| | | | A Thai navy source, speaking anonymously, told the ABC three factors are driving the urgency — the water level inside the cave, the amount of oxygen available, and the health of the boys and their coach. | | | | Two teenagers are dead and their mother is being supported by friends after a suspected domestic violence incident at a house in West Pennant Hills, in Sydney's north-west. Police are now searching for the father, the ABC understands. | | | | The poisoning of two Britons with the Novichok nerve agent looks like an unfortunate after-effect of the attempted murder in March of a former Russian agent and his daughter, Britain's Health Minister says. | | | | From LinkedIn to Ticketmaster, it can feel like your personal information is lost or stolen every day. Experts are worried people are tuning out. | | | | US Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, who pleased US President Donald Trump by rolling back environmental regulations but came under fire for a variety of ethics accusations, resigns. | | | | Hundreds of volunteers have set up a 24-hour tent city in the middle of a remote national park to help support the operation to find and rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach, with ordinary people travelling from around the country to support the rescue effort. | | | | Former premier Colin Barnett has scored himself a posthumous victory, politically at least. Throughout the resources boom he demanded WA receive no less than 75 cents of each dollar it collects as GST — yesterday Scott Morrison delivered, Ian Verrender writes. | | | | A ranger at the Sibuya Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape discovered human remains close to a pride of lions on Tuesday afternoon. An axe and three pairs of shoes and gloves were found later when police and an anti-poaching unit arrived. | | | | England is pushing the limits at the World Cup under manager Gareth Southgate and the ploy may just pay off as the tournament approaches its business end, writes Richard Hinds. | | | | Brass fittings and taps found to cause elevated levels of lead in drinking water continue to be installed in homes, businesses and schools, experts say. | | | | New South Wales police have been opening cars and checking for valuables as part of an effort to remind people to lock their cars and prevent vehicle break-ins. | | | | Sleep apnoea, which occurs when muscles in the throat relax, causing the sufferer's airway to block, is a new risk factor for dementia, Australian research finds. | | | | Is bringing long-extinct animals back from the dead a good idea? Some scientists think so, and are trying their hardest to make it happen. | | | | Documents obtained by the ABC under freedom of information reveal the country's most senior government department is grappling with the gender pay gap. | | | | Foodora's riders tell the ABC they are forced to complete against each other in a hierarchical "batch" system. It could be a deciding factor in the two lawsuits which the company is currently fighting. | | | | A draft development application for a woodchip export facility near Dover reveals there would be truck movements every five minutes between Judbury and Strathblane 10 hours a day, six days a week. | | | | One hundred years after his death, Private Robert Bowness finally has a name on his gravestone — and it's thanks to his great niece's efforts to find him. | | | | Defence FOI documents on missing, lost or recovered military ordnance reveal dozens of incidents in the two years to 2017, including the discovery of explosives in a Hunter Valley National Park. | | | | Surgeons are performing heart procedures, such as pacemaker implants, with the help of health technicians who are employed by the device manufacturers and have sales targets, industry insiders claim. | | | | If Europe's mainstream politicians don't finally grasp the nettle on migration, the dire risk is a tidal wave of extremists flooding the European Parliament at elections in May, writes Richard Ogier. | | | | Five generations of the Carter family have lived on their patch of land for nearly 100 years but over the past decade, like the Kerrigans in classic Australian movie The Castle, they've been battling to keep it. | |  |
By state political reporter Chris O'Brien | |  |
By Offsiders columnist Richard Hinds | |  |
By business editor Ian Verrender | |  |
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