| | | | If you feel confused about just where everyone stands on the National Energy Guarantee as the week ends, you are not the only one, writes Laura Tingle. | | | | One person is in police custody after a mass shooting in the eastern Canadian city of Fredericton, in which at least four people died. | | | | It was a dispiriting week examining superannuation at the banking royal commission, but for those wanting a searing examination of industry funds the disappointment only got worse. | | | | This is a story about the dawn of Great Barrier Reef conservation, and how a few important players raised hell and had the ear of a prime minister. | | | | The "tampon tax" is set to be axed, but advocates say there is still more work to be done to take the "sexism" out of the GST, especially for breastfeeding mums. | | | | After Elon Musk's social media antics, it is easy to forget he has cars to deliver — but there are Australians who have not forgotten. | | | | A fight involving dozens of young Sudanese-Australian people in Melbourne has led to renewed debate about crime and policing. What can we learn from the latest crime statistics? | | | | Australia wastes the majority of its recycled water that could be used on food crops — and farmers and local councils say it is a disgrace and want it made available for agriculture. | | | | An Indian politician with a history of appearing in Parliament wearing different costumes, dons a toothbrush moustache and a khaki coat with swastika symbols to send a message to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. | | | | Australia's most decorated soldier says he denies "any physical abuse of any woman, at any time, ever" as he breaks his silence over rumours and allegations of misconduct. | | | | Apartment residents secure $100,000 to transform their stark, concrete outdoor areas into green havens to combat the effects of climate change. | | | | Videos have emerged online showing hundreds of China's Hui Muslim minority protesting against a government decision to demolish a new mosque, which officials say was built without proper planning approval. | | | | An investigation into Labor backbencher Emma Husar finds she subjected staff to unreasonable management including disciplinary methods, but that the leaking of complaints against her was reprehensible. | | | | Pacific Island rugby groups are calling for greater representation on the World Rugby Council, saying that the Pacific barely has a voice on the governing body despite Pacific Islanders making up one in five players. | | | | One of Australia's oldest confectionary companies, Darrell Lea, is planning to expand into ice cream and muffins six years after it nearly went under. | | | | A police helicopter and canine unit are searching for a man and a woman in Sydney's inner-west after another man is killed in a "violent" and "targeted" attack. | | | | A Perth woman pleads guilty to being part of a child sex ring linked to "swinging" parties that involved the abuse of her young daughter by herself and two other men. | | | | Tennessee conducts its first execution since 2009, administering a controversial lethal injection cocktail to a man convicted of the 1985 rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl he was babysitting. | | | | A man charged with murdering Brisbane bus driver Manmeet Alisher by throwing a homemade "bomb" onto his bus in 2016 is declared unfit for trial by the Mental Health Court. | | | | Police in the German city of Karlsruhe rush to help a man being followed by a baby squirrel after he made an emergency call, saying the little creature would not let him go. | |  |
By business reporter Daniel Ziffer | |  |
By Laura Tingle | |  |
By Vivienne Westbrook | |  |
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