| | | | Prison authorities in two states and the Northern Territory lost track of criminals when recent Telstra outages caused their electronic monitoring devices to fail, the ABC has learned. | | | | The most senior Catholic to be charged with concealing child sexual abuse — Adelaide's Archbishop Philip Wilson — is found guilty by a New South Wales court, in a landmark ruling. | | | | Pauline Hanson says Finance Minister Mathias Cormann's Government has "let him down", as she withdraws One Nation's support for proposed tax changes. | | | | A woman who stabbed her cousin to death in Sydney's south and then told a triple-0 operator she was checking for a pulse when she was actually cleaning the knives is sentenced to more than six years in jail. | | | | Garry Robinson walks free after pleading guilty to falsifying Commonwealth documents that allowed 22,000 sheep to be imported into Pakistan, where they were brutally killed in vision that shocked Australia. | | | | A former midwife has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter charges over the deaths of two babies during home-birth deliveries in South Australia. | | | | What race is Meghan Markle? The world has seemed obsessed with the question. Yet we are all mixed race, so it's time to let go of this reductive question, writes Stan Grant. | | | | Despite a declaration from Peter Dutton earlier this year that persecuted white South African farmers deserved "special attention" from Australia, officials from his department say there has been no direction from the Home Affairs Minister to prioritise visa applications. | | | | This week citizens in Ireland — once considered the most Catholic country in the world, with 90 per cent of people attending mass — vote on whether to liberalise strict abortion laws, and the result is expected to be close. | | | | Former Queensland premier Campbell Newman is standing by a series of tweets he made about police "creating total and utter chaos" around the Brisbane CBD when responding to a pedestrian hit and killed by a bus this morning. | | | | Australian author Colleen McCullough wrote a new will leaving her multi-million-dollar estate to her husband, rather than a university in the United States, a NSW court hears. | | | | I was first objectified by a stranger on the street at age 11, and since then have faced everything from men masturbating on front of me in public and male drivers following me home. Why do we accept harassment as the normal part of a girl's experience of growing up? | | | | Police on Manus Island say a refugee has died in a "very unfortunate" apparent suicide. | | | | Sweden will send out instructions to its citizens next week on how to cope with an outbreak of war, as the country faces an assertive Russia across the Baltic Sea. | | | | The royal commission hears how banks pay scant regard to business plans as long as there is residential property to secure the commercial loans. | | | | The Government says it is cutting the permanent migration program, but temporary visa holders in Australia are at a record high and include 37,000 mystery holders whose nationality is unknown. | | | | Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's official wedding photographs are released, with one UK tabloid hailing them as the "boldest and most intimate" Royal wedding portraits ever. | | | | Mile Jedinak co-signs a letter telling FIFA it would be "plainly wrong" to stop Paolo Guerrero from playing in the World Cup next month on the basis of findings the Peru captain did not intend to cheat. | | | | Foster carers are calling for state care to be extended from 18 to 21, saying hundreds of kids are being left homeless and jobless each year under the current system. | | | | If the FFA thinks the A-League has a problem with flares, they might want to cast their eyes to Serbia, where a Red Star Belgrade player, rather than a fan, unwittingly set fire to the team bus during a victory parade. | | | | You won't bee-lieve how many bees Australia has exported to Canada in the past four years. | | | | A mother and her infant child were sleeping in a front room of the house at the time of the blast, which is believed to be the first hand grenade explosion investigated in Victoria's history. | | | | Hillary Clinton has never been afraid to call out Vladimir Putin, but she never expected Russia's vengeance to be so damaging. | |  |
By Matter of Fact host Stan Grant | |  |
By Adam Watkins | |  |
By Lauren Lancaster | |  |
By Stephanie Collins | | | | | | | The ABC sent this message to starnewsposting@gmail.com these details are included to help provide assurance that this is a genuine email from ABC.
Any personal details and data acquired by the ABC from your participation in any ABC Online Services will be used only in accordance with the ABC's Privacy Policy.
This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. | | | | | |
0 comments:
Post a Comment