| | | 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. | | | A man is killed and two others are injured after a tub of wet concrete falls from a crane at a construction site in the city's eastern suburbs. | | | | The man Peter Dutton hand-picked as the first Australian Border Force commissioner, Roman Quaedvlieg (left), says the Minister's chief of staff rang him to ask what could be done to help "the boss's mate" in securing a visa for an Italian nanny. | | | | ANZ and the Commonwealth become the second and third major banks to raise home loan interest rates, despite no move on the horizon from the Reserve Bank. | | | | For years before becoming President, Donald Trump — as a real estate developer and then a presidential candidate — dropped information on journalists by either demanding that his name not be used or using a pseudonym. That behaviour may be coming back to haunt him, writes Micheline Maynard. | | | | The comedian, whose latest show Who is America? has already led to the resignation of one US politician, is being sued by another who says he suffered "extreme emotional distress" after a supposed paedophile detector beeped when it came near him. | | | | Roman Quaedvlieg, the former Australian Border Force commissioner, pens a 3,800-word reflection on the conditions facing nearly 1,000 asylum seekers and refugees held in "squalid" facilities at Australia's immigration facilities on Nauru. | | | | Residents speak of their shock and tears, after a powerful earthquake triggers devastating landslides that crush homes and leaves millions without power. | | | | The corporate regulator ASIC is taking National Australia Bank subsidiary MLC and its superannuation trustee NULIS to court over charging customers fees for no service. | | | | He was supposed to be Mason Jet Lee's stepfather and carer, but instead William Andrew O'Sullivan harmed and neglected the Caboolture toddler, who eventually suffered a "slow and painful death", the Queensland Supreme Court hears. | | | | The ex-husband of a woman who was killed in her house in the wealthy Perth suburb of Mosman Park, and whose body was later dumped in the Swan River in a suitcase, is found guilty of her murder, while her daughter is convicted of covering up the crime. | | | | Protesters disrupt a media conference called by Katter's Australian Party MPs in Brisbane on the eve of the party losing four staff members in Queensland over Fraser Anning's controversial speech to the Senate. | | | | If you wanted to see the internet's darkest corners come to life on Wednesday, you only had to look to Capitol Hill, writes Ariel Bogle. | | | | John Millman's inspiring run at the 2018 US Open ends at the hands of Novak Djokovic, in a match characterised by ferocious scrambling, searing heat and a refusal to quit. | | | | A Queensland mother of two escapes jail time after being duped into laundering almost $22,000 for Nigerian scammers saying she didn't realised she had committed a crime until police knocked on her door. | | | | India's top court strikes down a law that makes homosexual acts punishable by up to 10 years in prison, in a landmark judgement that activists hope will uphold the right to equality. | | | | A man will appear in court next month accused of holding a woman's head underwater during an alleged surf-rage incident on the New South Wales north coast. | | | | The small town in north-east Victoria is implementing a solar energy strategy that will generate power off the grid, reduce local demand for electricity during peak summer periods, and decrease the price of energy. | | | | The trend seemed to kick into gear a couple of months ago: after YouTubers had been buying "mystery boxes" off places like eBay and Craigslist, a few took it up a notch. | | | | The NRL fines the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs $250,000 over "inexcusable" behaviour at the club's end-of-season celebrations, which it said will not be tolerated. | | | | A former staffer speaks out about the impact of alleged sexism and bullying in the office of a former Victorian Greens leader. | | | | Large parts of Australia are expecting an above-normal bushfire risk this season, with fire chiefs from around the country warning people to start getting ready now. | |  |
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