| | | | Two tiger sharks are shot and killed after being caught in drum lines in the Whitsunday Islands in north Queensland, where two tourists nearly bled to death after being mauled within 24 hours of each other. | | | | When ABC Radio Melbourne's Rafael Epstein travelled to the United States to talk to its bewildered citizens about their media, he expected cynicism and tribalism. But he wasn't expecting the doomsaying. | | | | The inside story of that meeting between Australia's then High Commissioner to the UK, Alexander Downer and Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos. | | | | Melbourne beat the Eagles in Perth by 17 points in round 22, will the Demons repeat that feat in the preliminary final? Or will it be the Eagles who join the Magpies in next week's grand final? Follow all the live scores, stats and commentary. | | | | A four-week-old meerkat is recovering after being found by WA Police at a house in the Wheatbelt town of Beverley, two days after it was taken from its enclosure at Perth Zoo on the eve of its public unveiling. | | | | Talk of moving borders and slicing up the state of Queensland is heating up again but politicians past and present have very definite opinions about the pros and cons of dividing the Sunshine State. | | | | So many shopping trolleys have been dumped off a wharf in a regional South Australian city that the local council warns of a "significant risk of injury" from jumping off it and into the sea. | | | | Billy Slater has been charged with a grade one shoulder charge in the preliminary final victory over Cronulla, meaning he will have to successfully fight the charge at the judiciary to have any chance of playing in next week's grand final. | | | | A man accused of posing as an Uber driver and sexually assaulting two women he picked up in Brisbane's nightclub precinct allegedly thanked one of his victims and gave her a bottle of water after attacking her. | | | | A cancer diagnosis is a traumatic curve ball no-one expects, but the effect the disease and subsequent treatment can have on a person's sex life is something rarely talked about. Patients say having that information at the outset is crucial. | | | | Nimita doesn't eat after dark in case she accidentally swallows an insect — and doesn't play cricket, so as not to hurt the grass. She's one of Australia's 4,000 followers of Jainism. | | | | Climate change in the Arctic is happening so quickly, the Norwegian Government has been forced to spend $A17 million to fix a subterranean vault that is preserving the world's seeds. | | | | The architect of the Sydney Football Stadium says its imminent demolition represents a shift away from stadiums designed for the people and a move towards sporting elitism. | | | | About 240 years after the British scuttled the renamed Lord Sandwich 2 off Newport, in the United States, researches believe they may have found the ship that was once Captain Cook's Endeavour. | | | | A small town is fearful that graves at its local cemetery will be damaged or destroyed if the Anglican Church sells it off, but the church says it is the responsibility of government to protect cemeteries. | | | | Toowoomba's Carnival of Flowers kicks off this weekend in the middle of trying weather conditions. | | | | After a predictable and furious public debate erupted this week, it shows that when it comes to breastfeeding in Parliament there's a few baby steps that still need to be taken, writes Jessica Strutt. | | | | There are hopes that a feared mass slaughter in the Syrian province of Idlib could be averted, after a de-escalation plan was agreed to between the Assad regime's ally Russia and Turkey. One senior US Army War college expert says it's probably just a temporary reprieve. | | | | Rod Rosenstein rubbishes claims made by The New York Times that he discussed using the US Constitution to push Donald Trump from the presidency. | | | | The home-grown technology of Carnegie Clean Energy to harvest the power of waves has, until now, been irresistible to politicians of all stripes and thousands of small investors, but a storm has hit and the wave energy dream appears in doubt. | | | | On Australian farms, families have been uncovering ancient Aboriginal artefacts for generations and now they're being encouraged to show them to researchers. | |  |
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