| | | | Residents of a Sunshine Coast unit block have been trapped in their homes since early Friday afternoon as police negotiate with Zlatko Sikorsky, the man wanted in connection with the discovery of a woman's body in a barrel. | | | | Velma Ninjipa was shot in the face at close range when a simple safety routine for driving around town failed. Her story is all too common in a city about to hit the world stage. | | | | Almost anyone in the Labor Caucus will tell you they don't believe Parliament will return after the winter break, with Malcolm Turnbull calling an election instead. This theory isn't new, but what does it mean for Bill Shorten in the wake of his captain-call blunder on company tax cuts, Laura Tingle asks. | | | | A Maryland man charged with rampaging through a newsroom in Annapolis with a pump-action shotgun and killing five people is denied bail after one of the deadliest attacks on journalists in US history. | | | | The decision by a WA bureaucrat to redact the word "Aboriginal" from official documents creates an outcry among archivists, genealogists and historians, who are pushing for the registrar's power to be restricted. | | | | It's known as "the Long Paddock" — an iconic network of travelling stock routes made famous by Australia's bush poets. But cattle drovers say these livestock highways are falling into disrepair. | | | | Fourth-generation avocado farmer Katrina Myers was pulled from her boarding school classroom at 15 and told her father had died by suicide on the family property. Now after her own mental health challenges, she's on a mission for change — starting with her local farmers markets. | | | | There is a troubling pattern that emerges in the "Fab Five's" interaction with their makeover subjects: their proximity to the poverty line. A low minimum wage and an absence of affordable healthcare are just two reasons that these men choose to buy polos from Walmart instead of button-ups from Oxford, writes Eden Faithfull. | | | | Even as European Union leaders meet for a second day in Brussels, the coast guard in Libya — the main jumping off point for most migrants trying to reach Europe — says about 100 people are feared dead in the Mediterranean Sea after their smugglers' boat capsized. | | | | Thousands of dead sharks were found in the freezers when a fleet of Chinese fishing boats were boarded last September. Now those involved have been let off the hook, raising questions about China's pervasive influence in East Timor. | | | | A weaker Australian dollar and surging commodity prices have boosted the Australian share market. That's despite the banking royal commission and the potential trade war around the corner. | | | | Brazil's informal rubbish collectors — known as catadores and easily recognisable by their wagons, or carrocas — play a crucial public service role and now it's hoped new technology will lead to more work, better pay and increased recycling. | | | | There are big changes coming this week to childcare payments for hundreds of thousands of Australian families — but changes are also coming to childcare providers, and some operators say that could lead to fee increases. | | | | Finally free from injury and with his blistering serve in fine order, Nick Kyrgios embarks on a Wimbledon campaign with high expectations. But can he really go all the way? | | | | As Mexico goes to the polls tomorrow, one candidate has a commanding lead. He goes by the acronym AMLO, wants to offer amnesty to narcos and turn the presidential palace into a park. | | | | Clearer country-of-origin food labelling laws make it easier for shoppers to buy Australian produce. | | | | Drought, feed costs and fatigue compound, forcing dairy farmers to weigh up their future as milk prices remain low. | | | | Wildlife carers call for more protections against development pressures, alarmed at a spike in kangaroo deaths on the Sunshine Coast. | | | | The link between a person having a major health problem such as cancer and becoming homeless is increasing, according to homeless support groups. | | | | A law firm turns its attention to regional Western Australia in a bid to reveal the full extent of prolific paedophile priest Denis McAlinden's abuse of young children. | | | | A wooden crate infested with the deadly varroa mite, which could decimate the Australian beekeeping industry, is detected on a ship in Victoria. | | | | Changes to penalty rates for some retail, hospitality, and pharmacy workers come into effect this Sunday. The industry says more people will be employed, but around 700,000 workers will earn less. | | | | 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. | |  |
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