| | | | The Australian Cricketers' Association questions the process that led Steve Smith and Cameron Bancroft to face a press conference "minutes after leaving the field" over the ball-tampering incident in South Africa. | | | | When John installed a CCTV system at his house he thought it was to capture robbers — not police. But that's what he got when officers dragged him into his front yard and pinned him to the ground. | | | | Margot Pegum weighed 109 kilograms and had a BMI of 46 when she underwent a procedure to have a saline-filled balloon inserted into her stomach in an attempt to lose weight, but the 68-year-old died just three months later after complications from the surgery, an inquest into her death hears. | | | | Channel Nine is heavily criticised by officials and remains banned from the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games until after Wednesday night's opening ceremony, after breaching strict broadcasting rules. | | | | A fisherman visiting from Melbourne recalls his encounter with a great white shark in South Australian waters on the weekend which left police abandoning plans to breath-test him. | | | | The South African Government is considering a statement from the Prime Minister to be a retraction of Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton's comments regarding "persecuted" white South African farmers, but Mr Dutton does not agree. | | | | Australians love online shopping, but they're not so happy about the way parcels are being delivered by the national postal service, with the issue dominating the more than 1 million complaints made to Australia Post last financial year. | | | | Facebook has failed to protect its users' data. Apple only serves rich people. That's essentially the war of words between Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook. | | | | Fresh details of a malfunction that led to the deaths of four people on Dreamworld's Thunder River Rapids ride in 2016 are revealed in a court hearing ahead of an inquest expected to run for the rest of the year. | | | | Despite mounting evidence the RBA was losing faith in its GDP forecasts, interest rates have remained on hold again. | | | | Former federal Labor leader and US ambassador Kim Beazley is announced as the 33rd governor of Western Australia, capping a distinguished political career that included a stint as deputy prime minister. | | | | An Ipswich man is remanded in custody on a string of weapons, drugs and explosives charges after the discovery of four homemade bombs in a car and at his home. | | | | Ethan Couch kills four pedestrians as a 16-year-old drunk driver, dodges federal prison after a claim his crime was a result of his entitled upbringing, violates his probation and is sent to low-security jail. Now, he has been freed and community groups are calling it a "grave injustice". | | | | Paedophiles, rapists and sex offenders are being granted working with children checks by appealing to Victoria's civil tribunal, an ABC investigation reveals. | | | | Mexican towns are playing host to a more than 1,200 Central American migrants heading to the US border where some will apply for asylum and others will attempt to sneak into the United States, defying the US President who says they must be stopped. | | | | Alarms are ringing in diplomatic and foreign policy circles over the prospect of US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meeting at the White House. | | | | Donald Trump kicked off this year's Easter Egg Roll with an awkward speech standing next to a giant white rabbit — allowing photographers to continue a long tradition of capturing surreal photos of the event. | | | | What goes into manufacturing the various textiles we wear and how do the environmental impacts of each compare? | | | | Human rights abuses might be embedded in the business model that has evolved for social media companies in their second decade, writes Sarah Joseph. | | | | They're big, strong and smarter than your dog. Now experts are saying rogue hunters are illegally spreading feral pigs even further for sport. | | | | Australian wheelchair racing champion Kurt Fearnley has had the Commonwealth Games in his diary since organisers told him about their vision of an inclusive event, one where para-athletes would have equal billing. | | | | Australia's second largest oil and gas producer Santos receives a conditional takeover bid at a 30 per cent premium to recent trading and the company says "it is in the interests of shareholders to engage". | | | | Tropical Cyclone Iris intensifies to a category two system as it continues to hover off the north Queensland coast, and is on track to become a category three on Wednesday. | | | | The blue behemoth is located more than halfway around the universe, is a million times more luminous than our sun and, according to its discoverers, gives us a glimpse back in time. | |  |
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