| | | | The inside story of that meeting between Australia's then High Commissioner to the UK, Alexander Downer and Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos. | | | | On Australian farms, families have been uncovering ancient Aboriginal artefacts for generations and now they're being encouraged to show them to researchers. | | | | When ABC Radio Melbourne's Rafael Epstein travelled to the United States to talk to its bewildered citizens about their media, he expected cynicism and tribalism. But he wasn't expecting the doomsaying. | | | | A cancer diagnosis is traumatic curve ball no-one expects, but the effect the disease and subsequent treatment can have on a person's sex life is something rarely talked about. Patients say having that information at the outset is crucial. | | | | Climate change in the Arctic is happening so quickly, the Norwegian Government has been forced to spend $A17 million to fix a subterranean vault that is preserving the world's seeds. | | | | The home-grown technology of Carnegie Clean Energy to harvest the power of waves has, until now, been irresistible to politicians of all stripes and thousands of small investors, but a storm has hit and the wave energy dream appears in doubt. | | | | Education experts in Australia voice concern over the number unqualified foreign English teachers hired overseas based on their "white face" and who are teaching simply to make some money to "stay afloat". | | | | Human Services Minister Michael Keenan says travel bans will be used as a measure of last resort in a bid to recoup debts totalling more than $800 million across the country. | | | | Inside the Liberal party this week there has been less paddling of individual canoes than we saw in the dying days of the Turnbull era, but it hasn't all been smooth sailing for the Good Boat Morrison, writes Laura Tingle. | | | | Hilary Talbot is forced back to the drawing board every time a government cuts the strings on its prime minister. | | | | Nimita doesn't eat after dark in case she accidentally swallows an insect — and doesn't play cricket, so as not to hurt the grass. She's one of Australia's 4,000 followers of Jainism. | | | | Cambodian authorities issue a royal pardon for Australian filmmaker James Ricketson, who was last month sentenced to six years in prison for espionage. | | | | More than 50,000 abandoned mine sites dot Australia, but they can be transformed into valuable assets from solar farms to lakes and even wedding venues, writes Mohan Yellishetty. | | | | Jonathan Page's relationships with his patients were once characterised by "coldness … and a lack of grieving". But a mental health crisis that led him to Buddhist meditation helped change that. | | | | Efforts begin to clear the site of a deliberate train derailment in north-west Tasmania after operators of a driverless train lost control of the locomotive before deliberately crashed it into fencing. | | | | Researchers around the world have been working overtime to understand what stem cells are, how to control them, and — most importantly — what can be done with them to improve medicine for everyday people. Now, their hard work is starting to pay off. | | | | Abandoning his previous restraint, President Donald Trump challenges the credibility of the woman accusing his Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault, declaring that if the alleged attack was so terrible she would have reported it to law enforcement. | | | | Director Bruce Beresford has a special connection — in fact, several — with Madeleine St John's tale of shopgirls, friendship and love across cultures. | | | | Collingwood produces one of the great preliminary final upsets, demolishing Richmond in the first half and holding on to end the Tigers' 22-game winning streak at the MCG. | | | | Billy Slater says farewell to AAMI Park with two tries, but he could be in trouble with the judiciary as Melbourne Storm seals a spot in the grand final with a comfortable win over Cronulla. | | | | There are only a few dozen orange-bellied parrots left alive in the wild, so this species will be flown to Tasmania by plane, rather than migrating naturally, in a desperate effort to prevent their extinction. | |  |
By Mohan Yellishetty | |  |
By Laura Tingle | |  |
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