| | | | An Australian family travelling with their two small children begged staff to let them onto a ferry to get away from the earthquake destruction on the popular tourist island of Gili Trawangan. | | | | The banking royal commission continued its hearings into superannuation with further evidence from NAB about how its MLC super funds charged thousands of customers fees for no service. | | | | A street arrest that left a man bloodied and with serious head injuries is now the subject of a Victoria Police investigation, as his friend says officers used "excessive force" after the man had an epileptic seizure. | | | | In the late 1970s, Ron Stallworth hoodwinked the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. This is the inside story of how he did it — and why he thinks racism has only gotten worse. | | | | Passengers whose medical devices have triggered security alarms and required pat-downs while going through Australian airports say they are at risk of being robbed and are calling for an overhaul of the system. | | | | A 13-year-old girl accused of assaulting another teenager in a suburban football match, leaving her partially blind and with spinal injuries, is blocked by a court from playing and attending games later this month. | | | | A raid on a desert compound in search of a missing young boy with severe medical issues finds 11 other children wearing rags and living among "odorous trash" with no clean water. | | | | The majority of large earthquakes occur on or near Earth's tectonic plate boundaries — and the ones in the past week are no exception. However, there are some unique conditions around Lombok. | | | | They are striking, fat-trunked trees unique to parts of the Kimberley and a small section of the Top End, but the two scientists studying how they came from Africa or Madagascar have widely different explanations. | | | | David Degning, a grandfather who was convicted of having sex with a person with a cognitive impairment in 2013, says he's "devastated" after being ordered home to the United Kingdom. | | | | Reusable supermarket shopping bags are much sturdier than their bin-liner predecessors, but consider this: overseas studies suggest buying reusable bags every time you shop is worse than just using plastic, writes Trevor Thornton. | | | | Australian actor Bruce Roland Carter was on drugs when he bit off parts of the ear of a so-called 'good Samaritan' who stopped to help him after a car crash, an Adelaide court is told. | | | | Only a third of retirees are living on what the experts call a comfortable level of income, and there are growing fears younger Australians are not contributing enough to their low super balances — which means they could be wholly dependent on the age pension and at risk of poverty. | | | | Subcontractors working on the Matagarup footbridge to Perth Stadium and major infrastructure projects across the country are left chasing payments after engineering company York Civil entered voluntary administration. | | | | A man who seriously injured a young mother and her toddler on a "catastrophic" fishing trip has avoided jail time, after being described as a "man of good character". | | | | A rare fungal superbug known as Candida auris — which can cause serious infections of the bloodstream, wound and ear — is found for the first time in Victoria. | | | | After shutting the door to Australia and the world's scrap imports, China is now waging a rubbish revolution on the home front to deal with a mounting waste crisis. | | | | Italian authorities say two people are dead, at least 60 people injured and a bridge has partially collapsed following a major explosion on a highway near the northern city of Bologna. | | | | According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' population clock, Australia will pass the 25 million mark at about 11:00pm tonight. And the milestone person is most likely to be a young, female Chinese student. | | | | Craig Lapsley had "not always conducted himself in accordance with the very high standards expected of him", Victoria's Emergency Services Minister says, as the Emergency Management Commissioner tenders his resignation. | | | | A US man who was filmed harassing a one-tonne bison in Yellowstone National Park is arrested in Glacier National Park in his third disturbance in less than a week at a national park. | |  |
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