| | | | Hannah Quinn screamed "what the f*** have you done?" after her boyfriend and co-accused allegedly swung a samurai sword down on rapper Jett McKee last week, a court hears | | | | Families with children on their way to holidays, some young French revellers heading to a music festival, Albanian migrant workers completing their next cleaning job and a Chilean couple who sought haven from the Pinochet regime are among the victims of the Morandi bridge tragedy in Genoa. | | | | WA Health Department executives enjoyed all-expenses paid trips to the UK, Canada and China, lavish lunches totalling more than $50,000 and thousands of dollars in cash bribes from contractors to whom they awarded lucrative work, a corruption probe reveals. | | | | Solar panels are good bang for buck, but what about solar batteries? Has the price dropped enough to make it worthwhile for you? We asked scientists, industry analysts, consumer advocates and a battery user to tell us what they think. | | | | They may look pretty, but with energy consumption being put under the microscope corporations are being asked why office buildings in Sydney's sparkling CBD need to keep the lights on all night. | | | | A rural Victorian community has started a global campaign to stop water being extracted from its local water table for bottling, in what has been described as a David-and-Goliath battle. | | | | The man accused of murdering Korean exchange student Eunji Ban told psychiatrists in 2016 he was exaggerating his symptoms and would prefer to be found unfit for trial because any other outcome would "distress his mother", a court hears. | | | | The Communications Minister moves to stop NBN Co from jacking up prices for customers in the bush, after a Labor press conference highlighting the change. | | | | A little-known scheme dishing out free "nationhood material" has seen dozens of MPs running out of portraits of the Queen to give away to keen constituents, but one MP is asking people to pass a constitutional pop quiz first. | | | | The developers of the $2 billion project are yet to lodge a planning application, but some experts are sceptical that it'll even get that far. | | | | A celebrity Brazilian plastic surgeon famous for his buttock-enhancing operations is charged with murder about a month after one of his patients died following a procedure at his apartment in Rio de Janeiro. | | | | If the media could take a step back from jumping on every sensational statement politicians utter and actually ask harder policy questions of our elected leaders, it would be doing the public a favour, writes James Norman. | | | | Medical expenses for specialists, GP gap payments and other non-hospital services are on the up despite record bulk-billing rates, according to a report into the health and welfare of Australians. | | | | In some cities around the globe, just breathing the air pretty much makes you a chain smoker. | | | | A killer who was dropped off by police at the home of his victim — who was later found dead on his kitchen floor with a fruit cake on his head — is found guilty of murder, but his alleged accomplice is acquitted. | | | | The husband of Dreamworld victim Cindy Low fears safety at the theme park "hasn't changed too much" since the 2016 disaster claimed the lives of four people. | | | | A mother who killed three of her children after driving her four-wheel-drive into a lake in Melbourne's outer south-west has her sentence reduced by eight-and-a-half years on appeal. | | | | Mobs of emus have marched into Broken Hill in far west New South Wales, running laps of the main street, eating gardens and gate crashing football matches. | | | | Many skimpies work long days and late nights as fly-in fly-out labourers around WA, but behind their smiles they battle the stigma of their work. | | | | If companies are making money off your data, why can't you? Artist Jennifer Morone asked herself just that — and turned the tables on big business by becoming a legal corporation. | | | | Lewis Jetta speaks out about the war dance performed by fellow Aboriginal footballer and friend Adam Goodes, which prompted a torrent of abuse and by the end of the season had brought about the retirement of one of the greats of the game. | |  |
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