| | | | Broadcaster Alan Jones denies a "bitter hatred" of a prominent Queensland family drove him to make defamatory comments about the group on multiple occasions spanning several years. | | | | Actor Craig McLachlan has "virtually no contact with friends, relatives or former entertainment colleagues" since the ABC and Fairfax published stories accusing him of misconduct, a court is told. | | | | There are dramatic scenes in court as Talal Alameddine, who supplied the gun used to kill police accountant Curtis Cheng, refuses to stand for the judge as he is jailed for at least 13 years. | | | | It feels like the whole world has Royal fever, but we can hear a lot of you screaming, "Who the hell CARES!?" Here's what those people told us. | | | | The British Government announces it will introduce maximum bets on poker machines to address problem gambling, limiting bets to $3.60 per spin — down from the current limit of $179. | | | | We have taken a wrong turn in the way that we think about nutrition. We are too obsessed with identifying an individual culprit — a specific nutrient that causes a particular health problem, like obesity — and not looking at the bigger picture, write David Raubenheimer and Stephen Simpson. | | | | Royal wedding 2.0 is nearly here, so let's travel back to the grand shebang that launched a thousand memes. | | | | A jury finds a Cape York man guilty of manslaughter for driving a ute into a house full of mourners and killing a woman at his wife's funeral in the Indigenous community of Kowanyama, after the court heard he suffered "extraordinary" provocation. | | | | Legendary Australian boxer Troy Waters, a former junior middleweight world title boxing contender, dies at the age of 53 following a long battle with leukaemia. | | | | Police confiscate 72 suitcases filled with cash, 284 designer handbags, jewellery and other valuables as part of a corruption and money-laundering investigation into former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak. | | | | Meghan Markle confirms her father Thomas won't be attending the Royal wedding, as she and Prince Harry arrive at Windsor Castle for rehearsals in the lead-up to the big day. | | | | The death of a young tourist who fell down a 40-metre cliff face while trying to take a photo prompts a warning for people to take care when searching for that perfect holiday shot for social media. | | | | The culture of cash payments in the hospitality business means long-term workers are often left with little or no superannuation — and the scale of the problem is hard to gauge, particularly because so many employers pay some, or all, wages in cash. | | | | A construction union official and former NRL star charged with blackmail during the trade unions royal commission receives a payout courtesy of the Australian Federal Police, who he took to court claiming he was maliciously prosecuted. | | | | A car owned by former Essendon coach James Hird is stolen during an overnight robbery at his Toorak home, but his family is unhurt. | | | | Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has spewed ash more than 9 kilometres into the air, prompting scientists to warn this could be the first of a string of explosive eruptions in the crater. | | | | Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding cake will have an "ethereal" taste and an unusual display, according to its master baker. | | | | Chinese state media weighs in on Canberra-Beijing relations again, saying its relationship with Australia does not "carry much weight" — but how much attention should we give these attacks? | | | | Parents will soon be unable to buy their teenager a beer or a glass of wine with their restaurant dinner in Victoria, as the Andrews Government moves to ban the practice. | | | | Can Harry and Meghan dethrone other Royal couples to become king and queen of TV ratings? | | | | Chinese authorities in the heavily Muslim region of Xinjiang imprison tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of Muslim Chinese — and even foreign citizens — in mass internment camps. | | | | 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. | |  |
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