| | | | Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt orders his department to stop paying social media influencers, after it was revealed taxpayer funds were being paid to Instagram celebrities. | | | | ANZ CEO Shayne Elliot apologises on behalf of the bank after a former employee was forced to recount details of a past rape as part of the bank's defence in a sexual harassment case in New York. | | | | Police say a 19-year-old woman is fatally assaulted in a short-stay apartment in Melbourne's CBD after a dispute between two groups of young people at a party. | | | | How a broken-down rental car helped Jurgen Otto rediscover a tiny dancing spider first spotted 23 years ago. | | | | Far from cocooning their students in a sanitary environment, a growing number of public schools are allowing children to race around on bikes, fly off ramps in crates and slide down trees — and they say it's paying great dividends. | | | | James Gunn apologised for the tweets and denies ever engaging in the behaviour, but Disney says the statements are "indefensible and inconsistent with our studio's values". | | | | Children's height and weight would be measured every two years unless parents opt-out as part of an ambitious proposal to tackle Australia's obesity epidemic. | | | | The Swans let an early five-goal lead slip in one of the biggest boilovers of recent AFL history, with the Gold Coast Suns stunning their hosts in Sydney. Now Essendon takes on Fremantle, and you can follow it live in our AFL ScoreCentre. | | | | Women have always had a presence on cattle stations, but when handling the herd is about someone's nature and not just their brute strength, the opportunities open up. | | | | US President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen secretly recorded a conversation with him before the 2016 presidential election in which they discussed a potential payment to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Mr Trump, the New York Times is reporting. | | | | If the world held up a mirror to the US President that reflected weakness rather than strength, it might give him cause to change his behaviour. But his erratic behaviour seems to have left leaders — including Malcolm Turnbull — paralysed, writes Laura Tingle. | | | | After the Newcastle Knights surge to see off the Gold Coast Titans, the Wests Tigers face the Rabbitohs and Cowboys take on St George Illawarra. Follow all the action in our live NRL ScoreCentre. | | | | Former refugee Joseph Deng makes history, breaking the 50-year-old Australian 800m record at the Diamond League meet in Monaco. | | | | WhatsApp launches a test to limit forwarding messages that will apply to all users, after a series of mass beatings in India triggered by false social media messages. | | | | More than a dozen sightseers, including nine people from the same family, have been killed when a Missouri duck boat capsized and sank in stormy weather in the deadliest such accident in almost two decades. | | | | Tayla Daly's ring went missing only three days after the proposal, but it was the kindness of a complete stranger that took her by surprise. | | | | Another incident at the Tour de France, with a smoke bomb thrown into the peloton, raises safety concerns amid ongoing public animosity to Chris Froome and Team Sky. | | | | Chinese social media is the most popular news source for students living in Australia, but it is also full of fake news. Here's a look at some of the tall tales doing the rounds. | | | | While Australia's biggest city grapples with laws prompted by alcohol-fuelled violence, its neighbours are seeing a surge in small venues as assault rates plummet. | | | | A Wollongong man who was one of Australia's youngest university undergraduates has finished an honours degree in mathematics at the age of 19, and now is heading to the United States to start a PhD. | | | | They are young, innovative, adventurous and are towing a vintage-look caravan around Australia, bringing speciality coffee to remote outback communities. | |  |
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