| | | 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. | | | Peter Dutton overruled officials to let another European au pair enter the country. The Italian woman was planning to work with a former Queensland Police colleague of Mr Dutton's. | | | | The sister of Collingwood midfielder Travis Varcoe has died in hospital after being injured in an on–field football incident in a women's football match last Sunday. | | | | What's so damn important that people crossing one of Australia's busiest intersections can't put down their mobile phones? | | | | Scientists have used the fossil record to get an idea of what 4 and 7 degrees of warming did to the planet after the last ice age. "Business-as-usual" emissions could see the same thing happen this century. | | | | Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele says people are waiting for "some political guts" as he urges Australia to make deeper cuts to carbon emissions to help save Pacific Island nations from the "disaster" of climate change. | | | | Gerard Depardieu is being investigated by the Paris prosecutor over accusations of rape and sexual assault, although the prominent French actor's lawyer says he denies any wrongdoing. | | | | Women entering the workforce today have a reason to be optimistic. For women about to leave the workforce, the news isn't so good, write Marianna O'Gorman and Emma Dawson. | | | | Nick Kyrgios progresses to the third round of the US Open, but only after receiving some controversial mid-match encouragement from umpire Mohamed Lahyani. | | | | Exporters say calls to seize hay supplies destined for Asia and instead provide them to drought-struck farmers could kill $500 million industry. | | | | One of Australia's top dishonours — the Gold Ernie for sexist remarks in public life — goes to Cricket Australia for sacking Angela Williamson over her tweeting criticism about Tasmania's abortion policy. | | | | Staff claiming to have been underpaid at Flight Centre subsidiary Travel Money Oz take their case to the Fair Work Commission. It comes after former Flight Centre staff came forward with claims of underpayment and bullying at the travel giant. | | | | One of the biggest fires seen in Melbourne for a long time continues to burn in the city's west, closing schools and childcare centres and prompting health warnings from the toxic smoke. | | | | The campaign to ban autonomous weapons merely serves to detract attention from the fact that nations should be seeking to regulate human beings with killer intentions, rather than killer weapons, writes Jai Galliott. | | | | Wood once dominated the building industry, and now it's making a comeback. It's cheap, fast and sustainable — so will the towers of tomorrow be made of timber? | | | | The family of five-year-old boy rallies around him after he suffered significant burns and lost eight fingers in a fire that destroyed the family home. | | | | In a bid to eradicate one of the Great Barrier Reef's primary threats, researchers have come up with a tiny yellow submarine that will seek out crown-of-thorns starfish and kill them via lethal injection. | | | | Former vice-president Joe Biden leads tributes to John McCain who is remembered as a "true American hero" — and a terrible driver with a wicked sense of humour and love of a good fight — at a crowded church service for in Phoenix. | | | | It's a debate that's vexed doctors for decades — are pregnant women better off being induced into labour or waiting for it to come naturally? | | | | Two prospectors struck it rich when they found a world-class gold deposit. Not only did they put an Australian gold rush town on the map, but 125 years later, it is still being mined. | | | | United Nations' human rights experts again voice alarm over alleged Chinese political re-education camps for Muslim Uighurs in the country's far west and call for the immediate release of those detained on the "pretext of countering terrorism". | | | | By the time researchers realised Florida's wildlife was disappearing it was too late. Could Australia suffer the same fate? | | | | Father Rod Bower is famous for the thought-provoking signs outside his church. They are often a reaction to the day's news, and recently he has had trouble keeping up with the political upheaval in Canberra. | |  |
By Marianna O'Gorman and Emma Dawson | |  |
By Jai Galliott | |  |
By political reporter Jane Norman and Indonesia correspondent David Lipson | |  |
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