| | A Perth father who stabbed his son to death before watching the AFL grand final with friends is sentenced to life in jail with a minimum of 18 years, but his two children who buried the body could walk free in weeks. | | | Embattled Labor backbencher Emma Husar categorically denies the latest inappropriate conduct allegations levelled against her, calling them "completely untrue, unfair and hurtful beyond belief, 100 per cent false". | | | Senators are questioning the controversial decision to give nearly half-a-billion dollars to a small Great Barrier Reef charity, after it emerged there were no departmental officials at a "secret" meeting attended by the Prime Minister. | | | Food delivery company Foodora is closing down in Australia, saying it wants to "shift [its] focus towards other markets where the company currently sees a higher potential for growth". | | | Dick Smith has blamed Aldi for the closure of his food brands — and said the supermarket chain will be coming for Coles and Woolworths next. But he's got their strategy wrong, write Tom Osegowitsch and Angela McCabe. | | | The consumer watchdog hopes new figures on the recalled Takata airbags will put manufacturers on notice to replace "ticking time bombs" as quickly as possible. | | | The erosion of the boundaries between private and work spheres is well established. But the perils of social media "opinion creep" mean everything can be notionally viewed as work-related, writes David Rowe. | | | Police declare a crime scene at a home in Mango Hill after a woman's body is found at the property, north of Brisbane, and a man is taken to hospital with self-inflicted wounds. | | | The supermarket giant Woolworths and a Victorian-based subcontractor are charged over the death of a 47-year-old itinerant man, who was run over after falling asleep in a loading dock in Darwin. | | | The child was mauled at a home in Gippsland by a German wirehaired pointer, which was voluntarily surrendered and euthanased. | | | A Victorian coroner finds a Melbourne woman who was reported to have died in a weightlifting accident was the victim of homicide. | | | A man who bashed a Pakistani teaching student after an intimate encounter in a Perth apartment block stairwell, leaving her in a wheelchair, is sentenced to more than nine years' jail. | | | Sitting on a beach, bestselling author Jill Stark got friends to take a photo of her, which she Instagrammed with the hashtag 'blessed'. Really, she says, she was "dying inside". | | | When Akshay Venkatesh was 13 years old and had completed his high school studies, he told the ABC he was aiming to "maybe become a mathematician". Well, that came true — and he's now achieved his subject's highest honour. | | | ANZ becomes the first big lender to cut its variable home loan rate for new customers as the banks slug it out for business in a tightening market. | | | A new piece of street art in south-west Victoria was supposed to last a day or two. That was until a local man decided that wasn't long enough. | | | An Australian arrested in Serbia over a massive cocaine haul claims he went sightseeing in Paris with the AFP officers tasked with bringing him to Australia, taking their photos at the Eiffel Tower and being given a prime opportunity to escape. | | | The estranged husband of Samantha Fraser — a mother of three who was found dead at her home on Victoria's Phillip Island last week — appears in court charged with murder. | | | A surveillance camera captures a family's lucky escape, with a man grabbing his child to flee along with the family dog just before an electric scooter charging in the living room explodes. | | | It's been nearly a decade in the making. Now, researchers say they're excited about the drug's potential as "an entirely new weapon for fighting cancer". | | | Coles puts a deadline on its decision to hand out free plastic bags after yesterday saying shoppers "need more time to make the transition to reusable bags". | | | A Melbourne family is concerned at how their 86-year-old mother with early-stage dementia could be signed up to an energy account, issued a $2,500 bill, and then chased by a collection agency. | | | In a solemn ceremony, the United States welcomes home human remains it says presumably includes Americans killed in the 1950-1953 Korean War. | | | By David Rowe | | | By Tom Osegowitsch and Angela McCabe | | | By Nicola Heath | | | By Clint Thomas | | | | | 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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