| | | | A noon showdown for the leadership of the Liberal Party today may seal the political fate of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and decide who becomes the next prime minister: Peter Dutton, Julie Bishop or Scott Morrison. | | | | Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is waiting for a petition with the names of 43 MPs who want him out of the leadership, as well as advice from the Solicitor-General on whether Peter Dutton is eligible to sit in the Parliament, before he'll call a party room meeting for a leadership spill. Follow our live coverage. | | | | Fundamentally, the ballot for Liberal leader is about the sort of face the party wants to turn to the Australian people, because any of the candidates would probably lose the election, writes Michelle Grattan. | | | | The Prime Minister's demand to see the names of those seeking a spill is classic, back-to-the-wall Malcolm Turnbull — looking for legal loopholes and delaying tactics and never giving in, writes Annabel Crabb. | | | | Police say brick pavers were hurled through the windows and doors of Peter Dutton's electorate office north of Brisbane, with the attack taking place just before 2:00am. | | | | Malcolm Turnbull calls out the partyroom "bullies", questions Peter Dutton's eligibility to lead the country and refuses to give in to the insurgency and "madness" that he says has overcome the Liberal Party. | | | | Peter Dutton is leading a rebellion against Malcolm Turnbull in a war for the top job. This is what Australia might look like with him at the helm. | | | | Anger, embarrassment, disgust: Our Facebook Messenger audience have told us how they feel about everything that has gone down in Canberra. | | | | US President says he doesn't know "how you can impeach somebody who's done a great job" but warns if it was to happen there would be dire consequences and "everyone would be very poor". | | | | An Amber Alert is issued after a two-year-old boy is taken from a South Brisbane medical facility overnight, with Queensland police saying the child requires medical treatment and is at significant risk. | | | | The Western lifestyle has a lot to answer for, and we can add asthma to the list, write Simon Phipps and Al Amin Sikder. | | | | The 'buy now, pay later' company's fortunes have surged sixfold in the past year, but its products allegedly cause "financial stress" to vulnerable consumers. | | | | Ed King, a former guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd who helped write several of the group' classic hits, dies in Nashville, Tennessee, according to a family friend. | | | | An underwater chase between predators and prey capturing a "rich cacophony of shapes and an explosion of tonality" wins Tracey Jennings the nature photographer of the year title. See the other winning photographs here. | | | | On the eve of the 90th anniversary of the last state-sanctioned mass killing — the Coniston Massacre — one Aboriginal leader is calling for a national day, like Anzac Day, to commemorate massacres of Indigenous people. | | | | It was a song born out of a female musician's frustration with how she was seen in the music industry, but a group of women helped turn it into much more. | | | | A director of a $20 million investment fund admits to borrowing clients' money to resolve personal "financial difficulties" and to settle a colleague's divorce. | | | | The global space industry is worth around $400 billion — and that could skyrocket if asteroid mining kicks off. And all that money means conflict in space is inevitable, a leading expert says. | | | | Katter's Australian Party senator Fraser Anning says that a majority of Muslims in Australia of working age do not work and live on welfare. RMIT ABC Fact Check finds his claim to be half-baked. | | | | Security sources in Indonesia say the threat stemmed from a social media post urging Indonesians in Surabaya and East Java province to "kill this Australian official". | | | | A Queensland school teacher who has never been to Poland has been made the country's national coach for its rugby league team. Lee Addison says he is "genuinely gobsmacked". | | | | A popcorn sales manager in Texas named Peter Dutton is inundated with messages on Twitter, after he is mistaken for Australia's prime ministerial hopeful. | |  |
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