| | | 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. | | | Liberal MP Julia Banks's statement has thrown the the Liberal Party into damage control. It is the very definition of "transactional cost" of changing prime minister, but it points to a bigger problem, writes Patricia Karvelas. | | | | Westpac will increase its variable mortgage rates to counter rising funding costs that are threatening the bank's profit margins. | | | | Muzz Buzz leases the land, but franchisee Kimdelia Cole owns the building. After her relationship with the company turned sour, Ms Cole resorted to a "black ops" mission under the cover of darkness to pick up her shop and take it away. | | | | Former treasurer Peter Costello says the next step for the banking royal commission will be to find out why regulators were not awake at the wheel. | | | | The US Open has been engulfed by a controversy over perceived sexism after Alize Cornet was handed a code violation for briefly removing a shirt she had put on backwards in the locker room. | | | | Police arrest a 34-year-old man after offering a $500,000 reward to help solve a brutal sexual assault in North Melbourne five years ago. | | | | Julie Bishop's farewell appearance as foreign minister set some hares running about her future, but the real message is that Australia's highest-profile female politician is ready to move on to a post-political life, writes Michelle Grattan. | | | | The University of Sydney's student magazine, Honi Soit, is refusing to remove a controversial article that both praises North Korea and was written by a former tutor that's been accused of antisemitism. | | | | John Glynn was eight years old when he was sent from the UK to Australia, where he suffered sexual abuse and severe emotional neglect. Now, months after compensation for child migrants was recommended, advocates say they see no sign of any action being taken by the UK government. | | | | Long after the movie that featured it faded from memory, a 16-year-old hip-hop song remains a workout anthem. Lose Yourself in our chart of the day. | | | | A woman and her son, from South Sudan, are jailed for four years for rorting almost $1 million from the Australian Government in a childcare scam in Melbourne's western suburbs. | | | | Foodora went into administration owing unpaid wages and superannuation, penalties and interest in Australia — and $28.3 million in "loans" to its German parent company Delivery Hero. | | | | Some imams in Australia are still teaching that the Koran permits husbands to beat their wives, with police reporting Muslim men cite scripture to justify their abuse. Now a new generation of faith leaders is working to undo the damage. | | | | Experts are hopeful they may be able to recover the remains of a suspected meteor that lit up the sky above Perth and the surrounding area overnight, prompting a deluge of calls about sightings to authorities. | | | | Years of banking reform and the fallout from the banking royal commission has led to a recent spike in the number of failed mortgage refinancing applications. It's being described as a 'mortgage mirage' — an offer from the bank that looks too good to be true and, as it turns out, for many it is. | | | | Federal Labor says Peter Dutton must explain whether generous political donations had any influence on his decision to help a French au pair into the country. His office flatly denies any wrongdoing. | | | | When Malcolm Turnbull leaves Parliament, electoral data reveals he will take his personal popularity in Wentworth — and possibly the Liberals' 17.7 per cent buffer there — with him. | | | | Police are investigating after the bodies of Erica Bond, 47, and her nine-year-old son were discovered in a home on the NSW Central Coast yesterday, as heartbroken members of the community post tributes on social media. | | | | Adelaide's ersatz German cabaret wunderkind Hans throws down the gauntlet at the America's Got Talent live finals, wowing judges with a customised performance of the song Spice Up Your Life. | | | | The father of a six-year-old Canberra boy missing since Thursday describes feeling anger, hopelessness, and desperation, as police reveal they have serious concerns for the child. | | | | Pollution from an old mine has made a northern Queensland major river into a toxic contamination zone, with the government warning residents not to drink, swim or use the water. | |  |
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