| | | | Secret reports and insider accounts from prison officers and former inmates reveal Brisbane's Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre is overcrowded, increasingly violent and unsafe — even for the staff. | | | | In a world first, the Australian Human Rights Commission will launch an independent national inquiry into sexual harassment in the workplace. | | | | Over the next three years interest-only loans worth a combined total of about $360 billion will roll over to interest plus principal — and that could lead to a "nightmare scenario". | | | | Australians' trust in the US as a world leader has dropped to a record low as two out of five people consider President Donald Trump a "critical threat" to Australia's interests, according to the latest Lowy Institute poll. | | | | England has broken its own record for the highest-ever score in one-day international cricket, demolishing Australia's bowling attack before the Aussies are dismissed three runs short … of the half-way mark in their chase. | | | | A hospitality union says a series of claims of underpayment by former employees at inner-city Melbourne cafe Hairy Little Sista is one of the worst they have seen, as business owner Kristine Becker says she wants to get the issue "sorted". | | | | A Canberra man says he is still in shock after his 17-year-old, microchipped Maltese, which was wearing a coat, was killed by ACT authorities just 24 hours after going missing. | | | | Supermarket giant Woolworths is banning single-use plastic bags from today ahead of a statewide ban taking effect next month. The bags take years to break down, and many end up in the environment polluting oceans, rivers and beaches. | | | | An American tourist who survived a helicopter crash in the Whitsundays, which killed her mother and stepfather, will be reunited with her bag after it was found by a couple three months later. | | | | Australians are living longer but half of us have a chronic health condition which impacts our quality of life, a report finds. | | | | A veteran stripper with a monopoly in the local private adult entertainment market is frustrated in her search for an apprentice to share the stage. | | | | Avocado prices are at a low and new tree plantings across the country will see the industry boom. | | | | A strawberry grower wages her own war on waste to stop tonnes of delicious fruit being dumped because they don't meet supermarkets demands. | | | | One of the two operators managing the Thunder River Rapids ride at Dreamworld was trained on the morning of the day four people were killed, a court hears. | | | | The NSW Government has watered down changes to laws governing the Murray-Darling river system that were proposed in the wake of the water theft and corruption investigations, according to Labor and the Greens. | | | | US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, and US Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, are set to announce that the United States is pulling out of the United Nations Human Rights Council, according to a source inside the Trump administration. | | | | Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak must feel the walls around them are closing in as the wheels of justice make up for lost time, writes David Lipson. | | | | Upon the release of the state of the nation breast cancer report, Anita Jamieson shares the shock of diagnosis, then almost immediately the shock of the bills. | | | | The rules restricting businesses hiring temporary foreign workers have been relaxed — but forget about Gumtree. | | | | Russia's incredible World Cup form continues on home soil with a 3-1 win over Egypt; a result that puts Mohamed Salah's Pharaohs on the brink of first-round elimination. | | | | Chinese President Xi Jinping offers high praise to the visiting North Korean leader, lauding the "positive" outcome of his historic summit with US President Donald Trump and promising unwavering friendship. | | | | Residents in some of Australia's poorest communities are drinking water high in uranium, and residents accuse governments of ignoring the problem. Elder Bob Liddle says: "If that was happening in Victoria, you'd have a hell of a row. There would be politicians on the guillotine." | | | | The photographer who took the now infamous image of a toddler crying as her mother is searched by officers at the US-Mexico border says he could see the fear on their faces. | |  |
By Ian Verrender | |  |
By South-East Asia correspondent David Lipson | |  |
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