| | | | The Opposition Leader succumbs to party pressure and backs down on his plan to scrap company tax cuts for medium-sized businesses. | | | | A gunman, who shot dead five people at The Capital Gazette in Maryland after throwing smoke grenades, had a long-running dispute with the paper, police say. | | | | I've spent two years covering white supremacist groups as a black woman, but I've never felt more worried about doing my job than I do right now, writes US journalist Denise Clay. | | | | Police on the Sunshine Coast have declared an emergency exclusion zone as they negotiate with a man at a unit complex at Alexandra Headland on the Sunshine Coast. | | | | Actor Craig McLachlan's lawyer tells the NSW Supreme Court the media should not be given access to the defence case in his defamation proceedings as it would result in a "burst of publicity" of untested allegations that could prejudice the trial. | | | | Bali's main airport reopens after volcanic ash from Mt Agung forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights and derailed tens of thousands of passengers' holiday plans on the eve of the school holidays. | | | | A wooden crate infested with the deadly varroa mite, which could decimate the Australian beekeeping industry, is detected on a ship in Victoria. | | | | In a startling similarity to a plan hatched by Seinfeld's Kramer and Newman, a New South Wales man has been busted attempting to bring cans into South Australia to gain money through its container deposit scheme. | | | | Plastic bag bans will take effect in Queensland and Western Australia, the new Child Care Subsidy will replace two existing payments, and Amazon will no longer ship to Australia. | | | | Preparing healthful meals can be difficult, and the rise of celebrity chefs and TV cooking has only made food preparation seem more complex and unachievable. The following quick, simple and flexible recipes are just what Dr Sandro Demaio ordered. | | | | The NAB admits it allowed a Queensland grazier's debt to balloon to $7.8 million from $3.3 million be imposing punitive default payments over several years of drought and crashing prices. | | | | The son of fugitive businessman Clive Mensink tells a Brisbane court he deliberately cut his WhatsApp link to his father, who is "having way too much fun" to return to Australia to face questioning over the Queensland Nickel collapse. | | | | British company BAE Systems is chosen for Australia's largest peace-time warship building program, under a $35 billion contract to produce nine high-tech, anti-submarine frigates. | | | | Liz Jackson leaves behind a body of work few can match. She also leaves behind her husband, children, grandchildren, and a legacy worth reflecting upon in a time when the values of journalism itself are threatened — telling real stories and speaking real truth to power, writes Bruce Belsham. | | | | Michy Batshuayi's celebration after Belgium's goal at the World Cup backfires right into his face, providing a lot of laughs for football fans worldwide. | | | | A man wanted over the discovery of a woman's body in a barrel was ordered back to jail in March after he breached his parole and was deemed a public safety concern. | | | | The close-knit mining town of Broken Hill is in mourning after three members of one family died after being found unconscious in an underground room in a workshop. | | | | A bask of crocodiles, a metropolis bustling with people, a flamboyance of flamingos and a bridge to nowhere are just some of the subjects featured among the winners of National Geographic's 2018 travel photographer competition. | | | | Half a dozen deaths have occurred in the past decade on a small stretch of highway, 300 kilometres south-east of Darwin, and residents say they can all be linked to a policy aimed at reducing alcohol-related harm. | | | | Sure, Grant Denyer's show has been cancelled, but he has a head start when it comes to the Gold Logie. | | | | Dr McBride is credited with sounding the alarm about the dangers of thalidomide, but he also conducted fraudulent research. The journalist who exposed him, Dr Norman Swan, says he was a man of misplaced conviction. | | | | "Break rooms" are popping up around Australia, where people pay as little as $35 to don protective gear and destroy bottles, plates and white goods with a baseball bat. But their customers aren't necessarily who you think. | | | | The World Cup has been a cash bonanza for the vory, one of the most powerful organised crime groups in the world. The group has roots in Stalin's Russia and benefits from a "social contract" with Vladimir Putin, according to one academic. | |  |
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