| | | | Malcolm Turnbull urges his former colleagues to refer Peter Dutton to the High Court, prompting an accusation from Barnaby Joyce that the ex-prime minister seems to have "an active campaign" to remove the Coalition from Government. | | | | The mother of Madison Lyden, the Tasmanian tourist killed by a truck while riding a bike in New York, accuses Manhattan's top prosecutor of "sheer cowardice" for failing to file criminal charges against the driver whose actions allegedly led to the tragedy. | | | | Melissa Thompson, who sued Harvey Weinstein in June, says she made the recording, shown by Sky News, while demonstrating video technology for the disgraced movie mogul at his New York City office in 2011. | | | | The banking royal commission hears CommInsure denied a woman a trauma insurance payout because her breast cancer operation did not meet its definition of a "radical" surgery. | | | | An SUV crashes into a crowd at a public square in central China, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 40 others, the city government says. | | | | As an innocent Sydney grandmother remains in a coma after her car was hit by police pursuing another driver, her distraught family calls on the NSW Government to restrict pursuits to situations in which public safety is directly at risk. | | | | A girl born on February 29, 2000, who allegedly broke the law on February 28 exactly 18 years later causes a conundrum for a Canberra court. Should she be treated as an adult? | | | | The tech giant has finished a process it began last year by showing off three new iPhones without a home button. Here's what else Apple showed off at its annual keynote. | | | | Police and health authorities are warning families to cut up their fruit, after a copycat case of strawberry tampering in Gatton, west of Brisbane, where a rod was placed inside a punnet at Coles. | | | | A "cabinet in confidence" document prepared for the NSW government in 2012 forecast the Sydney CBD light rail project would be a loss-maker. | | | | A 10-year-old Missouri boy is recovering after he was attacked by insects and tumbled from a tree, landing on a meat skewer that penetrated his skull from his face to the back of his head. | | | | Australian scientists make a remarkable discovery about what is lurking in the brains of people with schizophrenia, giving them new clues about what might cause the illness, and hope for better drug treatments. | | | | An ex-senior manager at Australia's banking watchdog APRA, who was also the ex-CEO of a leading credit union, is accused in court documents of running an array of scams, including engineering sham payouts for his wife, and ripping off the company that recruited him. | | | | Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi has defended a court's decision to jail two Reuters journalists, saying their jailing had nothing to do with freedom of expression, and they can appeal their seven-year sentence. | | | | The Philippines is bracing for powerful Typhoon Mangkhut, which is expected to hit on Saturday and has farmers worried for their crops amid rice shortages. | | | | Corporate regulator ASIC gave the Commonwealth Bank's insurance arm the chance to change a media release and negotiate the consequences of misleading advertising. | | | | The AFL Commission will have much to think about after the league's Competition Committee decided to recommend a raft of rule changes and interpretations. | | | | Australians love to travel, and while it's no secret that flying is a carbon-intensive activity, only a few of us pay to reduce our carbon footprint when we fly. | | | | Documents and drawings from two French-led expeditions during the early 1800s shed more light on the theory that WA could just as easily have been settled by the colonial empire of France. | | | | A self-published romance writer who once penned an essay titled 'How To Murder Your Husband' is now accused of gunning down her husband. | | | | The country's new roadmap to a net-zero emissions economy demonstrates what's possible when politicians work together while harnessing the ideas of business, academia and activists to find solutions to complex problems like climate change, writes Stuart Evans. | | | | Barring a meteorological miracle, communities on the US Atlantic coast will be overwhelmed in the next day or so by winds of more than 200 kilometres an hour and a storm surge up to 4 metres high. But that may not be the worst of it, writes Philip Williams. | |  |
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