| | | | The inquest examining the 2016 fatal accident on Dreamworld's Thunder River Rapids is told the ride had a "rat's nest" of wiring at its control panel, and that a pump on the ride had broken down five times in the week before the accident. | | | | Lawyer Bernard Collaery, whose client exposed a secret Australian spying operation in East Timor, says a prosecution launched against them both is an attack on his profession, a "very brave and courageous veteran" and freedom of speech. | | | | A resident says she saw an arm and a barrel in the back of a ute that was later found dumped with the body of a woman inside. Detectives are now wanting to question a 34-year-old man over the discovery. | | | | Two of Europe's heavyweights will lock horns to determine who will progress as winners of Group G at the World Cup, but finishing first may not be all it's cracked up to be. | | | | A Sunshine Coast woman wins a costly Supreme Court battle against the Nambour Bowls Club that cancelled her membership and then banned her from the premises after a disagreement over recycled coleslaw escalated. | | | | Former Socceroos coach Ange Postecoglou adds his voice to the ongoing World Cup post-mortem, urging the nation as a whole to shed its "comfortable position" as an eternal footballing underdog if genuine progress is to ever be made. | | | | Media reports and history books describe the former first lady and Lorena Hickok as "close friends", but the author of new book White Houses says there is no doubt they were in love. | | | | The Socceroos' World Cup exit has nothing to do with their formation on the field — Football Federation Australia never gave them a chance to advance in Russia, writes Richard Hinds. | | | | The banking royal commission hears about a Bankwest manager who won a Hayman Island trip for his sales prowess, but left the bank a year later under a cloud of inflated property valuations and fudged customer figures. | | | | A Melbourne man is facing a number of charges, including making offensive graffiti, after the floral memorial to Melbourne comedian Eurydice Dixon was vandalised on the day of a public vigil in her honour. | | | | Satellite images show improvements continuing at a North Korean nuclear facility, even though leader Kim Jong-un recently made commitments to dismantle the country's nuclear program. | | | | When the federal police came across an abandoned bag at Adelaide Airport, they were quick to hop into action. What they found was quite a surprise. | | | | Seventeen years of working with homeless charities didn't prepare Jak Vaessen for what he experienced over two nights sleeping rough. | | | | A Sydney teenager who said he wanted to attack and terrorise "infidels" at a memorial service on Anzac Day in 2016 is sentenced to 12 years' jail. | | | | A Finnish education expert recently said he believed mobile phone-related distraction was a main reason for Australia sliding down in PISA rankings. Meanwhile, parents and teachers share concerns about cyberbullying and online safety, but do the benefits of allowing smartphones in classrooms outweigh the risks? | | | | The Tarn Shelf is a small patch of alpine wilderness in Tasmania — a window to a time tens of thousands of years ago. It's so precious Jamie Kirkpatrick has spent a lifetime working to protect it. | | | | French President Emmanuel Macron once said he wanted every young citizen to experience military life. His new national service scheme goes some of the way to making that a reality. | | | | A Sunshine Coast man who connected a garden hose to his wife's caravan and pumped in nitrogen gas as she slept is jailed for 10 years for attempted murder. | | | | Charging devices on or near beds and rolling up electric blankets are two of the most common causes of fires, which become increasingly common in winter as the temperatures drop. | | | | The controversial former Sydney doctor and scientist helped alert the world to birth defects caused by the morning sickness drug. | | | | Malcolm Turnbull will lose one of his most influential hand-picked advisors on Indigenous affairs with leader and educator Chris Sarra stepping down from the advisory council. | | | | The Northern Territory's road safety record is a remarkable outlier. | | | | Former Australian Open finalist Dominika Cibulkova hits out at Wimbledon organisers who gave the final seeding spot at the tournament to Serena Williams. | |  |
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