| | | The Best Stories are Yours We want to know what the ABC means to you, your family, your community. Share your memory of the ABC with us. You can upload it to social media using the #ABCyours hashtag. See how other Australians are sharing their stories here. | | | These young people are carving a new future for Chinese international students in Australia. | | | | Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and former foreign affairs minister Julie Bishop were among a list of potential targets allegedly documented in the notebook of a Sri Lankan man charged with a terrorism-related offence, a police source confirms. | | | | Four years into my relationship with my partner, I realised I was continuing a cycle of abuse. I am a survivor of family sexual abuse who was raised by a child molester, and I was releasing my rage on the closest person to me, writes Raquel O'Brien. | | | | Visiting your doctor isn't the same as logging into Facebook, but for how long? The growth in health data is leading some experts to call for a new "social contract" — a fresh negotiation of trust between patients and the groups that want their most intimate information. | | | | There was one particular dynamic at work last week that we need to think about a lot more if politics is ever going to make sense at some time in the future, writes Laura Tingle. | | | | A sweet potato abundance has prompted some big thinkers from far north Queensland to trial transforming the surplus into flour. | | | | Queensland police say the man in his 30s was critically injured outside a home in Rockhampton after officers had been called to a domestic incident. | | | | The former fastest-man-in-the-world makes his professional football debut for the Central Coast, but in 19 minutes he wasn't able to make much of an impact. | | | | A chance meeting with nuns in a Manila bar led to the founding of a unique humanitarian enterprise that draws professional hairdressers, including international stars of the industry, to the slums of Asia in the hope of drawing thousands out of poverty, writes Freya Petersen. | | | | With computers getting better at "creative thinking", digital artist Chris Rodley thinks we may be approaching a watershed moment. | | | | A Detroit church swells with gospel music for the funeral of Aretha Franklin, driving mourners to their feet to clap and sing ahead of tributes to the queen of soul by former US president Bill Clinton and singer Stevie Wonder. | | | | We don't need an immigration solution for our childcare problem, we need something that is affordable for everyone, writes Lisa Bryant. | | | | Documentary maker James Ricketson is sentenced to six years in a Cambodian prison for espionage, despite a prosecution that offered little evidence to support the charge. | | | | Washington's bitterly divided leaders come together to praise the late senator John McCain as an embodiment of America's fighting spirit, idealism and sense of humour, but there was one notable absentee: President Donald Trump. | | | | The leader of Russian-backed separatists in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine is killed in a blast at a cafe in Donetsk city, according to the separatist administration. | | | | Tucked away in an unconventional animal sanctuary in the middle of a forest, one woman is toiling away tirelessly — work that for the past 25 years has saved thousands of native animals. | | | | Once part of what was known as the Koori State of Origin, the Crookhaven Magpies Rugby League Club is making a grand return to competition, and their resurgence is having a major social impact. | | | | The ABC can also reveal that a Hells Angel facing charges in South Australia over a massive alleged drug importation was a director of the company through which the accountant owns the factory. | | | | Australia and Indonesia have pledge closer strategic ties in the Indian and Pacific Oceans in what is being seen as a sign of growing concern about China's militarisation in the South China Sea. | | | | In its formal response to the recommendations of the child abuse royal commission, the Catholic Church says it will not accept a recommendation to break the seal of confession, arguing it impinges on religious liberties. | | | | The news prompts discussion about what justice looks like for the victims of this behaviour, particularly in comedy, a world long familiar with sexism and gender inequality. | |  |
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