| | In a busy airport, the gathering could be mistaken for just a regular family farewell. But at this departure, there will be no coming home. David Goodall is going to die. | | | President Donald Trump insists "we're not changing any stories" about the 2016 hush payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels, saying new legal representative Ruby Giuliani is "a great guy but he just started a day ago". | | | China's deployment of missiles to the disputed Spratly Islands shows that Beijing is serious about exerting long-term domination over the South China Sea, and has no intention of keeping its promise not to militarise the contested area. | | | Very little of Scott Morrison's third budget has leaked so far, but we know exactly the sort of pre-election budget we'll see on Tuesday. | | | Residents near Hawaii's Kilauea volcano are being forced to evacuate as authorities raise the alert level in anticipation of an imminent eruption following a series of earthquakes. | | | Former prime minister Kevin Rudd takes to popular Chinese social media site Weibo to take aim at Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's "paranoid and all over the place" policies towards Beijing, as well as muse about various other China-related issues. | | | The review is being billed as a health check for the culture, capability and organisational structure of the public service, but Labor says it should have been consulted and unions are criticising the membership of the review panel. | | | We can drastically reduce the amount of household waste we send to landfill by making a few simple changes. | | | After months of speculation, Kensington Palace confirms Meghan Markle's father will walk her down the aisle at her wedding to Prince Harry. | | | The Government confirms it will conduct an investigation into Telstra's triple-0 outage, which saw emergency calls from around the country go unanswered. | | | Dozens of refugees who fled conflict zones are finding solace in Victorian Indigenous culture by joining in an ancient Aboriginal ceremony. | | | Hawaii is on track to ban the sale of sunscreens containing two common chemicals, because of the damaging impact those chemicals have on their coral reefs — but Australia is reluctant to follow suit. | | | There are emotional scenes in a Sydney court as dozens of people turn up to support three women linked to a performing arts school in regional NSW who are accused of sexually and physically abusing three young boys. | | | The 2018 budget is just days away, but we already have a few tidbits about who's likely to benefit this year. | | | A New Zealand dairy farmer near Rotorua stumbles across a sinkhole which is being described as one of the country's biggest. | | | Israeli leaders reject apology by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who is accused of anti-Semitism for suggesting that historic persecution of European Jews was caused by their conduct, not by their religion. | | | A man who strangled, spat on and burnt his ex-girlfriend before sending her car into oncoming traffic causing a head-on crash, has been sentenced to five years in prison. | | | The banking royal commission and this week's APRA report into the Commonwealth are a litany of banks, and AMP, behaving badly, writes Andrew Robertson. | | | The wife of a convicted Islamic State recruiter refuses to stand in court for a magistrate who finds her guilty of disrespectful behaviour by refusing to stand for a judge in 2016. | | | Mohamed, a Cairo donkey barber, uses tramadol daily to cope with gruelling work and grinding poverty like an growing number of Egyptians, another example of the opioid crisis that is expanding worldwide. | | | By Laura Tingle | | | By environment reporter Nick Kilvert | | | by Anne Barker | | | By John Barron | | | | | The ABC sent this message to starnewsposting@gmail.com these details are included to help provide assurance that this is a genuine email from ABC.
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