| | | | The online retail giant will prevent Australian consumers from accessing its global sites to counter new laws to force it to collect the good and services tax on transactions. | | | | Customers were thought to be the winners when Amazon Australia launched. But from July 1, all access to international Amazon stores will be blocked by the retail giant. Here's why they are doing it, and how you can still get those international bargains. | | | | A business owner who banked with NAB was left without money to buy a new house, despite the bank having no legal right to take the funds he had planned to use and instead reduce his business debts. | | | | After deliberating for nine hours, a jury finds former Northern Territory police commissioner John McRoberts tried to "frustrate" or "deflect" a travel agent fraud investigation known as Operation Subutai between May and November 2014. | | | | The Bureau of Meteorology's long term outlook has just dropped and there is no welcome news for farmers. | | | | Dib Hanna, who has repeatedly been caught illegally dumping asbestos around Sydney, is jailed for three years and made to take out newspaper advertisements about his punishment as a deterrent to other would-be offenders. | | | | Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young uses Senate Estimates to raise an allegation that a school chaplain told a student with anorexia that she was "hungering for the word of God". | | | | Homicide detectives are investigating after a body was discovered at a deceased estate on Sydney's lower North Shore, one year after the owner died. | | | | A hotel employee lives to tell the tale after his attempt to valet park a soft-top Porsche Carrera went horribly wrong near Sydney's Darling Harbour this morning, ending up under an SUV. | | | | Victoria Police officers faked hundreds of thousands of roadside breath tests, but how did they do it and what will happen to the officers responsible? | | | | Health Minister Greg Hunt says the meeting where he swore at the Katherine Mayor and told her "I've heard you're feisty" was not the first time he used inappropriate language with a stakeholder or public servant. | | | | The community of Christmas Island could be facing hundreds of job losses after a proposal to expand the island's phosphate mine is knocked back over fears of the impact to the island's wildlife, including its world-famous red crabs. | | | | Arkady Babchenko's complicity in staging his own murder makes Russia's involvement in future crimes harder to prove — and risks further eroding trust in journalists around the world. | | | | At almost 19 hours long, Singapore Airlines aims to begin the world's longest flight in October, taking passengers from Singapore to Newark, New Jersey. | | | | A loose goose has quite literally crashed a major league baseball game between the Detroit Tigers and LA Angels. | | | | Is the departure of The Walking Dead's main actor, Andrew Lincoln, too much for even a speculative, post-apocalyptic storyline to endure? | | | | Martin Cooper was supposed to care for vulnerable children, but instead subjected them to horrendous and repeated physical and sexual abuse. When they went to adults for help, they were not believed. Now 40 years on, justice has finally been served. | | | | The former Motoring Enthusiast Party senator is accused of owing a mill owner thousands of dollars for stock. | | | | A landmark decision to break down gender barriers in the world of rowing means these two coxswains are leading female and male crews — and they say more sports should follow suit. | | | | Up to 80 per cent of survivors of institutional child sexual abuse will now have access to the national redress scheme, with the Salvation Army, Scouts Australia, YMCA Australia and the Anglican Church all joining today. | | | | Foreign investment in Australian property has plummeted by more than half, signalling an apparent end to the China-fuelled real estate frenzy. Along the way we learned some useful lessons about boom and bust, writes Dallas Rogers. | | | | There are no higher standards than those a father expects of a suitor for his daughter, and that's exactly the bar being set by new Australian cricket coach Justin Langer, according to Adam Gilchrist. | | | | A large collection of Egyptian antiquities uncovered during a clean-up of a Sydney home is donated to a university archaeological museum. | |  |
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