| | | | Police and health authorities are investigating after sewing needles were found inside strawberries sold in Woolworths in the last week. They are warning shoppers in Queensland, Victoria or New South Wales to dispose of them immediately. | | | | NSW Police commence a forensic search at the former home of Lynette Dawson, on Sydney's northern beaches. The 33-year-old mother of two disappeared in 1982, and has not been seen since. | | | | Seana Szetey, whose boss told her he had "only hired me because I was attractive", is among a growing number of Australian women the Human Rights Commission says are being sexually harassed in the workplace. | | | | The cricket world is in a frenzy, as debate rages about whether a stunning delivery from England's Adil Rashid is superior to Shane Warne's "ball of the century". | | | | This was no sombre reflection on the woes of the finance industry — it was a full-throated attack on the insurance "shonks" and the industry that's "got to change". | | | | A magistrate says he would have jailed two Melbourne developers if he had the power to, after they pleaded guilty to dumping asbestos from an illegally demolished historic pub near homes and a childcare centre. | | | | The father of a nine-year-old Brisbane schoolgirl who refuses to stand for the national anthem during assembly, despite being disciplined by her school, says he supports his daughter for her "incredible bravery". | | | | The grandfather of a 17-year-old boy who died trying to cross the Swan River while fleeing police says he was a happy child who fell in with the wrong crowd when he moved to Perth from a small country town. | | | | The Supreme Court awards the Wagner family $3.75 million in damages after finding Alan Jones, 2GB and 4BC defamed the family after broadcasting allegations they were responsible for the deaths of 12 people in the 2011 Grantham floods. | | | | Peter Dutton told the Parliament that former Border Force boss Roman Quaedvlieg is "discredited and disgraced". But Mr Dutton won't be worrying about a defamation suit because of a thing called parliamentary privilege. | | | | We've studied thousands of Australians' car commutes — they are long, slow and stressful, but in some cases, maybe better than you'd think. | | | | Mining company AusGold — owned by Chinese businesswoman Sally Zou — advertises for a "personal assistant" for a nine-year-old girl on a popular jobseeker website. | | | | Glenn Maxwell feels slightly misled after missing out on Australian Test squad selection despite being told to have a rest ahead of the upcoming summer. | | | | A Melbourne newspaper doubles down on a cartoon of tennis star Serena Williams that has prompted international outrage, attacking its "PC" critics and foreshadowing a future where satire is outlawed. | | | | Each day when nine-year-old Tylah Hartin leaves the house it's game on with a local magpie which swoops and sings in a merry dance. | | | | Speaker Tony Smith tells the House of Representatives the by-election for Malcolm Turnbull's leafy seat of Wentworth will be held on Saturday, October 20 — the first vote since the Government's chaotic leadership spill. | | | | Having a child born with a disability can feel isolating and lonely, but it can also bring people together — in some cases, from vastly different cultures and countries. | | | | The lowly dung beetle may be best known for eating poo, but the small creatures are making a major impact on the livelihoods of outback workers and livestock by improving pasture growth and reducing the number of flies. | | | | From military bases and the offices of government lawyers to street corners and on buses, we're being watched by cameras made by surveillance companies accused of spying for China. | | | | The father of a man with Down syndrome who was sold a life insurance policy he didn't understand joins calls for an outright ban on cold-call sales of financial products, after giving evidence at the banking royal commission. | | | | An Adelaide man is coming to grips with identity theft after his bank accounts were drained, credit cards ordered in his name and a new sim card delivered to Melbourne shortly after returning from overseas. | | | | The Queensland environment department launches an investigation into a series of groundwater bores drilled by Adani, which conservationists say were sunk without approval, contrary to the miner's claim it had permission for the works. | | | | Disputes over the ownership of four small islands near Japan's northernmost top have caused deep rifts between Russia and Japan, so much so that 70 years after WWII the two countries have never signed a peace treaty. This is why. | |  |
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