| | | | The charges against Catholic Cardinal George Pell should be thrown out "without batting an eyelid" because the complainants are unreliable and the police investigation was flawed, his barrister tells the Melbourne Magistrates Court. | | | | Hundreds of Australian companies are affected in a suspected Russian cyber attack targeting "millions of machines" worldwide, authorities say. | | | | Fox News anchor Sean Hannity railed against the Russia probe and the President's enemies without disclosing he was one of Michael Cohen's three clients. | | | | Channel Seven made a commercial decision based on My Kitchen Rules ratings when it snubbed Commonwealth Games athletes in closing ceremony coverage, a media analyst says. | | | | Australians need to pay more taxes to "fund the health, education and transport services we need", says an open letter on tax reform addressed to PM Malcolm Turnbull. | | | | Scientists engineer an enzyme that digests PET plastics used in millions of tonnes of plastic bottles — but there is still a way to go. | | | | AMP's head of financial advice loses count of the number of times the company misled corporate regulator ASIC over charging customers fees for no service, in evidence given to the financial services royal commission. | | | | A 45-year-old man accused of abusing young children during organised "swinging" group sex parties in Perth is charged with a further 79 offences against five children, including his two daughters and two step-children. | | | | A 57-year-old man who allegedly drove drunk to a Sydney police station to report for bail conditions while his licence was suspended is now behind bars. | | | | A Gold Coast university student, who says he was stressed because he had already failed the subject four times, is sentenced to 40 hours of community service for slapping an academic who refused to give him extra credit. | | | | Acting Prime Minister Michael McCormack has foreshadowed a budget full of goodies next month, but Scott Morrison says he is not Santa. | | | | The Wallabies star says he is disappointed in the way Monday's meeting with ARU chief executive Raelene Castle and NSW Rugby chief Andrew Hore to discuss his social media use was portrayed to the media by Castle. | | | | The NT Government agrees to lift a moratorium on the fracking industry and adopt all recommendations from a recent inquiry, with exploration work set to begin mid-2019. | | | | Despite having North Korean missiles fly over its territory, Japan will not have a seat at the table when Donald Trump negotiates with Kim Jong-un. That's a problem not only for embattled Japanese PM Shinzo Abe but Australia, too, writes Jake Sturmer. | | | | Police investigating suspicious fire after neighbours in a suburban Brisbane street witness an explosion that quickly engulfed a home, leaving two women and a man dead. | | | | Treasure linked to the era of the 10th Century Danish King Harald Gormsson, better known as Harald Bluetooth, is found by two amateur archaeologists on the northern German island of Ruegen in the Baltic Sea. | | | | The technician switched on Darren Haymes' new NBN service, walked out the door and suddenly his family couldn't get onto the internet for six weeks. After four months of problems, he was put back onto his old Telstra cable internet. | | | | The deputy headmaster of Melbourne's Trinity Grammar, who was sacked for cutting a boy's hair on school photo day, returns to work, apologising for the "disruption" caused by his controversial actions and dismissal. | | | | Two of the world's top surfers, Italo Ferreira and Gabriel Medina, say they don't feel comfortable competing in Western Australia's Margaret River region in the wake of the two shark attacks yesterday. | | | | Greens leader Richard Di Natale announces a plan to legalise cannabis for Australians over the age of 18, in a bid to take the drug out of the hands of criminal dealers. | | | | Inmates armed with homemade knives fight each other in a seven-hour riot over territory and money, leaving seven of them dead in their South Carolina jail. | | | | An Australian nun is arrested in the Philippines for engaging in "illegal political activities", after she took part in a human rights fact-finding mission in the country's south, a leader of a left-wing group says. | | | | Around 80 Australians die from bowel cancer each week, but it is one of the most curable types of cancer — if found early. | |  |
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