| | | | Australia's 30th Prime Minister Scott Morrison begins his first day in the job discussing possible ministerial appointments with his colleagues, as Liberals jostle for positions on the new-look frontbench. | | | | For a few days Australians seriously reckoned with the idea of Peter Dutton as prime minister. Opinion polls show he may not be popular with the public, but that does not mean the issues he champions are not resonating, writes Stan Grant. | | | | The new prime minister will be under pressure to win the centre, "the base" and the right. But he will be trying to appeal these very disparate audiences from the position of a politician who polls tell us is less well regarded than the man he will replace, writes Laura Tingle. | | | | Rashida was not allowed to go to school and had never seen a foreigner. Fleeing the extreme restrictions of Rakhine, she got a huge shock when a health worker suspected she was pregnant and took her to a clinic. | | | | US President Donald Trump and Australia's new Prime Minister hold their first phone call, less than a day after Scott Morrison took over the top job. | | | | The exodus of migrants from Venezuela is building toward a "crisis moment" comparable to events involving refugees in the Mediterranean, according to the United Nations migration agency. | | | | Bec Rawlings is a mother, a joker, an athlete, a pin-up, a domestic abuse survivor ... and the only woman to win a legal bare-knuckle bout this century. | | | | The 66-year-old Australian actor is accused of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman at a house in Randwick, in Sydney's eastern suburbs, more than 40 years ago. | | | | The racing future of champion sprinter Chautauqua seems all but over, with 'The Grey Flash' being narrowly beaten after failing to leave the barriers with the rest of the field in a special barrier trial at Rosehill Gardens. | | | | When he chose to end his life, Mr Beilby had to tell the police none of his family assisted him, to avoid them being charged with a crime. But this may change with new moves to legislate voluntary euthanasia laws in WA. | | | | A man allegedly carrying $1 million worth of the drug ice in his underpants is arrested at Hobart Airport, only a day after two men are caught allegedly carrying cocaine and methamphetamine from Sydney. | | | | Tesla's CEO says he made the decision not to take the electric car company private based on feedback from shareholders, including institutional investors who said they were limited in how much money they could sink into the company. | | | | The Titans host the Storm and later the Roosters take on the Broncos, after the Raiders produce a big comeback win in the capital. Follow all the live scores, stats and commentary. | | | | BBC listeners were left wondering what happened when a report from Hawaii was suddenly interrupted by a loud cracking noise followed by muffled cries of pain. | | | | Fremantle hosts Collingwood, Adelaide visits Carlton and Sydney plays Hawthorn after the Cats thrash the Suns and the Tigers hang on against the Bulldogs. Follow all the live scores, stats and commentary. | | | | John McCain, the maverick Republican senator who survived a Vietnam War prison camp and ran unsuccessfully for president, is discontinuing medical treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer, his family says. | | | | Police and the Stadium Management Authority are investigating a fight between spectators that marred last night's Port Adelaide v Essendon AFL match at Adelaide Oval. | | | | Zimbabwe's economy is in a parlous state after nearly 40 years of rule by Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party. The country has no currency of its own, and 90 per cent of people work in unofficial jobs, but still, the same party is ruling the country. | | | | Firefighters struggle to tame a wildfire south-west of Berlin, manoeuvring carefully as the blaze sets off old World War II ammunition that is still buried in the forests around the German capital. | | | | US President Donald Trump abruptly cancels his top diplomat's planned trip to North Korea, publicly acknowledging for the first time that his effort to get Pyongyang to denuclearise has stalled since his summit with North Korea's leader. | | | | Johnathan Thurston kept a lid on his emotions after guiding the Cowboys to a comfortable victory in his final home game in Townsville. | | | | Donald Trump's finance chief, a confidant who has worked for the family's real estate business since the early 1970s, is granted immunity in the federal probe of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. | | | | Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has labelled the WA housing minister's approach racist amid an increasingly poisonous dispute over the funding of Indigenous housing in remote communities. | | | | Lawyers for the banking royal commission recommend the Commonwealth Bank and the National Australia Bank face criminal charges over their treatment of superannuation customers. | | | | Hundreds make the trip to the remote Northern Territory town of Kalkarindji to celebrate one of the most significant protests in Indigenous land rights history. | |  |
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