| | | The Best Stories are Yours We want to know what the ABC means to you, your family, your community. Share your memory of the ABC with us. You can upload it to social media using the #ABCyours hashtag. See how other Australians are sharing their stories here. | | | Federal Labor says Peter Dutton must explain whether generous political donations had any influence on his decision to help a French au pair into the country. His office flatly denies any wrongdoing. | | | | Years of banking reform and the fallout from the banking royal commission has led to a recent spike in the number of failed mortgage refinancing applications. It's being described as a 'mortgage mirage' — an offer from the bank that looks too good to be true and, as it turns out, for many it is. | | | | Pollution from an old mine has made a northern Queensland major river into a toxic contamination zone, with the government warning residents not to drink, swim or use the water. | | | | Some imams in Australia are still teaching that the Koran permits husbands to beat their wives, with police reporting Muslim men cite scripture to justify their abuse. Now a new generation of faith leaders is working to undo the damage. | | | | Piecing together publicly available station information and data supplied by transport authorities, ABC News found hundreds of stations across Australia that cannot be used by many people who use wheelchairs, have mobility issues or even use a pram. | | | | Asked if she believed the Liberal Party would ever bring itself to elect a popular female leader, Julie Bishop delivered her response with maximum steel. But she loves to speak in code, writes Annabel Crabb. | | | | The drive to electric vehicles promises a better future — but there is a road rage battle brewing, pitting petrol guzzlers against their green successors on how we should be paying for our roads. | | | | It may seem counter intuitive to have widespread drought and a bumper ski season in the same state, but this year proves it is possible. | | | | Greece was this month freed from economic shackles clamped on nine years ago to stop it bringing down the entire EU economy, but there were no Athens street parties, no corks popping — because for many citizens, life is unlikely to get better anytime soon, writes Anne Bagamery. | | | | Fans line up for hours, some singing, others weeping, as they wait to pay their final respects to Aretha Franklin, whose body lay in repose in a gold-plated casket at Detroit's Charles H Wright Museum of African American History. | | | | A leading bushfire expert says Australia is heading into uncharted territory for bushfire threats with so much of the nation in drought. | | | | A new bio-optic diagnostic device being developed at the Australian National University could help doctors move away from a "one size fits all" approach to prescribing blood thinners. | | | | The Vostok-2018 exercise will involve the Chinese and Mongolian armies and include almost 300,000 troops, more than 1,000 military aircraft, two of Russia's naval fleets, and all of its airborne units. | | | | Although some social media users are able to monetise their social media "likes," much of the pursuit of popularity amounts to nothing and instead turns us into pawns for political and commercial uses, writes Kane X Faucher. | | | | Drought and the long-term effect of the dingo fence are some of the reasons experts give for an increase in sightings of white kangaroos in western New South Wales. | | | | Former champion Samantha Stosur says soaring temperatures at the US Open are becoming dangerous after she bowed out in the first round to Caroline Wozniacki. | | | | China e-commerce giant Alibaba plans to open 1,000 of its new-age supermarkets in the next five years and it has Australian produce on its shopping list. | | | | A court is told a rural locksmith, who was allegedly preyed on by a syndicate at the centre of a massive tax evasion scheme, had his identity stolen and used to purchase a number of properties and luxury vehicles without his knowledge. | | | | Two senior figures from the massive southern Queensland cotton operation Norman Farming face court in Brisbane accused of defrauding the Commonwealth of $20 million in Murray-Darling water funding. | | | | The Spirit of Tasmania operator TT-Line is being sued for negligence over the deaths of 16 prized polo ponies that crossed Bass Strait in January. | | | | A court hears police planted listening devices in the home of a 23-year-old Adelaide woman accused of being a member of the Islamic State terrorist organisation. | | | | It was plain to see Usain Bolt's second training session with the Central Coast Mariners was gruelling and that he was giving it his all — but believe it or not, coach Mike Mulvey is asking him for more speed. | |  |
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