| | | | Hiding in plain sight in homes all across Australia, international crime syndicates are growing millions of dollars worth of cannabis. Here's how they do it. | | | | Grant Denyer wins the Gold Logie, as TV icon Bert Newton faces a social media backlash after referring to himself using a gay slur and joking about a former co-star "mentoring" young talent behind locked doors. | | | | Zlatko Sikorsky — who is accused of murdering teenager Larissa Beilby after her body was discovered in a barrel south of Brisbane — is facing an extra 16 charges, including possessing weapons and dangerous drugs. | | | | Serena Zipf and her family stood by and watched biosecurity officers pump chlorine into their prawn ponds in the last outbreak of white spot. Now they fear there's nothing to stop it happening again. | | | | Prawns carrying the white spot virus have been detected in supermarkets in Queensland, two years after an outbreak of the disease wiped out south-east Queensland's prawn farming industry. | | | | For those in banking, and particularly insurance, independent Bob Katter has now earned himself a special sobriquet — one that probably is best not repeated here, writes Ian Verrender. | | | | Moscow becomes party central as Russians celebrate their incredibly unlikely win over Spain to advance to an unprecedented quarter-final spot at the World Cup. | | | | Croatia beats Denmark in a penalty shootout to reach the quarter-finals of the World Cup after a 1-1 draw filled with early goals and a saved, controversial penalty late in extra time. | | | | Parents of an elite Sydney school are told that paying school fees does not entitle them to verbally abuse or physically threaten teachers, with a principal remarking that some wrongly see it as a "master/servant relationship". | | | | Redoine Faid, who was serving a sentence for murder and armed robbery, is on the run after being broken out of prison by heavily armed gunmen and escaping in a helicopter that landed in the prison grounds, according to the Justice Ministry. | | | | Punters at Crown Casino who have signed up to a system designed to limit their losses are being given access to unrestricted poker machines which have no minimum spin rate, making a mockery of the harm minimisation measure, anti-gambling advocates say. | | | | Eleven members of a family are found dead in India's capital, most of them blindfolded, gagged and with hands tied behind their backs, with police unable to offer any concrete explanation about what happened. | | | | With no end in sight to Australia's homelessness crisis, one charity is taking an innovative approach to housing women in need. | | | | A 25-year-old Australian man is seriously injured after falling from a train in British Columbia, with local media reporting he has undergone full and partial limb amputations. | | | | The AFL is battling separate woes over how to protect its significant investment in the Gold Coast and to quell growing discontent in Tasmania. They are problems that could have been avoided if the AFL had looked south before it looked north, writes Richard Hinds. | | | | A bus with people "packed like sardines" plunges off a mountain road and into a 213-metre deep gorge in northern India, killing at least 48 people, according to officials. | | | | The puppet maker and artist, who created classic British children's TV programs Clangers, Bagpuss, and The Basil Brush Show, dies at his home in Kent in south-east England after a short illness, his spokesman says. | | | | Queensland's attempts to salvage some pride in the final game of State of Origin for 2018 have taken a further hit, with captain Greg Inglis ruled out with a broken thumb. | | | | Islamic Council of Queensland spokesman Ali Kadri says terror charges against a 21-year-old from should not be seen as a reflection of the Muslim community. | | | | Archaeologists at Pompeii say a man previously thought to have been decapitated by a flying stone block as he fled the Mt Vesuvius eruption appears to have died from suffocation, after discovering the victim's skull in pristine condition. | |  |
By business editor Ian Verrender | |  |
By Dean Bilton | |  |
by Offsiders columnist Richard Hinds | |  |
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