| | | 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. | | | Asked this morning if she believed the Liberal Party would ever bring itself to elect a popular female leader, Julie Bishop delivered her response with maximum steel. But she loves to speak in code, writes Annabel Crabb. | | | | Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton personally intervened to release a French au pair from immigration detention and stop her being deported after his office was lobbied by AFL boss Gillon McLachlan, documents show. | | | | Two senior figures from the massive southern Queensland cotton operation Norman Farming face court in Brisbane accused of defrauding the Commonwealth of $20 million in Murray-Darling water funding. | | | | No-one in the Morrison Government can say who will be taking the reins of the financial services portfolio, despite the scandal-plagued sector hurtling towards upheaval thanks to the banking royal commission. | | | | Australia's new drought envoy Barnaby Joyce wants water being held for the environment to be given to farmers to grow feed crops for livestock. | | | | The New South Wales Government is facing additional legal action as more than 60 businesses join together to seek around $40 million in compensation from the disruption caused by Sydney's light rail project. | | | | What we're seeing on Nauru, we've seen time and time before, as a result of extreme violence, war, famine and terror. Tiny children draw pictures of blood, weapons, barbed wire and sadness and tears to try and make sense of what they're experiencing, writes Susanne Legena. | | | | Descendants of Albert Namatjira's family are paid an undisclosed sum by the Northern Territory Government, after the public trustee sold the copyright to Namatjira's works in 1983 without consulting the family. | | | | The mother of an Aboriginal man who died after being restrained by prison staff tells an inquest she only found out he was in hospital after he did not appear for a scheduled court hearing. | | | | In the Northern Territory, public servants work until 4:21pm (4:51pm in southern states). What's behind this odd number? Curious Darwin investigates. | | | | The Government is effectively shelving changes to industry super boards that would require independent directors, focusing instead on the scandals plaguing for-profit funds. | | | | The lawyer who helped expose an Australian spying operation on its ally Timor-Leste was given a chilling warning by the Government about his upcoming book. | | | | A spokesperson for Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton says 17 suspected asylum seekers found in far north Queensland have been moved to detention on Christmas Island. | | | | Canadian tennis player Felix Auger-Aliassime called for a doctor during his third set against compatriot and friend Denis Shapovalov before being forced to retire in the first round of the US Open. | | | | Last week, Scotland became the first country to offer free sanitary products to students at schools and universities. But in Australia, where the campaign to get rid of the 10 per cent GST on tampons has been grinding on for years, we're a long way off. | | | | There's no denying the housing boom is over, and it's forcing property developers — like Meriton owner Harry Triguboff — to reassess their projects. | | | | The costly rail tunnel promised by the Labor Government would connect the western and eastern suburbs via the airport, and link all major train lines, but would take decades to build and need federal and private funds. | | | | Federal Labor backbencher Emma Husar says "slut-shaming" was behind her decision not to recontest the Sydney seat of Lindsay at the next election. | | | | In his final letter to US citizens released days after his death, John McCain decries the "resentment and hatred and violence" that have sprung from "tribal rivalries", while Donald Trump orders the White House flag be returned to half-mast. | | | | The unregulated killing of dingoes will soon be legal in WA, considered no different to wild dogs from 2019 under reforms to the state's Biodiversity Conservation Act. | | | | Caring for a friend or relative with mental illness can mean missing out on education and employment opportunities. A national campaign is aiming to set that right. | | | | Speaking out after his father lost the Liberal leadership, Alex Turnbull described Australia's energy policy as 10 years of "panic and mania", and said it made no economic sense to build new coal-fired power plants. | | | | We like to think of Earth as having a lot of water, but we've got nothing compared to watery giants that scientists say could be orbiting stars far away. | |  |
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