| | A 39-year-old mother accused of drugging and sexually abusing her eight-year-old daughter at so-called "swinging" group sex parties in Perth is charged with a further 81 child sex offences against a total of three children, including her own son. | | | The results are in: Tesla's giant battery is responding faster and more precisely than traditional coal and gas generators to stabilise the national energy grid, according to a new report. | | | Australia, meet Anna Hursey — a shy, unassuming girl who at the age of just 11 is a full international representative for Wales in women's table tennis. | | | Police charge a 52-year-old man from Mauritius over an alleged assault on a 26-year-old woman on the Gold Coast last week. | | | Proposed changes to federal electoral boundaries — including the creation of a seat named after former PM Malcolm Fraser — effectively wipe out the Liberal Government's majority, election analyst Antony Green says. | | | As the royal commission closes in on irresponsible lending, analysts look at the parts of the loan calculation that might change and it's got nothing to do with your income or how much you've saved as a deposit. | | | Royal commissioner Kenneth Hayne asked the rhetorical but very loaded question — "who do mortgage brokers work for?". Daniel Ziffer says the answer depends very much on who you ask. | | | Four Victoria Police officers are suspended and one is assigned to alternative duties after video shows the alleged use of excessive force on three occasions. | | | A convincing case has not been made that Australian police need more widespread access to military-style rifles, writes Terry Goldsworthy. | | | Priyanka Tamaychekar knows every detail of the dignity-stripping sequence of events that will take place in her first few hours as a newlywed. She will refuse the "test" and face the consequences. | | | People making their way through Perth's new Yagan Square — billed as the "heart of the city" — are left shocked as an internet-connected electronic sign starts displaying the homepage of a pornography site. | | | A fisherman finds himself stranded on a sandbank for two nights before calling in a helicopter to lift his boat back into the water. | | | The parent company of poultry giant Steggles launches an investigation into allegations that baby chickens were buried alive during the clean-up of a truck rollover near Yass, north of Canberra. | | | Richard Branson's company, which plans to take tourists into space from its 'Spaceport America' in New Mexico, launches its first rocket since a pilot was killed in a 2014 crash. | | | Clive Palmer claims he is the victim of a political witch hunt and says he will fight charges over an alleged corporate breach that was uncovered in an investigation by the business watchdog ASIC. | | | You may have heard that when neurons die, they're not replaced. Some neuroscientists agree, but others think the opposite. | | | The US woman and her family are said to be "suffering immeasurably" after discovering through an online ancestry website that the man had secretly fathered her. | | | Yulia Skripal makes her first public comment since being poisoned in Britain last month along with her ex-Russian spy father Sergei, as Russian state TV airs a recording of a phone call purportedly between Ms Skripal and her cousin. | | | A man who murdered his partner and her two children at a property in Adelaide's north is sentenced to at least 30 years in jail, with a judge describing the crime as "difficult to comprehend". | | | The Agriculture Department threatens to block a shipment of more than 60,000 sheep from leaving Fremantle unless the company responsible deals with allegations of animal welfare abuses. | | | Cricket Australia chairman David Peever says James Sutherland has done "an outstanding job" and retains the "full support" of the board amid calls for his resignation over the ball-tampering scandal. | | | When Mark was 14, he started using drugs as an escape. Six weeks ago, the Tasmanian father-of-four discovered the body of a friend who had overdosed in his apartment. Mark doesn't want to die, he wants to live to see his kids again. | | | UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor surrenders to police, after being accused of causing chaos at Brooklyn's Barclays Center by gate-crashing a media event and trying to attack a van of other fighters. | | | By Leigh Tabrett | | | By Daniel Ziffer, reporter, The Business | | | By Terry Goldsworthy | | | By Washington bureau chief Zoe Daniel | | | | | The ABC sent this message to starnewsposting@gmail.com these details are included to help provide assurance that this is a genuine email from ABC.
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