| | | | French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe delivered words so beautiful and evocative they forced a collective intake of breath as he opened the Sir John Monash Centre, writes Lisa Millar. | | | | Malcolm Turnbull praises the feats of Australian troops in the battle to re-take the French village of Villers-Bretonneux exactly a century ago, while the feats of the Anzacs were also remembered on the shores of Gallipoli. | | | | Former prime minister Kevin Rudd slams the US move to withdraw its nominated ambassador to Canberra and send him to South Korea instead, saying it shows Donald Trump does not take the alliance with Australia seriously. | | | | WA Deputy Premier Roger Cook calls on the City of Perth to reconsider hundreds of parking fines issued to people attending the Anzac Day Dawn Service at Kings Park this morning after a deluge of public criticism towards the council. | | | | Sister Patricia Fox has been given a deportation order to leave the country she has lived in for 27 years after being accused of actively and openly campaigning against the Philippines government. | | | | Collingwood and Essendon meet at the MCG for the now-traditional Anzac Day clash, with both sides looking for their third win of the season. Get scores, stats and streams in our live ScoreCentre. | | | | Psychotic disorders are severe mental health condition and there's consistent evidence showing a link between heavy or repeated cannabis use and an experience of psychosis for the first time, write Jerome Sarris and Joe Firth. | | | | China's first home-built aircraft carrier is set to begin its maiden sea trial, demonstrating the country's growing naval capabilities as the country inches closer to its ambitions of building "a mighty people's navy". | | | | Tim Cahill's hopes of some much-needed game time before the start of the World Cup are handed a blow after he is slugged with a three-game suspension for elbowing an opponent in the neck. | | | | Alek Minassian, 25, suspected of killing 10 people and injuring more than a dozen others when he ploughed a rental van into pedestrians in Toronto, left a "cryptic message" on social media before his attack, police say. | | | | Wally Scott-Smith's attempt to join the Tank Corps in the 1930s was thwarted by bowel cancer, but, determined to serve, he has kept watch over Sydney's cenotaph for almost eight decades. | | | | A teenage girl is taken to hospital in a serious condition after being shot in the leg when someone opened fire on the western Sydney garage she was sitting in, with neighbours reporting hearing "five or six" bangs. | | | | Ayla Holdom was open with her military colleagues about being transgender. But when she was invited to Prince William's wedding, a friend betrayed her to the British tabloids. | | | | Gray died of multiple myeloma on Tuesday, his brother and fellow band member Mark Gray says in a statement. | | | | The leaders of North and South Korea will meet face-to-face for the first time this Friday. The behind-the-scenes preparations are leaving no detail up to chance. | | | | Broome's famous Cable Beach is closed to swimmers after a woman was stung by an irukandji — one of the deadliest jellyfish in the world, whose sting induces excruciating pain and a sense of impending doom. | | | | The former head of Unions WA overcame a childhood dominated by a notorious father to become the man leading mass protests against industrial reforms in the 1990s. | | | | US President Donald Trump's proposed ambassador to Australia will be pulled from the post in a surprise move to beef up the US diplomatic presence on the Korean peninsula. | | | | Port Adelaide midfielder Sam Powell-Pepper will miss a third consecutive game, after the AFL found he inappropriately touched a woman at an Adelaide bar while he was drunk. | | | | A man aged in his 40s dies and two other people are hospitalised after a boat capsizes in Bate Bay at Cronulla. | | | | Kids' muscles resist fatigue and recover from heavy exercise in a similar way to those of elite endurance athletes, a new study suggests. | | | | It's becoming a common sight in Melbourne's cafes — that little note next to the till, or at the bottom of the menu, advising customers of a public holiday surcharge. But some hospitality workers say this charge, which is supposed to fund penalty rates for staff, is often going straight into employers' pockets. | | | | Melbourne boasts the fastest-growing suburb in the country and the city's population is now just 200,000 below that of Sydney's, which itself saw a record an annual increase of more than 100,000 people. | |  |
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