| | | | Margaret River is famous worldwide for wine, surf and holidays. But a dark pall has been cast over the WA town, which is now the home to one of Australia's worst mass shooting murders. | | | | A 12-year-old boy is missing after being abducted in a car at Mudgeeraba on Queensland's Gold Coast on Friday afternoon, with Queensland police saying the boy may be at significant risk. | | | | As Hobart begins the massive job of cleaning up after Thursday night's massive storm and flooding, the city is counting the costs of the damage. | | | | In an exclusive interview with the ABC, the daughter of Malaysia's jailed opposition figure says she is confident he will be released soon, following the pledge of newly elected Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. | | | | The daughter of one-time Liberal leader and foreign minister Alexander Downer confirms via a tweet that she will seek preselection for her father's old federal seat in the Adelaide Hills. | | | | Massimo Luongo feels he is "twice the player" he was when he started his Socceroos career and he is desperate to illustrate this at the World Cup in Russia. | | | | Think of it like a sped-up version of Clean Up Australia Day. The name is a mash-up of the Swedish words for "to jog" and "to pick up" and the craze is sweeping the globe. | | | | Perth barrister Lloyd Rayney is facing the prospect of being permanently banned from practising law for "unlawfully" recording his murdered wife's conversations without her consent and giving false evidence about it in court. | | | | The country's three biggest supermarket chains say they will investigate claims made by workers of exploitation and bullying at a major national flower supplier. | | | | Despite its inevitability, death catches many of us off guard. We asked three people who come into contact with death daily how — if at all — it changes their outlook on life, and on dying. | | | | The first trimester of a pregnancy can often be the hardest, so why do so many women feel the need to stay quiet? And what if the answer — miscarriage — is the reason we should be talking about pregnancy earlier? | | | | If you'd like to stir up a dinner party in any corner of America, bring up the name Melania Trump. Her latest official utterance has done nothing to illuminate her fellow Americans, writes Micheline Maynard. | | | | The American musician just a broke chart record set by The Beatles, illustrating his immense popularity. But is he appropriating black culture, or forging his own, genre-less identity? | | | | Shoua's routine in a refugee camp is vastly different from her happy life as a married teacher before the Syrian war. But now she's learning new skills in a program that has seen her restart her social life. | | | | Melbourne Girls Outside is a group trying to spread the message that adventuring is not just for men and something that only happens on holidays. | | | | When both her parents got a stage four cancer diagnosis, US photographer Nancy Borowick got out her camera. It was a way to be with them "without completely falling apart". | | | | Yvette Coppersmith was rebuffed when she asked to paint New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern's portrait, and settled on a self-portrait instead. It just won this year's Archibald Prize. | | | | Parts of Gippsland in eastern Victoria are expected to get a month's worth of rain on Saturday as a low pressure system crosses the state, bringing with it high winds and intense rainfall. | | | | The World Health Organisation is hoping the Congo will give the green light for the deployment of an experimental vaccine, as the risk grows an Ebola outbreak in a remote area will spread, including to a town with about one million people. | | | | Unheralded forward Ben Ronke rises from obscurity to boot seven goals for Sydney as the Swans come from behind to beat Hawthorn in a cracker at the MCG. | | | | Sand blown in from the desert coats the sky, with researchers saying the changing climate is contributing to the problem. | |  |
By Micheline Maynard | |  |
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