| | | | Queensland's former electoral commissioner, Walter van der Merwe, was drunk in the workplace, absent without reasonable excuse, and seen in a compromising position of a "sexual nature" with an employee, an investigation finds. | | | | Commercial barramundi fishermen say their industry has all but collapsed in Australia, after the price for wild-caught fish plummeted this season. | | | | Meghan Markle has faced plenty of venom on both sides of the Atlantic, in the form of racism, slights on her acting career and even criticism she callously left her rescue dog behind in the rush to shack up with Prince Harry, writes Micheline Maynard. | | | | Productivity around the world took a massive dive yesterday when everyone started debating "Yanny" or "Laurel". Here's how it all began. | | | | A Canberra woman who was hit by a car while removing a kangaroo from the road sparks warnings from park rangers about what to do when you hit an animal. | | | | A Canadian-born man with an intellectual disability protests he is an "Aussie" — born to an Australian mother and living here since he was three years old — as his appeal against deportation is dismissed. | | | | After a contentious line call arguably costs her the match at the Italian Open, Karolina Pliskova takes a chunk out of the umpire's chair by smashing her racquet against it after offering a fake handshake to the official. | | | | The broadcaster denies calling a Queensland family murderers in the wake of the deadly 2011 Grantham floods, as he gives evidence during his multi-million-dollar trial. | | | | Carlton's Ed Curnow is suspended for one match following a successful AFL appeal against his tribunal verdict but his younger brother Charlie is free to play for the Blues this weekend. | | | | The lack of incentives offered by Australia to lure big spending streaming service companies like Netflix could leave the country behind in the revolution, industry members warn. | | | | Federal Liberal MP Ann Sudmalis declares she is doing a "damn good job" in her marginal seat of Gilmore, as she fends off a potential preselection challenge from a local real estate agent. | | | | It's been noted as one of the ironies of the dual citizenship crisis that has engulfed Canberra over the past year: those deciding on the fate of lawmakers - the justices of the High Court - can themselves hold foreign passports. And Fact Check found that this difference in standards checks out. | | | | Garry Smith was shocked to find the term "Aboriginal" had been wiped from some of his family's birth, death and marriage certificates — now he wants an apology and the practice stopped. | | | | In a bid to save central Australia's native mammal populations from being decimated by feral cats, conservationists are building the largest cat-free zone in the world. | | | | Donald Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, represents a classic and quintessentially New York tale — that of the hungry and determined fixer prepared to do whatever it takes to make problems disappear. | | | | A Victorian coroner says the husband of an expectant mother found dead in her garage after a reported weightlifting accident will not be compelled to give evidence at the inquest into her death. | | | | A secret interview between the Australian former foreign minister and FBI agents laid the foundation for special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into possible Russian meddling in the US election, according to the New York Times. | | | | A damning report finds WA's $300 million art collection is at risk of damage or loss — and the Art Gallery itself conceded it has recognised some "critical" issues. | | | | Royal wedding fashion is in a class of its own, especially when it comes to the hats which have more in common with a chicken than you'd think. | | | | After 15 parliamentarians were brought down by a tricky section of the constitution, a bipartisan parliamentary committee wants a referendum to change it. Here's how likely that is to actually happen. | | | | If you want to save money on petrol you keep on driving past the big guys, according to the ACCC. | | | | The winding roads and side streets that make up Sydney's modern metropolis could have been based on the original tracks and pathways created by Aboriginal people long before the First Fleet. Curious Sydney investigates. | | | | Scientists scanning the bottom of Bass Strait in a "lawn-mowing" operation stumble on an uncharted 1890 shipwreck and a story along with it. | |  |
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