| | | | Some Afghanistan war veterans and families of soldiers who died there have accused the founder of a veterans' charity of spending thousands of dollars on funding treks and adventures, instead of helping soldiers in need of professional counselling and rehabilitation. | | | | A whistleblower from within one of Australia's most powerful institutions speaks out about the toxic culture in the Tax Office that encourages debt collectors to seize bank accounts of small businesses in order to raise revenue. | | | | A joint investigation by Four Corners and Fairfax Media has exposed disturbing behaviour within the Tax Office, sparking calls for more oversight and accountability. But what exactly can the Tax Office do — and how does it differ to other Commonwealth agencies? | | | | In a moment befitting the 'Friendly Games' moniker that is always associated with the Commonwealth Games, three Australians wait to hug the last runner to finish the women's 10,000 metres. | | | | Parts of Australia have received huge amounts of rain recently, so after it pours, what happens to all that water? | | | | The threat of war in space is no longer just the stuff of science fiction, according to academics who are warning of the inevitability of armed conflict beyond Earth. | | | | Mark Zuckerberg is used to tech conferences where the speaker sets the tone and the questioners are often friendly, but his appearance on Capitol Hill in front of furious politicians will be a far cry from that. | | | | US federal agents raid the offices of Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen and seize documents which Mr Cohen's lawyer Stephen Ryan says are "in part" related to the Mueller investigation. | | | | When it comes to flu, everybody has their own avoidance tactics, but are they in line with how the influenza virus is transmitted between people? | | | | Across the world a shift towards climate change litigation is gathering steam as low-lying island countries and even United States' cities take aim at governments and big oil companies for failing to act proportionately to reduce carbon emissions. | | | | Bronte Campbell has often fallen in the shadow of her older sister Cate, but got some of her own sibling rivalry medicine back with a powerful 100m freestyle performance. | | | | Melbourne man Raffaele Di Paolo pleaded guilty last week to abusing patients while practising as a specialist without qualifications. What drives fraudsters to pose as doctors, and how do they get away with it? Philippa Martyr explains. | | | | Four people survive a horror car crash in the British city of Leeds that saw the vehicle impaled by multiple pieces of timber after hitting a fence. | | | | Barnaby Joyce says the Prime Minister should consider relinquishing the leadership if he doesn't lift the Coalition's poll numbers by Christmas — on the same day Malcolm Turnbull hit 30 consecutive Newspoll losses. | | | | A former Cosby Show actress with "Women's lives matter" written on her torso strips off her top and confronts comedian Bill Cosby as he arrives in court for the start of his retrial on sexual assault charges. | | | | Despite the similarities to another US attack, the Pentagon says it is not behind the missile strike on the Syrian air base near Damascus — and it's very likely to be telling the truth, Anne Barker writes. | | | | When Falls Festival's recent line-up failed to put a female act in a headliner spot, Camp Cope had something to say about it. Now, on the eve of Splendour's 2018 bill being announced, the Melbourne band wants the industry to know women in music expect equality. | |  |
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