| | | | A former Greens staff member says the party failed her when she complained about sexual misconduct. She feels let down and she is not alone. | | | | Apple becomes the first $1 trillion publicly listed US company, crowning a decade-long rise fuelled by its ubiquitous iPhone that transformed it from a niche player in personal computers into a global powerhouse. | | | | Prominent Mount Isa vet Ed Butterworth is jailed for rape and indecent assault, after a court ruled he was guilty of assaulting a university student in 2015. | | | | Islamic State militants killed her family and friends, sold her children in slave markets and raped her up to 10 times day. But Yazidi woman Berivan Halo counts herself as one of the lucky ones. | | | | The group managing director of beverage giant Coca-Cola Amatil, Alison Watkins, says that sugar consumption in Australia is down while obesity rates have risen. But RMIT ABC Fact Check finds that claim to be spin. | | | | PMS symptoms can be as severe as crippling pain and suicidal thoughts, and it can have an impact on a woman's career. But one GP wants women to know they don't have to suffer. | | | | Traditional owners fighting Adani's proposed Carmichael mine appeal to the United Nations to urgently intervene by formally censuring Australia at a meeting in Geneva this month, accusing authorities of "violating" an international pact against racial discrimination by wiping out their native title rights. | | | | Two lineages of short humans on the Indonesian island of Flores evolved separately tens of thousands of years apart, according to the DNA of pygmy people living today. | | | | Donald Trump's top national security chiefs say Russia is behind attempts to interfere in upcoming US elections, in a rejection of the denials of meddling that Russian President Vladimir Putin made directly to the US President. | | | | Sugary drinks and unhealthy snacks will no longer be sold in public hospitals and aged care centres under a new proposal, with the Queensland Government also cracking down on advertising targeted at children. | | | | Two Australian men are the latest to speak out about botched hernia mesh operations that result in people vomiting faeces, as surgeons say complication rates are low. | | | | A young NSW boy is facing a lengthy recovery after a gruesome accident of a kind paramedics say happens all too often. | | | | A Canberra academic loses his fight to keep teaching students, after a past conviction for abusing several children when he was a school teacher came to light. | | | | Sport Australia's new national sports plan may be short on detail, but it hits the nail on the head by urging an increased focus on participation at all levels over subsidising elite programs, writes Richard Hinds. | | | | Executive salaries haven't grown much over the past decade, but CEO bonuses are huge compared to average incomes. This raises the question of whether companies are abiding by the conditions of their social licence, writes Julie Walker. | | | | More than 1,000 confidential medical records are abandoned on the floor of a former aged-care facility operated by the NSW Government. | | | | The late entertainment heavyweight Harry M Miller once served a meal of beef, whipped cream and strawberries to Prince Charles. Now, he's being remembered as a visionary who brought "game-changing" live acts to Australia. | | | | Japan is pushing for a restructure of the International Whaling Commission that would make it easier to pass decisions — a move it hopes will make it easier to eventually resume commercial whaling. | | | | The term "revenge porn" has become a misnomer, particularly as it relates to new criminal legislation in the ACT, and creates "shame and embarrassment" in victims, police say. | | | | Proposed laws to shine a light on modern slavery may be too weak to have a real impact, according to the Law Council of Australia. | | | | Despite grave fears for the 29-year-old who failed to return on Monday from a solo climb of Mount Aspiring in the South Island, he is found with just "slight frostbite". | |  |
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By Offsiders columnist Richard Hinds | |  |
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