| | | | Liberal Party elders condemn Tony Abbott's role in bringing down the Turnbull Government, saying the former prime minister's behaviour has been "lamentable". | | | | Your 21-year-old daughter has been killed in a terrorist attack on the other side of the world. What would you do? This is Mark and Julie Wallace's story. | | | | A gunman kills four people and injures 10 others at a video game tournament that was being streamed live online from a restaurant in Jacksonville, Florida. | | | | Two US professors publish a report claiming NAPLAN's computer-adaptive testing cannot be compared with pen-and-paper tests, making this year's results of "very limited use" to parents, teachers and schools. | | | | Julie Bishop and Malcolm Turnbull leave huge holes in the Federal ministry. Here's how Scott Morrison is putting together a new team by promoting supporters and rearranging some ministries. | | | | The top eight is settled, the first finals are set, but which teams are entering September football in the form to challenge for the flag — and where will their winning scores come from, asks Andrew McGarry. | | | | A group of people are believed to be on the run in Far North Queensland's Daintree Rainforest region after authorities locate what is believed to be an illegal fishing vessel in the Daintree River. | | | | US playwright Neil Simon, whose laugh-filled hits such as The Odd Couple and Barefoot in the Park dominated Broadway for decades, dies at the age of 91. | | | | Pope Francis apologises to mothers estranged from their children in church-run homes, children abused by priests and those exploited in religious schools, as he concludes a tour of the once deeply Catholic country of Ireland. | | | | At 25 years old, David Vard became Ireland's youngest practicing priest — a vocation he says can be a lonely one, but that is one he loves deeply. | | | | Healthcare workers previously employed on Nauru warn refugee children are facing an unprecedented health crisis and are at a real risk of death. | | | | The extraordinary spike in electricity prices across Australia was caused by the 15 years of federal government inaction and factional infighting over energy policy. But in politics it's always best to have a handy victim who can cop the vitriol for the mistakes of others, writes Ian Verender. | | | | In the 1980s, a revolutionary new computer, run by cassette, was changing lives forever. | | | | Feral camels fleeing dry conditions in the Nullarbor have reached farmlands near Western Australia's southern coast. | | | | Sharks leaping from the ocean, waves crashing into the side of your small boat as you sleep, a bucket toilet with no privacy — for many this would be the voyage from hell, but for Bundaberg's Eleanor Carey it was a life-changing adventure. | | | | After a century of avoiding the area, southern right whales are returning to the winter waters around Fowlers Bay on South Australia's west coast, boosting tourism in the small town. | | | | Churches are closing nationwide, but the 'church planting' industry is booming. Meet the couple growing a congregation from a suburban lawn bowls club. | | | | Emmerson Mnangagwa urges Zimbabwe to unite behind his presidency, as he takes the oath of office following a divisive election that US observers said had called the country's democratic credentials into question. | | | | It's the second time Sri Lanka-born Michelle de Kretser has won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, this time for her novel The Life To Come. | | | | A ban on Chinese tourists to the tiny Pacific nation of Palau is leaving hotels empty, an airline in limbo and shown the power China has over its vacationing middle class. | |  |
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