| | | | Tasmanian police officers drive alongside a runaway automated train for almost 10 minutes before operators deliberately derail it, sending it crashing through a fence with debris hitting two people. | | | | One of Australia's most notorious scam artists continues to run a business that rips off vulnerable students while he is out on bail appealing against his conviction and sentence, an ABC investigation reveals. | | | | The final day of royal commission insurance hearings hears of a litany of misconduct, legal breaches and insurers failing to live up to community expectations. | | | | The Prime Minister hastily reschedules a press conference in Sydney after Kerryn Phelps, a high-profile independent candidate at the looming Wentworth by-election, gatecrashes it while the Liberal candidate watches on. | | | | An experienced prospector discovers a large gold nugget in the shape of a duck's foot containing more than two kilograms of gold buried 800 millimetres beneath the surface in WA's northern Goldfields. | | | | A Ballarat man has been found guilty of raping his estranged wife while their children were locked outside their house in February 2017. | | | | Supreme Court justices need to be squeaky clean to dictate everyone else's behaviour. Whatever the truth of the allegations against him, doubt has been cast on Brett Kavanaugh's character. | | | | One animal started doing backflips, while others reached out to touch an object — or embrace another octopus. And the scientists conducting the study learned about the roots of social behaviour. | | | | New analysis shows wealthy parents at advantaged Catholic primary schools could actually afford the increase to school fees under the needs-based model, writes Peter Goss. And whether they opt to send their children to the state school down the road and avoid fee increases is a matter of choice and value, not affordability. | | | | Former WA Labor MP Barry Urban is arrested and charged with a dozen forgery, false evidence and attempted fraud offences following his resignation from Parliament. | | | | Scientists say there is a link between the mummified remains of hundreds of penguin chicks in Antarctica and two catastrophic climate events that flooded the typically arid landscape. | | | | A Canberra man serving 30 years in jail for stabbing his wife to death as she fed their young baby loses his bid to change his plea to guilty, in order to get a shorter sentence. | | | | The NSW Liberal Party is immersed in civil war with frontbench MP Ray Williams demanding Treasurer Dominic Perrottet quit Cabinet as the two enter an ugly pre-selection stoush — and the Treasurer is refusing. | | | | An investigation warns of South Australia's ongoing failure to protect children from sexual abuse, with a known sexual predator continuing to care for children in the state. | | | | The Work for the Dole scheme is expanding, with long-term unemployed people required to work longer and less flexible hours. So what's it really like working for the dole? | | | | Two near-fatal shark attacks within 24 hours in the same place is described as unprecedented and unusual, with authorities urging people not swim in the area while they assess the threat. | | | | NSW Education Minister Rob Stokes says he was blindsided by Prime Minister Scott Morrison's $4.5 billion deal for Catholic and independent schools, and says Australia's most populous state did not accept "special deals". | | | | Scientists cast a net into space to snare a small satellite in what they hope is a demonstration of one way to deal with the growing space junk problem. | | | | Liberal Party men are pushing back against women pressing for cultural change within the party, but this post-#Libspill moment holds immense promise if the collective momentum is seized and built upon, writes Chris Wallace. | | | | A submission to a Senate inquiry has raised concerns some mobility scooter drivers are using the form of transport to avoid police breath testing. | | | | Australian troops could soon begin regular military rotations to Papua New Guinea as anxiety over China's growing influence in the Pacific region continues to rise. | | | | The company behind a wave farm heralded by WA premier Mark McGowan as world leading technology admits its viability is under threat after missing a major funding milestone. | | | | Scientists solved a 72-year mystery when they identified fat molecules in a specimen from 558 million years ago. It's been described as a "living doormat". | |  |
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