| | | | Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush is virtually housebound, barely eats and is taking medication for anxiety, according to documents filed in a defamation lawsuit against The Daily Telegraph newspaper. | | | | A Tasmanian man who worked under the name "DJ Funknukl" is sentenced to six months' jail for headbutting former prime minister Tony Abbott on the Hobart waterfront last year. | | | | Donald Trump says he is trying to even up the trade ledger with China, but the rapidly escalating number of tariff proposals is more likely to make all nations worse off, including Australia. | | | | New Zealand's transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard withdraws from competition in the women's +90kg weightlifting final after pulling up with injury. | | | | Syrian state TV says missiles have hit a regime airfield near the city of Homs, but the Pentagon denies reports the US is behind the attacks after Donald Trump said Syria would pay a "big price" for the apparent use of poison gas on a rebel-held town. | | | | An outer Melbourne councillor who holds the Indigenous Support portfollio apologises after referring to an alleged victim of police brutality as "chocolate lips" in a post on Facebook which has since been deleted. | | | | From broken PTSD 'leper' who served in five overseas deployments, to champion of veterans' rights, this is how former commando Mick Bainbridge transformed his life. | | | | Australia has more golden moments in lawn bowls and gymnastics on day five of the Commonwealth Games. | | | | One of the world's leading education experts says NAPLAN writing tests are absurd and are turning Australian children into bad writers, so he's created a guide he says can help students get top marks. | | | | Justin Trudeau joins the public mourning for 15 members of a small-town ice hockey team killed when their bus collided with a truck. | | | | Mark Freeman had won research and development grants for the sewage recycling technology he pioneered. Then his troubles with the Tax Office began. | | | | The Federal Government and Opposition resist calls for a ban on live exports amid revelations of thousands of sheep are dying in inhumane conditions. | | | | Lawyers for the world's most senior Catholic to be charged with covering up abuse — the Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson — fight to have the case thrown out for a fourth time in a Newcastle court. | | | | Video shows onlookers crying out as the 53-metre-high silo topples the wrong way and onto a building that houses a local library and music school. | | | | On the day Malcolm Turnbull hit the benchmark of 30 consecutive Newspoll losses, he admits regret over using the figure when pushing Tony Abbott out of the nation's top job. | | | | Linc Energy is found guilty of wilfully causing serious environmental harm at its underground coal gasification plant and allowing operations in Queensland to continue for commercial gain. | | | | The actress, who rose to prominence playing Claire Standish in one of the most famous teen movies of all time, says the film and others by John Hughes from the 1980s had some problematic depictions of sexual relations. | | | | Last month, the Australian Medical Association urged people to hold off on getting this year's flu vaccine, warning some pharmacies were offering it too early. So when is the right time? | | | | Belgian cyclist Michael Goolaerts, 23, dies in hospital after crashing during the Paris-Roubaix, one of cycling's toughest races. | | | | Ferrari says a mechanic likely sustained a "shinbone and fibula fracture" after he was struck by Kimi Raikkonen's car during a botched tyre change at the Bahrain grand prix. | |  |
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