| | | | Seven people, including four children, are found dead at a rural property near Margaret River in Western Australia's South West, in a murder-suicide that is the worst mass shooting in Australia since Port Arthur. | | | | As the floodwaters in Hobart recede and the rain heads to the north-east of Tasmania, the Insurance Council declares a catastrophe and one company says the bill will top $1 million. | | | | A Melbourne woman is sentenced to five years' jail for the manslaughter of her abusive partner, who died after she drove her car at him, hitting a parking sign that fell on his head. | | | | Yvette Coppersmith was rebuffed when she asked to paint New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern's portrait, and settled on a self-portrait instead. It just won this year's Archibald Prize. | | | | Parts of Gippsland in eastern Victoria are expected to get a month's worth of rain on Saturday as a low pressure system crosses the state, bringing with it high winds and intense rainfall. | | | | The retreat of investors from the property market is starting to look like a rout, with a big fall in applications in March as the impact of tighter lending rules for investors takes a big bite out the mortgage market. | | | | A wave reaching nearly 24 metres, measured by a solar-powered buoy near New Zealand's Campbell Island, is believed to be the largest ever recorded in the southern hemisphere. | | | | Was it delicious or malicious timing from the High Court to screw over the Government's post-budget sales pitch by dropping its citizenship ruling hours after the Treasurer's address? | | | | Federal Labor MP Anne Aly has released a letter showing she was clear of dual citizenship when she ran for Parliament. | | | | Police in Papua New Guinea believe a fisherman has disturbed a drug-running operation after finding nearly 60 kilograms of what's suspected to be illicit drugs buried on a remote beach. | | | | The Fremantle Dockers apologise to the former employee at the centre of a sexual harassment claim against Ross Lyon for the "stress and duress" caused by the incident. | | | | A far-right activist who ambushed former Labor senator Sam Dastyari for a social media video will have to pay $10,000 if he uploads any more content featuring his former employer, Toll Transport. | | | | As a symbol of the nation, Captain James Cook has always been contested. Little wonder the Government's $48.7 million allocation to commemorating 250 years since his voyage to Australia has stirred controversy, writes Tracy Ireland. | | | | The sibling of a two-year-old girl who was allegedly raped in the Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek had also been suspected of being sexually assaulted years earlier, a Children's Commissioner report shows. | | | | The man entered his PIN rather than the amount due on e-payment platform Alipay, and only found out about it a month later. | | | | In future, average tax rates will still be higher for most taxpayers under Turnbull's tax plan, but there's one exception: the top 10 per cent of income earners, write John Daley and Danielle Wood. | | | | As authorities scramble to remove around 190,000 litres of highly flammable liquid from a geothermal plant, after a fissure opened nearby, they warn the Kilauea volcano could hurl fridge-sized boulders if an eruption occurs. | | | | A Chinese television network is banned from broadcasting the Eurovision song contest after it censors two countries' performances and blurs out rainbow flags. | | | | "Boys will be boys" is a familiar catch-cry, but now some researchers say we're facing a masculinity issue and are calling for a rethink of how we raise young men. | | | | The story of the 104-year-old Perth academic — one of the first Australians to undertake assisted suicide due to old age rather than a terminal illness — has attracted international headlines and inflamed a highly divisive debate. | |  |
By political reporter Matthew Doran | |  |
By John Daley and Danielle Wood | |  |
By Tracy Ireland | |  |
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