| | | | New research paints a vivid picture of the growing underbelly of discontent forcing Australians to the fringe. Rate the state of the nation to see where you stand. | | | | The Opposition calls for Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton to be stood down over his role in visa applications for European au pairs, but Prime Minister Scott Morrison says there is no need. | | | | US President Donald Trump says he is "so sad over Jeff Sessions", who he has repeatedly denounced for recusing himself from the Russia investigation. | | | | The Department of Home Affairs releases 169 pages of documents showing Peter Dutton's role in granting au pairs tourist visas, and the work put in by his office staff and Immigration officials. | | | | Google have nap pods. Netflix, Virgin and LinkedIn have unlimited annual leave. But are work "wellness" perks all they're cracked up to be? | | | | Austria and Italy are calling for Europe to follow Australia's heavily criticised practice of processing asylum seekers at sea, bringing a veneer of legality and legitimacy to what are essentially push-back operations, write Azadeh Dastyari and Daniel Ghezelbash. | | | | Scientists have cracked the cane toad genome — a discovery that not only can help them understand why the iconic pest is such a successful invader but could identify biocontrols to stop it in its tracks. | | | | Infighting among National Party ranks is being fuelled by anger over a planned agricultural visa being shelved, and it is threatening the leadership of Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack. | | | | Scientists are using genetics in a bid to understand how poached ivory is shipped out of Africa, and uncover the big cartels behind the small-time poachers. | | | | Robotic skins embedded with sensors can now transform almost any soft object into a moving machine — and shape-changing capabilities are the next step. | | | | Scott Morrison describes the people who have hidden needles in fruit as "cowards", and wants new laws toughening up penalties to pass Parliament this week. | | | | The Victorian Government is spending over $1 million to clean up the creek contaminated in the huge industrial fire three weeks ago, as locals tell the ABC of a range of symptoms including nausea, repeated blood noses, sore chests, asthma and itchy eyes. | | | | A 46-year-old woman from Tasmania is in a critical condition after her leg was mauled by a shark while swimming from a yacht in the Whitsundays off the north Queensland coast. | | | | Mr Najib is arrested over the multi-million-dollar looting of the 1MDB state investment fund he set up, and will face further charges in court. | | | | As Australia's levels of household debt relative to disposable income hit historic highs, experts warn a new threat is looming for struggling home owners with a surge in repayments set to hit interest-only home loans. | | | | A baby meerkat at Perth Zoo disappears, with keepers fearing it has been stolen or taken by a predatory bird. | | | | Damien Pigot and Sandrine Mendy's friends say they are part of Tweed Head's "culinary fabric", but after more than 15 years the cafe owners are being deported, and have been given just two weeks to pack their bags. | | | | US President Donald Trump says it is "very hard for me to imagine that anything happened" after his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in the 1980s. | | | | A California man who appeared in a reality TV dating show, and an alleged female accomplice, have been charged with drugging and raping two women, and authorities say there could be many more victims. | | | | Keli Lane renews her bid for freedom and claims her daughter could be alive, seven years into her jail sentence for the murder of her daughter in 1996. | |  |
By Azadeh Dastyari and Daniel Ghezelbash | |  |
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