| | | | Advisers at a Commonwealth Bank financial planning business continued charging fees to customers they knew had died, including one instance where fees were charged for more than a decade after a customer's death, the banking royal commission hears. | | | | Nurse Jacqueline McDowall's Westpac financial adviser told her to sell her home to fund a bed and breakfast retirement plan that turned out to be impossible. Now she's renting and doesn't think she'll ever own a home again. Follow live. | | | | Australians are spending millions to create Peter Dutton's new Home Affairs Department, including $1.8 million for an "executive headquarters" a short drive from existing buildings, and $9,000 on new bookmarks. | | | | A Victorian coroner says a woman found dead in her garage after a reported weightlifting accident was likely the victim of a homicide. | | | | Police dashcam captures the moment a house is blown to pieces as police attend the scene of a car hitting a residential gas line in a southern US city. | | | | A medical examiner says a woman who was wearing a seatbelt suffered trauma to her head, neck and torso after a window she was sitting next to separated from the fuselage of a US airliner. | | | | The death of an American woman who was partially sucked out of a plane has stunned the world's flyers, frequent or otherwise. Here's an explanation of the "terrifying" forces involved. | | | | Councils across Australia will follow the city of Ipswich in scrapping their recycling programs because ratepayers won't cop higher rates as the cost continues to rise, the Local Government Association of Queensland warns. | | | | As Muslim women begin to tell their stories of divorce on social media, advocates — including Anne Aly, the first Muslim woman elected to Federal Parliament — are calling for broad cultural change. | | | | Australia's Chief of Army, Lieutenant General Angus Campbell, has banned the wearing of 'death' symbols within the Army because of their violent, murderous and vigilante symbolism. | | | | NBN Co updates its website to reveal which Australians are to be recipients of its fast, new fibre-to-the-curb connections. Find out if you're one of them. | | | | The effect of light exposure on mental and physical health is highlighted by new Australian research that suggests antidepressants could be less effective for night owls than for early risers. | | | | The Work for the Dole program is a "sham", putting young job seekers in unsafe and potentially deadly situations, say unions, lawyers and the family of a teenager who was killed on a Queensland worksite two years ago. | | | | Following unconfirmed reports Queen Elizabeth II's "last" Welsh corgi Willow has died, we take a look at how her enduring love of the breed led her to own more than 30 of the dogs. | | | | The live export industry performs a major retreat on animal welfare policy by endorsing a Labor proposal for an independent inspector to oversee the trade. | | | | A new generation of prospective Chinese diplomats is being encouraged to see China as a force for good, as opposed to "untrustworthy" Japan and "interfering" US, while maintaining "correct" thought above all else, writes Merriden Varrall. | | | | Residents say they have never seen so much tumbleweed, with the roaming plant covering some homes up to the second storey and filling backyards. | | | | Former FBI director James Comey tells 7.30 he believes Australia will continue to have a close relationship with the US due to the long-standing bonds between both nations. | | | | Sports announcer Darrell Eastlake, known for his booming voice and excitable personality, dies aged 75, Channel Nine announces. | | | | A man who crashed into a buffalo at night in the Northern Territory, killing the beast, is now looking for its head to mount as a memento. | |  |
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