| | | | In the ABC's biggest crowdsourced investigation, current and former aged care workers reveal the chronic neglect, mistreatment and understaffing in facilities across the country. | | | | For the first time, Emma Watkins — better known as the Yellow Wiggle — talks about how her health scare caused her to reassess her marriage to fellow Wiggle Lachlan Gillespie. | | | | We bemoan a lack of leadership. Some yearn for the good old days when we had it. Yet when we get it, we sometimes don't recognise it, and even if we do, we seldom reward it, writes Laura Tingle. | | | | Some older people take aspirin every day to prevent a heart attack or stroke. But a landmark Australian study has found they may be wasting their time. | | | | Though it now posits itself as a truly national competition, the AFL will be licking its lips at the prospect of an old Victorian suburban rivalry — Richmond v Collingwood — finally coming of age in the modern game, writes Richard Hinds. | | | | Tens of thousands of brumbies not only survive but thrive in outback Australia. And now tourists are coming from across Australia — and the world — to see how these wild animals are tamed. | | | | Tasmania Police are investigating a claim that strawberries contaminated with needles were found at a Hobart supermarket. | | | | Police in the English town of Salisbury, where former Russian agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in March, shut down a restaurant and surrounding streets after two people fell ill. | | | | Typhoon Mangkhut, which has already left at least 66 people dead, barrels into southern China after lashing the northern Philippines causing landslides that authorities fear may have buried dozens of people. | | | | A magnitude-5.6 earthquake hits near the West Australian town of Walpole, about 430 kilometres south-east of Perth, with tremors felt as far away as Perth and Albany. | | | | Scott Morrison says the new royal commission will focus on residential and in-home aged care for seniors but will also cover care for young people with disabilities who live in aged care homes. | | | | Thousands of people living near North Carolina's rising rivers are ordered to evacuate and nearly 1 million people are without power amid fears the state could be in for the most destructive flooding in its history. | | | | Steve Turner, who fell 300 metres to his death at Mount Barney on the weekend, is remembered as "a Godfather to climbing and outdoors in south-east Queensland" and a mentor to fellow adventurers. | | | | Gladys Berejiklian vows to do everything she can to shut down hardcore music festival Defqon.1 in the wake of two suspected overdose deaths in Sydney on Saturday night. Three other festival goers remain in a critical condition in hospital. | | | | High-profile Sydney GP Kerryn Phelps vows to restore integrity and stability to Federal Parliament as she confirms a tilt at Malcolm Turnbull's old electorate. | | | | Police officers have shot dead a man armed with a knife outside Ipswich train station, west of Brisbane, following a stand-off with officers on Sunday afternoon. | | | | Prominent anti-Kremlin activist Pyotr Verzilov is in Germany for treatment after falling severely ill from suspected poisoning, a Pussy Riot member says. | | | | Texas authorities charge a US Border Patrol supervisor with murder following what they called a two-week serial killing spree that left four female sex workers dead, and ended when a fifth woman escaped at a gas station and found help. | | | | My story won't be the one about the woman who "beat" cancer, perhaps because there's no one tumour site, perhaps because I don't want a fight on my hands — things are tough enough, writes ABC journalist Barbara Miller. | | | | Zlatan Ibrahimovic has scored some pearlers in his career, and the strike to bring up his 500th was as good as any of them. | |  |
By Offsiders columnist Richard Hinds | |  |
By Laura Tingle | |  |
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