| | | | The United States and more than a dozen European nations kick out Russian diplomats over a nerve agent attack earlier this month in Britain, the biggest expulsion since the height of the Cold War. | | | | With Steve Smith's job as captain well and truly on the line, we look at the most likely candidates who would take up the mantle in a bid to stabilise the Australian Test cricket team. | | | | Sponsorships of the cricket body and the national team's sidelined captain and vice-captain are under a cloud as the ball-tampering scandal engulfing the sport puts their lucrative deals at risk. | | | | The law that makes telcos cooperate with child exploitation investigations allows them to claim back the cost but NXT Senator Rex Patrick says companies are charging substantially different rates and they should do it for free. | | | | The reason we underpay childcare workers — to the tune of half the average wage — is not because we don't know or think they need a pay rise, writes Lisa Bryant. | | | | US President Donald Trump's personal lawyer demands Stormy Daniels "cease and desist" after the adult-film star said in a television interview she was threatened with violence to stay silent about her alleged affair with Mr Trump. | | | | When archaeologists opened what they thought was an empty Egyptian coffin that had been stored at Sydney University for 150 years, they got a big surprise to find remains. Now they have a mystery to solve. | | | | Bill Shorten is set to announce Labor will retreat from the full force of its policy to end cash refunds for some shareholders, sparing all pensioners from the crackdown. | | | | A former drug addict who "played the victim" to get pharmacies to prescribe medication joins calls for the Queensland Government to set up a real-time monitoring system to prevent doctor shopping. | | | | Researchers say targets for biodiversity loss are failing because they ignore key drivers such as human population and corruption. | | | | The red earth of Anzac Hill inspired the design for the Aboriginal flag, and now a decade-long push to have it flown at its birthplace is backed by the Alice Springs Town Council. | | | | The Catholic school sector's close ties to Labor stretch back back decades, complicating the aims of the Gonski reforms. Only a new kind of politics will help us move towards needs-based education funding, writes Glenn C. Savage. | | | | At first light today, when most Tasmanians are still fast asleep, half a dozen Aboriginal men will be combing the hummocks of Babel Island in search of mutton bird burrows. | | | | Marcus was a category two cyclone when it hit Darwin and Nora was a three when it hit the Cape. But what do these numbers mean? And are they the best way to describe cyclone damage? | | | | Commercial radio stations have to program 25 per cent of Australian music content, but no such rules apply to the popular playlists platforms like Apple Music, Spotify and Amazon Music curate sparking a call from Australian musicians to promote local talent. | | | | South Australia's work, health and safety regulator reclassifies nurse Gayle Woodford's death as work-related and apologises to her family. Her husband Keith Woodford is now calling for a coronial inquest into her murder. | | | | "Mad" Mike Hughes, the "rocket man" who believes the Earth is flat, proved a lot of people wrong when he propelled himself almost 600 metres into the air last weekend and lived to tell the tale. | | | | Wills and testaments are filled with references to houses, money and family heirlooms. Now the NSW Government is going to review what should happen to digital property when you die. | | | | The New South Wales Government is criticised for not doing enough to improve safety on the Princes Highway on the state's south coast. | | | | US-owned superannuation business Mercer is charging excessive fees and trying to keep members in high-fee accounts when it is against their best interests, documents show. | | | | Logan's chamber of commerce is calling for under-fire Mayor Luke Smith to stand down for the council, south of Brisbane, while the corruption watchdog investigates allegations he received a boat from a Chinese developer. | | | | After 12 years of military service, Brian Hartigan knew he needed help. But when he reached out to a psychiatrist, what he received was more like a 'slap in the face', he says. | | | | A second Bass Strait interconnector linking Tasmania to the mainland is given a leg up, with Infrastructure Australia adding the proposal to its priority initiative list. | | | | Investigators say a security guard at the Russian shopping centre where more than 60 people were killed in a fire switched off the fire warning system, and that fire exits from the building were blocked. | |  |
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