| | A former AMP planner describes the company as a "dictatorship" and says he was pressured to sell in-house products, including to a client who would have been left thousands of dollars a year worse off. | | | US President Donald Trump says it is looking more like his 2016 campaign for the presidential election was illegally spied upon, and says there is "little doubt" that intelligence agencies misled the courts that approved the warrant. | | | Ruben McDornan, the sole survivor of the trawler Dianne that capsized off the Queensland coast last year, tells Nine's 60 Minutes he heard banging from inside the overturned boat as it sank with his crewmen on board. | | | For the tribe handling the $2.6 trillion in Australian superannuation savings, the financial year just ended has been an absolute ripper. How much longer it can continue, however, is increasingly being questioned, writes Ian Verrender. | | | The AFL has voracious appetite for change, but its most heated battle this year is between those who want to rule changes that would alter the very nature of the sport, or those who think with a few relatively minor tweaks things will sort themselves out, writes Richard Hinds. | | | Thirteen years after 'that' no-look flick pass which won the Wests Tigers their only NRL premiership, Benji Marshall is talking about mentoring young players instead of making chip kicks and sidesteps. | | | Afghanistan's Vice-President, a former Uzbek warlord, escapes unharmed from an explosion near the airport as he returned home on Sunday after living in Turkey for over a year. | | | Iranian President Hassan Rouhani cautions US President Donald Trump about pursuing hostile policies against Tehran, saying "America should know … war with Iran is the mother of all wars," state news agency IRNA reports. | | | A scathing report about the Canberra Hospital's radiology department obtained by the ABC cites serious risk to trainees' wellbeing, and a "great risk" to patients. | | | A Tiwi Island couple who have kept an art workshop for artists with a disability running for 20 years say they are too old to keep the community lifeline going without further funding and support. | | | South African police say gunmen have opened fire on a minibus carrying members of a taxi drivers' association, killing 11 people and critically wounding four others. | | | The family of a young girl who took her own life have opened up about their devastation. But their story is all too common in remote WA. | | | With large pieces of fish farming equipment regularly breaking loose and drifting in Tasmanian waters in rough weather, the salmon industry's expansion into Storm Bay has many in the local boating community worried. | | | An emotional tribute is held for Perth woman Michelle Peterson and her two children Rua and Bella who were all killed in their Ellenbrook home earlier this month. | | | Friends pay tribute to soccer-loving 19-year-old Laa Chol, who was killed during a party at a short-stay apartment in Melbourne on Saturday after a dispute broke out between two groups of young people. | | | "Pranksters" who tied a garden hose across a street, seriously injuring a man on an early morning ride, are labelled cowards and criminals by a cycling advocacy group. | | | A Victorian conman has managed to secretly bankrupt his enemies, including his own family, over debts that he simply made up. Antonio Dattilo buried his victims in legal bills as they tried to clear their names. | | | The Israeli military says it has rescued members of a Syrian volunteer civil organization from the volatile border area on the Golan Heights before reportedly evacuating them to Jordan in an "exceptional humanitarian gesture" it says was done at the request of the United States. | | | Passengers are becoming used to flights being cancelled due to weather, or even volcanoes, but now a new trend is beginning to upset travel plans across the country. Airlines are cancelling flights, even entire routes, because there is nobody to fly the plane. | | | Beneath Helsinki's surface lies nearly 500 separate underground facilities and 300 kilometres of tunnels that exist as the last line of defence against Finland's superpower neighbour. | | | By Offsiders columnist Richard Hinds | | | By business editor Ian Verrender | | | By business reporter Stephen Letts | | | By Louise Glanville | | | | | The ABC sent this message to starnewsposting@gmail.com these details are included to help provide assurance that this is a genuine email from ABC.
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