| | | | Vision emerges of the dramatic rescue of two boys who entered Perth's Swan River after fleeing police, as WA's most senior officer confirms the bodies of two other teenagers have been found in the water, while a fifth is confirmed safe. | | | | The Home Affairs Minister uses parliamentary privilege to lash out at Roman Quaedvlieg over "fictitious" and "salacious" information regarding the au pairs saga, accusing him of being a "discredited and disgraced" person who "groomed a girl 30 years younger than himself". | | | | A group of firefighters, including two Australians, took cover behind a ridge after seeing two shooters aim a rifle at them and open fire while they were surveying damage from a blaze in the United States, an official incident review says. | | | | Veteran cartoonist Mark Knight rejects suggestions his depiction of Serena Williams is "racist" and says those condemning him are "making stuff up". | | | | So I saw this cartoon of Serena Williams, and the Hottentot Venus vibe, complete with all the "othering" contained within it, and I thought of that time they drew Michelle Obama with a penis, writes Denise Clay. But pity Naomi Osaka, whose blackness was basically erased. | | | | As Scott Morrison attempts to sell his post-coup leadership, the Liberals struggle to explain the inexplicable — why they dumped Malcolm Turnbull. This looks more like the old generation heavily bandaged after a bar room brawl, writes Michelle Grattan. | | | | Animal rights activists urge the Indonesian Government to keep its promise to ban the brutal dog and cat meat trades, after shocking new footage emerges of the animals being bludgeoned over the head and blow-torched while still alive. | | | | The royal commission continues its examination of life insurance, with Freedom Insurance in the spotlight for its aggressive outbound cold calling sales tactics, including to a young man with Down Syndrome. | | | | A Newcastle husband and wife on a mission to stop a "ticking time bomb" in the South Pacific purchase a New Zealand Navy warship. | | | | Worksites in Victoria are told to stop using dozens of cranes, and conduct safety checks on others, after investigators found the death of a Melbourne worker was likely caused by a mechanical failure. | | | | Stagnant house prices are likely the new normal for property markets in much of Sydney and Melbourne, analysts are warning as prices fall for the 11th month in a row. | | | | It's a classic optical illusion. Now researchers at Flinders University have used it to assess people's unconscious biases on age. | | | | Italian motorbike rider Romano Fenati says "I understand the resentment towards me" after he reached for a rival's brake lever while travelling at more than 200 kilometres per hour in the second-tier San Marino Grand Prix. | | | | The family of a Perth mother allegedly murdered by her husband along with their three daughters and the children's grandmother says "Heaven has gained five new angels" after their deaths. | | | | Richmond's Josh Caddy apologises to Hawthorn's James Frawley and Daniel Howe, after being heard using the word "spastic" during last Thursday night's opening AFL final against the Hawks. | | | | Donald Trump has long said bold new ideas are needed to break old impasses. But many Palestinians would argue what's been broken is any semblance of US impartiality, writes chief foreign correspondent Philip Williams. | | | | Teammates of an Adelaide SANFL women's league footballer who died after an on-field injury have remembered her as "talented" and "an inspiration". | | | | Serena Williams broke the rules at the US Open and suffered the consequences. But the point she argued is that the same rules are broken at every tournament without those same consequences being meted out, writes Tracey Holmes. | | | | Despite political stoushes over energy, Australians have quietly embraced solar and wind technology — and that love affair will put us on track to meet our international climate change commitments, a new study says. | | | | Law firm Slater and Gordon will allege super funds owned by the big banks owe more than a billion dollars to customers in what it believes is Australia's biggest group of class actions yet. | | | | A reclusive billionaire couple pays hundreds of millions of dollars to save an iconic slice of Californian coastline from development, in the biggest ever donation to the global environmental group The Nature Conservancy. | |  |
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