| | | | Liberal MP Julia Banks uses a late evening speech to call out "bullying, intimidation, harassment — sexual or otherwise" in Federal Parliament, while saying politics was a decade behind the business world in remedying a lack of women in leadership positions. | | | | Scott Morrison has defended a tweet suggesting the drought is a "necessary evil" to cut the bottom 10 per cent of farmers, saying it is another perspective on the drought. | | | | An ex-senior manager at Australia's banking watchdog APRA and 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. | | | | A 600-year-old Dancing Shiva owned by the Art Gallery of South Australia is identified as stolen from India, with authorities there commencing a bid for its return. | | | | Police and health authorities are investigating after sewing needles were found inside strawberries sold in the last week. They are warning shoppers in Queensland, Victoria or New South Wales to dispose of them immediately. | | | | 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. | | | | A tiny stone flake covered in a red ochre hashtag drawn 73,000 years ago by modern humans has been discovered in a South African cave. | | | | If you suspect an online article, video or image is fake, there are here are some simple — and free — tools you can use to help decide whether what you're looking at is the real deal. | | | | From a no-through road where neighbours waved at each other as they came home, to a street where true crime fans do drive-bys — Gilwinga Drive has changed. | | | | 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. | | | | Westpac could be sued by its customers, funders and investors after admitting it breached responsible lending laws and a separate finding that it lacked appropriate lending controls. | | | | In China, there's a growing black market pedalling fake research papers, fake peer reviews, and even entirely fake research results to anyone who will pay. Does the rise of fake and fraudulent science threaten the future of research? | | | | Liberal preselection for the Wentworth by-election is looming large and the eight-way contest is expected to be tough, with allegations of dirty tactics and the party's secretive voting process all under the microscope. | | | | Best described as a cross between Game of Thrones and The Crown, minus the graphic violence and nudity courtesy of Chinese censorship, The Story of Yanxi Palace has taken China and Chinese expats by storm. | | | | All people bring their worldview to work, and no politician is untainted by ideology. Rather than fearing Scott Morrison's Christianity, we should ask him to be the best Christian possible in his role as Australian Prime Minister, writes Simon Smart. | | | | Deputy Liberal Leader Josh Frydenberg says that the newly-minted cabinet sees "additional female representation". RMIT ABC Fact Check finds that claim to be overstated. | | | | Australian fans love to hate Ashes rival James Anderson. But his achievement in becoming the most prolific Test fast bowler in history demands our unqualified admiration. | | | | Seana Szetey, whose boss told her he had "only hired me because I was attractive", is among a growing number of Australian women the Human Rights Commission says are being sexually harassed in the workplace. | | | | The grandfather of a 17-year-old boy who died trying to cross the Swan River while fleeing police says he was a happy child who fell in with the wrong crowd when he moved to Perth from a small country town. | | | | Across two floors in a building in Waterloo, 10,000 hire costumes that include original Priscilla headdresses, Jane Austen gowns, raunchy burlesque skirts and even the Sunrise Cash Cow are up for sale. | |  |
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