| | | | Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is confronted over penalty cuts and the ABC by angry voters during a hotel visit, before one turns on candidate Trevor Ruthenberg for wrongly claiming he earned a prestigious defence service medal. | | | | A leading retail analyst says the collapse of Dick Smith's food business is no surprise as consumers continue to choose what is best for their wallets — and should be a warning for other Australian businesses. | | | | Senior figures in the Turnbull Government say they believe the Trump administration is prepared to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities, perhaps as early as next month, and say Australia is poised to help identify possible targets. | | | | A drama teacher at a Perth private girls' school is jailed for almost five years for sexually abusing two of her teenage students after letting "her feelings over-rule her brain". | | | | Adelaide's only daily newspaper — The Advertiser — apologises "unreservedly" for a cartoon referencing the bushfires in Greece following outrage from the South Australian Greek community. | | | | A woman who cut up her partner's body with a saw she purchased from Bunnings and dumped his torso on a roadside is found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison, almost five years after his death. | | | | Facebook stocks plunge almost 19 per cent, worth a staggering $US119 billion, marking one of the biggest single-day losses in United States stock market history. | | | | In case you missed all that campaigning, there are five federal by-elections happening this weekend, and a few reasons you might want to watch the result (even if you're not voting). | | | | Twenty years ago, two gay couples met by chance in Sydney, and hatched a radical family plan. Ruth, Betty, Charlie and John say they're "just like everyone else with kids" — and their two children agree. | | | | Ian 'Rabbit' Steel apologises to his victims before he is sentenced to at least two decades behind bars for a string of armed robberies he committed across Sydney in the 1980s. | | | | Lawyers for a 64-year-old man accused of the abduction and murder of a three-year-old on the NSW south coast in 1970 question the validity of his alleged confession to police. | | | | Backbencher Emma Husar has taken leave amid complaints she tasked her taxpayer-funded staff to mind her kids and walk her dog. Despite repeated expenses controversies, we still do not have an MPs' code of conduct at the federal level and that should be fixed, writes Yee-Fui Ng. | | | | On Saturday morning, Australians will be treated to a bright red lunar eclipse — the longest many will see for more than 100 years. Our guide explains when to see it, and what it will look like from where you live. | | | | Australians are at risk of dying in house fires because the building code allows an ineffective type of smoke alarm, according to a senior US firefighter. | | | | Almost a quarter of a million Australians are turning up to work under the influence of methamphetamines "on any given day", a forensic toxicologist warns. | | | | Donald Trump left on the CAPS LOCK button to threaten Iran on Twitter, but it didn't distract from his troubles back home in America for long, writes Zoe Daniel. | | | | The White House says North Korea has turned over the remains of American service members killed in the Korean War, following through on a promise made last month to President Donald Trump. | | | | During frontier times, thousands of Aboriginal people were shot dead, driven over cliffs and poisoned. The locations of those massacres are detailed by a landmark mapping project that has grown to 250 sites across almost every state and territory. | | | | The population of an entire island in Vanuatu is set to be evacuated for the second time in less than a year as increasing ash clouds from an erupting volcano turn day into night. | | | | It's a common complaint from women sharing bathrooms with males, but is it fair to suggest men are simply not aiming straight or is there a reason why their aim can be as flimsy as toilet paper? | | | | Why has the biggest bike race in the world lost some of its gloss? Yet again, following a World Cup win for France, Le Tour is suffering amid the haze of pepper spray and boos from the crowds, writes Rob Arnold. | |  |
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