| | | | Five by-elections will be held on July 28, but candidates will be asked to declare their family history and other personal details in the hopes of ending the constitutional crisis once and for all. | | | | Sydney grandmother Maria Exposto is found guilty of drug trafficking charges in Malaysia and will face the death penalty. | | | | A transcript of an interview by Labor frontbencher Linda Burney was distributed to journalists littered with errors and omissions, but the party says it was an "honest mistake". | | | | It was only to be expected that Parliament, being a hothouse of double-crossing, suspicious and paranoid politicians, would generate a few theories about what motivated Liberal MP Andrew Hastie to do what he did on Tuesday night. | | | | Mark van Dongen took his own life by voluntary euthanasia 15 months after his ex-girlfriend disfigured his body with sulphuric acid in a premeditated attack. | | | | Australia has 16 extra billionaires this year, taking the total to a record 76, with carboard and recycling magnate Anthony Pratt again topping the list of the nation's wealthiest. | | | | Mathew Vickers was on a research trip funded and conducted by James Cook University when a grey reef shark ripped into his arm, but the hospitalisation and stitches he needed were not funded by university insurance — and as a volunteer, he was not insured under WorkCover. | | | | A serial rapist who dragged a 13-year-old girl from the safety of her home into bushland and subjected her to a "cruel and degrading" sexual assault in WA's Mid West almost 25 years ago is jailed for more than 12 years. | | | | Darryl Clinton was hit by a flying "lava bomb" while trying to protect homes from Hawaii's erupting Kilauea volcano. Here's what they are, and how it felt to be hit by one. | | | | More clues about the use of magic by Australia's early settlers are revealed in an almanac from 1811 and on the walls of Tasmania's old buildings. | | | | Journalist Stan Grant has argued that we need to stop talking about Meghan Markle's "mixed race" identity. But our society still categorises people according to race — and we need to discuss this, writes Timothy Kazuo Steains. | | | | Danish researchers unearth thousands of bones in a dig that sheds light on the strange aftermath of a bloody Iron Age battle that happened around 2,000 years ago. | | | | SA's Liberal Government will push ahead with a Labor plan to install battery systems built by Elon Musk's Tesla in 50,000 homes, with Whyalla steelworks boss Sanjeev Gupta also announcing ambitious new energy plans, including an electric car plant. | | | | A US jury awards a $1.3 billion dollar verdict against a security company after an apartment complex guard is convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl. | | | | The confrontation between artist Kendrick Lamar and a white fan over the N-word forces all of us to meet at the crossroad of free speech and common sense, writes Denise Clay. | | | | An illegible page on David Leyonhjelm's register of interests was belatedly replaced, revealing the key crossbench senator as an investor in the Adani Abbot Point coal terminal. | | | | Citing Indigenous NRL star Johnathan Thurston and "two senior ministers who are clearly not white Australian males", an LNP senator suggests racism is not a big enough issue in Australia to warrant a race discrimination commissioner role. | | | | Locals in the town of Peterborough say they have never seen anything like it before — emus in packs patrolling local paddocks and wandering the streets. | | | | Think you know what teachers go through on a daily basis when they're shaping young minds and redirecting moral compasses? Well chances are you don't; school has changed a bit since you were there, writes Daniel Steel. | | | | North Korea says recent comments by US Vice-President Mike Pence were "stupid" and "ignorant", and warns of a "nuclear showdown" if talks with the US fail. | | | | Australians are being gouged by under-regulated monopolistic airports abusing their market power, according to former competition watchdog boss Graeme Samuel. | | | | Health warnings similar to those used on cigarette packets could be an effective way of helping people make healthier food choices, a study finds. | | | | Despite being found to have acted unconscionably, Westpac scores a number of legal victories after splitting from the other big banks and defending ASIC's accusations of rate rigging. | | | | As Russia prepares for a month-long festival of football, the Australian families of MH17 victims publish a letter in a Russian news service blaming their authorities for the disaster. | | | | Disenchantment, a fantasy adult comedy following the exploits of a "hard-drinking young princess" and her elf and demon companions, will air on Netflix in August. | |  |
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