| | | | Victims of institutional child sexual abuse are one step closer to receiving compensation, after the Catholic Church announced it would sign up to the national redress scheme. | | | | The Federal Court has issued a subpoena requiring Jobs Minister Michaelia Cash to give evidence in the Australian Workers Union raids case, but she says she has instructed her lawyers to have the subpoena set aside. | | | | Roseanne Barr says losing a television show is nothing compared to being labelled a racist "over one tweet", as the fallout from her social media comment continues. | | | | From calling Hillary Clinton "anti-Semitic" to promoting videos about Pizzagate, Roseanne Barr's Twitter feed has an eyebrow-raising history. | | | | The youngest of three girls whose life story inspired the award-winning film Rabbit-Proof Fence dies at the age of 95 in the traditional country to which she trekked 1,600km as a child to return. | | | | The skeleton of a man crushed by an enormous stone while trying to flee the explosion of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD is uncovered in a dramatic discovery at the Pompeii archaeological site. | | | | A woman who allegedly kidnapped her two daughters in 2014, after claiming they were abused by their father, seemed a "very together, normal person", her supporters say. | | | | Thredbo announces it is banning the popular winter pastime, sparking social media outrage and questions about the resorts motives. | | | | A jury finds a young Queensland kindergarten teacher not guilty of indecently touching a four-year-old boy's genitals while helping him change out of wet clothes. | | | | Miniature fox terrier Rosa's owners thought they would never see their dog again. But a new microchip database came to the rescue. | | | | A man detained by police for eight days over an alleged terror plot to bring down an Etihad plane clears his name, after the "weapon" he was charged with possessing turns out to be a modified fly swat he used to light his barbeque. | | | | A move to import the French-made shotgun with a new fast fire and reload mechanism is met with opposition. But a rifle version is already available in Australia. It's called the Verney-Carron Speedline. | | | | The Commonwealth Bank's chief risk officer admits some business loan customers were treated unfairly by its subsidiary Bankwest. | | | | Siya Kolisi is a natural choice to lead South Africa in their series against England but, 24 years after the end of apartheid, more work is still needed to widen opportunities for non-white players. | | | | Blackface, unacknowledged children, and street cred — the latest feud involving Drake, one of the world's biggest artists, is a complicated one. Here's what you need to know. | | | | Tax Office boss Chris Jordan attacks a joint Four Corners and Fairfax investigation as offensive and inaccurate, making it clear his staff are not "mongrels" or "bastards". | | | | A notorious prison building on Rottnest Island, where thousands of Aboriginal men and boys were incarcerated, will no longer be used as holiday accommodation. | | | | Coca-Cola is aiming for a 10 per cent reduction in sugar across their range by 2020. But a single can of reduced sugar Coke still contains almost 40 per cent of your recommended daily intake, plus these drinks remain a "dental disaster", writes Rosemary Stanton. | | | | Whose advice would you rather listen to — a human or a machine? | | | | An investigation into a massive Telstra triple-0 outage several weeks ago rules out lightning as the cause of damage to a cable near Orange, in central-western New South Wales. | | | | ASIC says it lacks effective penalties for many financial services breaches of the law, but it doesn't even threaten to use some of the hefty penalties it has available, writes Elysse Morgan. | | | | The biggest delegation of Chinese business leaders to hit Sydney this year comes just days after diplomatic tensions escalate. | | | | Perth Zoo's baby otters receive their first check-up, with the four Asian small-clawed pups in perfect health. | |  |
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