent this message to starnewsposting@gmail.com these details are included to help provide assurance that this is a genuine email from ABC.
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