| | | | January 16, 1988 was just like any other day at work for Glenn Bryant. But after a teenage boy was found dead on the train tracks, it triggered a string of unanswered questions that have haunted him and the Tamworth community for 30 years. | | | | Hundreds of you sent your medical bills to Four Corners. Here's what they tell us and what you can do to make navigating the health system easier. | | | | Medical "gap" costs are a huge issue in the private health sector. Why do some of us end up hundreds or sometimes thousands of dollars out of pocket? | | | | Isaac Regional Council insists there is nothing wrong with Adani paying more than $1 million in wages, housing and car costs for council staff members whose job is to scrutinise the company's projects. | | | | It is well known that many prostate cancers are slow-growing, but specialists have warned that does not mean men with low-risk cancers can avoid the doctor's office all together. | | | | Australia's consumer watchdog says more cars fitted with defective and potentially deadly Takata airbags are set to be recalled, after 1 million more were added to the list. | | | | Australian Daniel Ricciardo overcame a mid-race power loss to win the Monaco Grand Prix from pole position on Sunday. | | | | While there clearly is a strong demand for the most affordable housing, the Australian economy, banks and all levels of government needs house prices to keep bubbling along, writes Ian Verrender. | | | | The hardest hearts will suggest the overwrought condemnation of Loris Karius is justified by the vast rewards the game offers. But if you weren't moved when he extended his palms asking for forgiveness from the fans he had let down, you failed a test too, writes Richard Hinds. | | | | Both Pyongyang and Washington are pressing ahead with plans for a meeting between the North Korean leader and US President, as Kim Jong-un reaffirms his commitment to meet with Donald Trump. | | | | Cricket Australia says it is not aware of any "credible evidence linking Australian players to corruption in the game" ahead of the broadcast of a documentary investigating spot fixing allegations. | | | | The Commonwealth Bank spends millions to get access to students in classrooms around the country, but the Queensland Education Department says it is "contrary to the public interest" to reveal how much it receives from the company. | | | | Victorian regulators will move to ban the sale of open-flue gas heaters, currently believed to be in hundreds of thousands of homes in Australia, following serious concerns about several models. | | | | Cape York lawyer Noel Pearson says his proposed declaration could be recited by school children in the spirit of the American Declaration of Independence. | | | | Some 5,000 supporters of the far-right Alternative for Germany march through Berlin, but are heavily outnumbered by twice as many counter-protesters with one group blasting techno music across the capital. | | | | New Zealand's Foreign Minister Winston Peters spent the weekend meeting with top-ranking officials in Beijing, but he hasn't always been a popular figure in China. | | | | A judge finds the Malaysian couple of Chinese descent were overworked and underpaid by a Tasmanian hotel operator because of their race. | | | | A massive case of mistaken identity in the UK shows the technology is "not up to scratch", according to the Law Council of Australia, which calls for a rethink of plans to use the technology to track down terrorists in Australia. | | | | Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten promises a Labor Government would "stop the boats", as a potentially damaging debate of the party's policy on offshore processing is deferred. | | | | China warns it will take all necessary measures to defend it's sovereignty and security after two US Navy warships sailed near the South China Sea islands claimed by China. | | | | Indonesian photographer Agan Harahap's digitally manipulated images lampoon celebrity obsession, and highlight the country's growing fake news problem. | | | | Ireland votes by a landslide to liberalise some of the world's most restrictive abortion laws, in what its Prime Minister describes as the culmination of a "quiet revolution" in what was one of Europe's most socially conservative countries. | | | | Can you imagine not going out to an event because you are worried there will not be a toilet you can use? Welcome to the life of a transgender person. | | | | Managing Cahill's Crossing, one of the most notorious croc-inhabited waterways in the world, can be fascinating, frustrating and sometimes traumatic. | |  |
By business editor Ian Verrender | |  |
By Offsiders columnist Richard Hinds | |  |
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