| | | The Best Stories are Yours We want to know what the ABC means to you, your family, your community. Share your memory of the ABC with us. You can upload it to social media using the #ABCyours hashtag. See how other Australians are sharing their stories here. | | | AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan asked a senior staff member to contact then-prime-minister Tony Abbott's office to check on the visa status of an Argentinian polo player, an inquiry hears. | | | | The Federal Government dumps a plan to make people wait until they turn 70 to be eligible for the aged pension. | | | | There are heated scenes outside a Sydney police station when a man officers want to speak to in connection to an investigation turns up during a press conference. | | | | There is every reason to believe that Moscow is rehearsing a global war scenario along with other smaller ones that may build into that, mobilising the entire panoply of reservists and multiple militaries at its disposal, writes Stephen Blank. | | | | A new book by respected Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward claims to shine a light on the inner workings of the White House, including a revelation aides snatched sensitive documents from the President's desk to prevent him from taking rash actions. | | | | A Hunter Valley teacher's aide sobs and shakes as she is given a 12-month suspended sentence for grooming a 15-year-old boy for sex, with the magistrate saying deterrence was needed. | | | | Many women in the 'sandwich generation' aren't even getting enough time for a relaxing bath or trip to the movies once a month. | | | | The launch in February of the New Payments Platform will make payments instant — and impossible to reverse. Here's how fraudsters make a play for your money, writes Steve Worthington. | | | | The Town of Cottesloe is under mounting pressure to resolve a stand-off over public toilets at Perth's most famous beach, with Premier Mark McGowan describing the situation as an embarrassment to WA. | | | | You might soon be paying 10 cents more for a litre of milk after Federal Agriculture Minister David Littleproud threw his weight behind the idea. | | | | Gold Coast cancer patient Ron McCartney was on his way to palliative care when he was granted his dying wish for one last caramel sundae, Queensland Ambulance Service say. | | | | Politics is known for being a tough business, but multiple Liberal politicians say their colleagues crossed a line during the recent leadership spill. | | | | Federal Labor has pledged to withdraw the $443 million given to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation. But the foundation's decisions are led by science and free of undue influence, writes its chief scientist Peter J Mumby. | | | | A man who brutally murdered his partner and her two young children will spend at least 36 years behind bars after the Court of Criminal Appeal finds his original sentence was "manifestly inadequate". | | | | The family of Townsville mum, Julie Hutchinson, visit the site where her body was found saying they can now lay her to rest with the dignity she deserves. Julie's husband Michael Hutchinson was convicted of her manslaughter in 2017. | | | | The Queensland Government launches legal action against Indian mining giant Adani, alleging one of its companies released water near the Great Barrier Reef with eight times more sediment than it was licensed to. | | | | Practising lawyer and social justice advocate Nyadol Nyuon says that the majority of crimes in Victoria are committed by Australian and New Zealand-born people, and that those born in Sudan commit only 1 per cent. RMIT ABC Fact Check finds that her claim checks out. | | | | The Australian economy surprises with a strong spurt in economic growth driven by a surge in consumer spending, in turn funded by the lowest savings rate in more than a decade. | | | | As leaders meet at the Pacific Islands Forum, tensions are already spilling into the open with a Chinese official storming out of a meeting after being refused permission to speak by Nauru's President, who says he won't stand for "bullying". | | | | Armando Giglia is one of Australia's most experienced principals, and he's had enough of the vocal minority of pushy and disrespectful parents spoiling for a fight or looking to launch a Facebook attack on their children's school. | | | | Ruby slippers that were stolen while on loan to the Judy Garland Museum in Minnesota in 2005 are recovered in an FBI sting operation. | |  |
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