| | | | Australian doctors say a commitment from the soft drink industry to reduce its sugar use by 20 per cent by 2025 is a distraction from health bodies' calls for a sugar tax. | | | | An Australian medical appointment booking app, which boasts more than 15 million users a year, is passing on patients' information to personal injury lawyers and other third parties, a revelation prompting the Health Minister to order an investigation. | | | | The global central bank of central banks warns Australia is coming to the end of a multi-year debt boom leaving it vulnerable to a financial shock. | | | | Months before a raft accident claimed the lives of four people on the Thunder River Rapids at Dreamworld, management at the Gold Coast theme park ordered repair and maintenance cutbacks due to falling profits, an inquest hears. | | | | A former fly-in fly-out worker and father of three is again sentenced to life in jail for fatally stabbing a man during a fight triggered by a threesome involving his partner at a suburban Perth caravan park. | | | | Centrelink is being urged to review its privacy policy and invest in some locked filing cabinets after a Melbourne woman was unwittingly given a stack of forms that were already filled out by someone else. | | | | Harold and Barbara Cronin spent 45 years building their family's farming enterprise on Western Australia's south coast. In two short years, it was gone. | | | | The behaviour of receivers will not be investigated by the banking royal commission, despite a witness accusing them of causing a "massive destruction of value" for farm businesses. | | | | From July 2 the Child Care Benefit and the Child Care Rebate will be abolished and replaced with the means-tested Child Care Subsidy — which may mean an increased reliance on grandparents to help out. | | | | Child Protection workers in Victoria say the drastically understaffed system is in crisis, with warnings that someone could die if changes aren't made. | | | | A bird group expresses "extreme disappointment" after man who beat six little penguins to death with a stick is convicted, ordered to pay $82.15 in costs and sentenced to 49 hours of community service. | | | | Malcolm Turnbull's foreign interference legislation — aimed at forcing those lobbying on behalf of foreign governments to be put on a public register — should be strengthened to include former ministers, politicians and senior public servants, according to a powerful parliamentary committee. | | | | In 29 countries, US President Donald Trump's election prompted a rise in how people view the US leadership — but few of them are traditional allies. | | | | Social media is abuzz with photos of bees drinking sugar water from teaspoons, after a post on a fan page dedicated to the British naturalist Sir David Attenborough draws attention to the dwindling population of bees worldwide. | | | | Is our economy "on top of the leader board" or should we be concerned about "very high levels of debt"? The two people running our economy, Treasurer Scott Morrison and RBA Governor, Philip Lowe, have very different views, writes Ian Verrender. | | | | Aged care resident Margaret Davis is lobbying for others to speak out against changes at Christadelphian Aged Care facilities in NSW and Queensland, where 120 staff face being laid off because of outsourcing. | | | | It's rusty, missing an engine, and has been sitting on a runway in New Mexico for more than 30 years, but a private jet once owned by the King of Rock 'n' Roll could potentially "fetch millions" if it is restored to its former glory. | | | | With the group stages approaching crunch time, our World Cup Power Rankings see some big fish start to flop and some once-unfancied teams climb — and there's good news for the Socceroos. | | | | The Brisbane Lions are closely monitoring the health of Harris Andrews after he is released from hospital following a sickening hit from GWS forward Jeremy Cameron. He will miss the next two games. | | | | A real-life 'soccer-roo' invades the field and halts a local Canberra match for more than half an hour, with commentators saying the animal even sent "a good quality pass". | | | | With Queensland the last state to debate euthanasia, a dying mother of two says her only option right now is "suicide or Switzerland" as she battles final-stage breast cancer. | | | | It was the mysterious desert artwork that appeared suddenly in the South Australian outback two decades ago. Now, entrepreneur Dick Smith is offering a cash reward for information on who created it. | | | | Germaine Greer takes aim at the "general fog of craziness about the whole rape issue", saying sentences are "excessive" and non-consensual sex is "practically universal in every long-standing relationship". | | | | Model, actress and reality star Brigitte Nielsen says she has given birth to her fifth child, a daughter named Frida, at age 54. | | | | Search and rescue teams are looking for a dozen members of a youth soccer team who are missing, believed to be trapped in a cave in northern Thailand when a heavy storm flooded a stream at the entrance. | |  |
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