| | | | The Nationals backbencher takes a month's personal leave, hours after defending what he said was his partner Vikki Campion's decision to accept payment for a joint TV interview. | | | | America's ABC slams comedian Roseanne Barr's comparison of a former Obama administration official to an ape in remarks on Twitter as "abhorrent" and "repugnant". | | | | A knife-wielding man in Liege steal the weapons of two female police officers, shooting them and a bystander dead, in what officials say was a terrorist attack by a radicalised petty criminal on day-release from prison. | | | | This is the Verney-Carron Veloce, a French-made shotgun with a new fast fire and reload mechanism. It is not available in Australia but if Queensland gun importer Rick Casagrande gets his way, it soon will be. | | | | Citizens in democracies are expecting more from their political systems and political leaders, and they are increasingly underwhelmed by what they see. And while can fix problems of leadership, dual citizenship and even gender parity, the rot goes deeper, writes Jill Sheppard. | | | | Australia has more than 70,000 police on the streets and the crime rate is down, but police unions want more. How many cops is too many? Take a look at the stats and decide for yourself. | | | | The Hobart City Council will today be offered a new Indigenous name for the Tasmanian capital in palawa kani, the revived Tasmanian Aboriginal language. | | | | Researchers caution their estimated toll from last September's hurricane may still be too low and say the numbers "underscore the inattention of the US Government to the frail infrastructure of Puerto Rico". | | | | Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton says the Government is actively considering the domestic use of the highly secretive cybersecurity agency, the Australian Signals Directorate, to protect critical infrastructure as well as counter cybercrime. | | | | Despite Sydney trumping many of the world's biggest cities yesterday for air pollution levels, days like those are rare and staying inside for days at a time or having air pollution apps dictate our lives is still a foreign concept. | | | | Ipswich City Council's suspended Mayor Andrew Antoniolli spends the night in custody in the city's watch house, west of Brisbane, after being arrested for allegedly breaching bail. | | | | Independence hero Xanana Gusmao and his Change for Progress Alliance wins a majority of the seats in parliament in an election this month, a court says. | | | | Sydney mother Jo Dean "returned to normal" after being diagnosed with pre-eclampsia while pregnant with her boys. Fast forward to 2017, and she found herself struggling with chest pains on her regular bike ride. | | | | A government-backed marketing campaign spruiks whale meat as a delicacy in Norway, with whale protein pills, whale energy drinks and whale oil skin creams also on the market. | | | | The man who helped take blockbuster movie director James Cameron to the deepest ocean in the world has developed a relationship with the director that grows stronger with every voyage. | | | | The ABC has obtained correspondence from South Australia's anti-corruption commissioner as he lobbies the new State Government for more funding. | | | | Data compiled by broadcast regulator ACMA reveals TV channels outside of the capitals screen insufficient Australian programming. | | | | A migrant who scaled a Paris building to rescue a boy dangling from a fourth-storey balcony is hailed a hero by the boy's mother and grandmother, as the boy's father faces court for leaving him home alone. | | | | A "well-organised network" helped a north Queensland mother who abducted her daughters without their father's permission stay hidden for more than four years, police allege in court documents. | | | | Two men and a woman are charged over the "absolutely shocking" death of a man in an industrial woodchipper, which was originally considered an accident. | | | | Police reveal a suspected serial killer believed to be responsible for the murders of three people in South Australia lived close to each of them when they were killed, and is currently living freely in Victoria. | | | | A senior North Korean official is headed to New York to discuss an upcoming summit, US President Donald Trump says, the latest indication that an on-again-off-again meeting between Mr Trump and North Korea's leader may go ahead next month. | | | | The Family Court and Federal Circuit Court will be combined as part of a raft of changes to the financially and emotionally crippling family law system, in an announcement by the Attorney-General Christian Porter today. | | | | Once on the verge of environmental and cultural destruction, the wetlands of the Murrumbidgee River in the New South Wales Riverina region will be restored by several conservation, Aboriginal and scientific groups, the State Government announces. | |  |
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