| | | | Standing side-by-side with Vladimir Putin, the US President refuses to blame the Russian leader for meddling in the 2016 elections, casting doubt on the findings of his own intelligence agencies and sparking a storm of criticism at home. | | | | Giving up her right to anonymity, the ex-wife of former One Nation adviser Sean Black says her experience of being grilled over three days in court was almost as traumatic as the rape and assaults she endured. | | | | Chief executive pay hit record highs over the past year as wages growth for workers continues to flatline and trust in big business ebbs amid fallout from the banking royal commission. | | | | The tax office says its four-year survey was commissioned to help develop "fairness metrics". The survey found almost half of Australian individuals and businesses think the tax office is unfair. | | | | Briefs have a fascinating history and are now being transformed by technology, with high-performance undies claiming to do everything from filtering flatulence to emitting soothing vibrations, writes Alana Clifton-Cunningham. | | | | The competition regulator's electricity pricing inquiry is "a political document" that is unlikely to lower prices and will cause a further retreat by investors, according to one leading analyst. | | | | They were the beer-swilling, knife-wielding daredevils that would come to typify outback Australia. So what happened to Australia's old-school croc hunters? | | | | A teenager is charged with the murders of his mother, her 15-year-old daughter and her eight-year-old son in what police describe as one of the most horrific crime scenes they have encountered. | | | | When Nicole Lee's husband was removed from her home after she disclosed a decade of abuse to hospital staff, it took her eight weeks to get a shower. She says a new approach to tackle violence against people with disabilities is long overdue. | | | | The Queensland Government is taking a major step toward decriminalising abortion, but with so many variables it is hard to predict the outcome. | | | | A surfer on the New South Wales north coast says he used a boat's anchor to drag a dead whale out to sea to protect board riders from feeding great white sharks. | | | | When I was a child, a terrifying, child-eating monster lurked under my bed. It took an international flight, the odd pint of beer and an array of worm enthusiasts for me to make sense of its genesis. | | | | A contamination expert is warning a federal inquiry that the spread of potentially harmful firefighting chemicals is likely to have affected much more than previously reported, including all Australian airports. | | | | Retired racing car driver Larry Perkins says discovering an explorer's 100-year-old cache of equipment was "a different page of excitement" to winning Bathurst. | | | | The big banks have been whacked by the financial services royal commission and the media for lax lending standards, and it seems they're taking note. | | | | West Coast Eagles ruckman Nic Naitanui is facing another year out of the game as tests confirm he needs another knee reconstruction — this time on the opposite knee from the one which took him out of the 2017 season. | | | | A 14-year-old boy from Melbourne's eastern suburbs has stormed to victory at the Pokemon North America International Championships in Ohio. | | | | One of the SEALs involved in the mission to rescue the soccer team struck in a flooded cave praises the boys' tenacity, saying they worked every day to dig themselves out, tunnelling up to five metres. | | | | As the drought conditions across the east of Australia lead to a tripling in the cost of hay, one farmer is turning to watermelon as a supplement to feed his cattle. | | | | Wil Patterson had a wife, a son, a house in the suburbs — and mounting debt. That was when he made the decision that landed him in jail. | | | | The Tesla boss launches a Twitter tirade against one of the UK divers who was part of the rescue of the Wild Boars, after the diver claimed his mini-submarine was a PR stunt. | | | | On the biggest weekend of the sporting year, the most striking moment was the head-to-head contest between two African-born players in a game that would have baffled their ancestors, writes Richard Hinds. | |  |
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