| | | | The ABC has obtained a photo of Australian soldiers flying a Nazi flag from an Army vehicle while on operations in Afghanistan. The ADF has called the incident "abhorrent" and the PM says it is "absolutely wrong". | | | | Actress Rebel Wilson's record defamation payout from magazine publisher Bauer Media is reduced from $4.5 million to just $600,000 by Victoria's Court of Appeal. | | | | Brian Burston will not be remembered as an ideological firebrand on the right-hand side of Australia's political spectrum, but his departure from One Nation leaves Pauline Hanson half as useful to the Government as she used to be. | | | | Professor Peter Ridd was sacked last month for allegedly disrespectful comments he made about his colleagues on Sky TV and in private emails he sent on his university account. | | | | Police are searching for the 'missing jigsaw piece' in the hunt for an armed man who subjected a schoolgirl to a five-hour ordeal earlier this week. | | | | A 19-year-old man from Broadmeadows appears in court charged with the rape and murder of aspiring Melbourne comedian Eurydice Dixon, whose body was found on a soccer field in the city's inner north. | | | | If you're scared of crocodiles, don't watch this video. It shows at least 50 of them sunbaking along a short stretch of the Northern Territory's Daly River ... and there's more in the water. | | | | When white anthropologists began studying Aboriginal culture, they came up with the term "Dreamtime" to describe the mythology and history of Indigenous Australians. They couldn't have been more wrong. | | | | In the past year, more than 150 regional bank branches have closed, and for some places that can spell the beginning of the end. Can a town survive without a bank? | | | | Queensland Health asks the state's corruption watchdog to consider whether "potential corrupt conduct" was involved in the publication of former government psychiatrist Donald Grant's new book. | | | | How much power do Australian airport authorities have? Well, you may want to delete a few of your more embarrassing selfies before your next flight. | | | | A "very troubled young man" who killed his mother — nearly decapitating her — will be eligible for release from jail in 11 years' time, prompting outrage from his grandmother. | | | | A ute exiting a highway north of Brisbane lands on three cars, trapping two women, after hitting a median strip, becoming airborne and plunging from the off-ramp. | | | | A witness tells Perth's Supreme Court he saw a driver "smiling and laughing" after he forced him off a country road, before crashing head-on into a car on a major highway, killing one person and seriously injuring another. | | | | Local media report that the couple, Perth man Michael Kearns and his British girlfriend Louise Benson, were taking a selfie photograph on a beach cliff in the holiday town of Ericeira, but dropped the phone and slipped and fell while trying to retrieve it. | | | | Accused Bourke Street driver James Gargasoulas is determined to plead not guilty so that his case goes to trial and he is given a platform to espouse his views and "save" the world, a psychiatrist has told a court hearing. | | | | The South Australian Catholic Church is blindsided by news that clergy will have to report child abuse revealed to them in the confessional, as government reveals laws were passed last year. | | | | A former economist of the year says the banking royal commission has come at the wrong time and warns a "mini financial crisis" in Australia could be on the way, but critics disagree. | | | | When Anne was told by her own daughter that she could no longer see her grandchildren, it broke her heart. Mediation's failed so far, but there are other options for people in a similar situation. Here's what the law says you can do about it. | | | | Peter Scully was arrested in 2015 after allegedly sexually abusing several girls, including an 18-month-old infant. He allegedly ran an international paedophile ring, selling explicit videos to customers around the world. | | | | Don't waste your time with measly prawns — for a real taste of the Territory throw an entire croc on the barbeque. | | | | Tighter lending rules and the fading effect of the removal of pollution controls slam the brakes on growth across key sections of the Chinese economy. | | | | Former Auburn deputy mayor Salim Mehajer offers a "heartfelt apology" in a Sydney court for committing multiple counts of electoral fraud, saying he acted "for love". | | | | Australian universities have been struck by a Government funding freeze worth up to 15 per cent of their base funding, data obtained by the ABC shows. Find out how your campus fares. | | | | Queensland was once home to the world's first floating hotel, and over the past 30 years it's been on a wild ride, from Singapore to the Great Barrier Reef — and North Korea. | |  |
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