| | | | Students who leave high school with the lowest scores — some close to zero — are being offered places in teaching degrees at universities, a secret report finds. | | | | Federal MP Ann Sudmalis uses parliamentary privilege to accuse New South Wales state MP Gareth Ward of bullying and branch stacking, but he denies the accusations, saying Ms Sudmalis should repeat them without the legal protection of the parliament. | | | | The businesswoman who accused Barnaby Joyce of sexually harassing her says she hopes her experience will improve the way all political parties deal with complaints of sexual harassment. | | | | Rebecca Sharrock can describe scenes from when she was as young as 12 days old. About 60 people worldwide have memories this good — and we don't know why. | | | | Greg Rossen has been selling upmarket Perth properties for decades, but he's so pessimistic about the state of the market he's sold up his family home and is renting instead — and he's not confident of any relief in sight. | | | | They are popping up as restaurants and cafes, but are used shipping containers also a cheap and easy way to build yourself a house? | | | | Aged care advocates say nursing homes must implement minimum staff-to-resident ratios to protect the elderly and infirm, after a crowd-sourced investigation by the ABC revealed reports of neglect and malnutrition. | | | | About 3 per cent of Australians have opted out of the medical database system, which has been plagued by concerns about patient privacy, the system's security design and access by third parties, a Senate inquiry is told. | | | | Outspoken writer and academic Germaine Greer is accused on social media of comparing the trauma of rape to a fear of huntsman spiders during her appearance on Q&A. | | | | Speaking in Canberra, People's Liberation Army Senior Colonel Wang Jingguo says it's up to Australia to decide whether its military wants to challenge China's territorial claims in the strategic waterway. | | | | Former Dover Financial boss Terry McMaster says he has been a "victim of deliberate humiliation and harassment" perpetrated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission since last year. | | | | When Prince Manvendra came out as gay, Indians burned effigies of him in the street. Now, with the help of Australia's first gay judge — and perhaps Oprah and Kim Kardashian as well — he's overturned the country's ban on gay sex that dates back to British rule, writes Gary Nunn. | | | | Australians concerned that lowering the voting age might set a dangerous precedent need not worry — young people have also shown themselves more ready than ever for the responsibilities that come with voting, write Mark Chou and Lesley Pruitt. | | | | A widely prescribed antidepressant could be causing antibiotic resistance and contributing to the creation of superbugs, Queensland researchers say. | | | | Demons fans desperate to make it to Perth to see their team take on West Coast in this weekend's AFL preliminary push airline ticket prices so high that some international flights are now cheaper. | | | | For several months every year, about half the NT lights up with fire. But why does it happen and what damage does it do to the environment? Curious Darwin looks into ancient Aboriginal techniques, bush regeneration, and how residents protect themselves from a very real threat. | | | | In the early 1900s, young Australian actress Muriel Matters achieved notoriety in Britain after pulling off a series of brave and quirky stunts in the name of women's rights. | | | | As cases of strawberry tampering crop up all over Australia, a Queensland criminologist says the acts are intended to make people afraid with one grower saying supermarkets need to install metal detectors at the point of sale. | | | | Indigenous leaders, fishermen and tourism operators in the Northern Territory's remote Roper Valley fear the restarting of production at two iron ore mines will cause drastic environmental impacts. | | | | A hazardous waste site which faced heavy opposition when first proposed is ready to open but its operators say early protests over it have made potential customers wary. | | | | A sculpture of Headlie Taylor, whose early 20th century inventions transformed agricultural machinery worldwide, has been unveiled in Henty. | |  |
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