| | | | Fair Work commissioner Donna McKenna says the advice she received from financial planner Sam Henderson would have cost her about $500,000 in lost super if she had followed it. Follow our banking royal commission live blog. | | | | Witnesses say the driver of a rental van that slammed into people on a busy Toronto footpath appeared to make no effort to stop but officials say it is too soon to determine if the incident was an act of terrorism. | | | | A woman who suffered second-degree burns when a flight attendant spilt boiling water on her legs says staff did nothing to help her and the airline has since failed to pay her medical expenses. | | | | Just hours after the birth of her third child, the Duchess of Cambridge returned home to Kensington Palace. But royal expert Giselle Bastin says it's unlikely Catherine will be out of action for long. | | | | A patron produces a Crown Casino-branded plastic "pick", which she alleges was used to illegally jam poker machine buttons in place in the Melbourne casino. It follows allegations from former staff of pokie tampering. | | | | The Federal Government awards a $6 million grant to a gas producer wholly owned by a massive Chinese company said to have close links to the country's Communist Party. | | | | The priceless 16th-century casket containing Anne of Brittany's embalmed heart was stolen earlier this month, fuelling fears it could be melted down. | | | | A ni-Vanuatu boy who captured online attention after progressing into the final stages of a local surfing competition with an old, duct-taped surfboard is gifted a new board from a fellow surf enthusiast in New Zealand. | | | | Wollongong man Jae Haydon, 35, dies after surfing reportedly "giant waves" near Uluwatu — a well-known break. His broken board washed up on a nearby beach late yesterday. | | | | The new Royal Adelaide Hospital has been beset by complaints over bland, poor quality and late meal deliveries since opening its doors to patients in September. | | | | A Queensland policeman punched his 10-week-old baby son in the stomach so hard it ruptured organs and caused fatal injuries because he was "intensely frustrated", a court hears. | | | | An investigation into sexual harassment allegations against Robert Doyle has not reached any final conclusions because the former Melbourne lord mayor is too ill to respond. | | | | Millionaire property developer Medich rubbed shoulders with the powerful, even bribing them with prostitutes, but paid the ultimate price for his ruthless and seedy method of business involving an execution-style murder. | | | | A highly carcinogenic virus affecting thousands of Australians and dating back 9,000 years, needs to have a coordinated public health response, researchers say. | | | | A woman who stabbed her flatmate eight times before licking his blood from the murder weapon and saying "now you see what I'm capable of", is jailed for at least 20 years in South Australia. | | | | The son of a Changi prisoner-of-war believes the wrong flag is flying during our annual commemorations. | | | | A palliative care unit isn't where you expect to go on vacation, but the developers of a planned $100 million resort on Tasmania's east coast say there's a market in China for somewhere to go that's "peaceful and quiet". | | | | A group of young people film themselves stealing wreaths and flowers that had been placed by schoolchildren at an Anzac memorial in Melbourne's east. | | | | Did you know there's a "man drought" on? Or that in some places those who don't have a partner are known as "leftover women"? Yep, it's a jungle out there. | | | | Most people tend to think of autism as a disorder that affects boys and men, but psychologists now believe that girls with autism may simply be better at hiding in plain sight. | | | | Former US president George HW Bush was admitted to hospital the day after his wife's funeral, where attendees included George W Bush, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and current First Lady Melania Trump. | | | | Indonesian police say they have worked with the AFP to unravel a people-smuggling network that was aimed at bringing in fake Rohingya refugees to Australia. | | | | At just 18 years of age, Chinese-Australian Kathleen Quan Mane joined the Air Force as a codebreaker — despite her father being treated as a "foreigner and enemy" and her mother's citizenship having been revoked. | |  |
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