| | | | Listen to recordings of Keli Lane explaining what happened in the final moments with her baby daughter as she opens up about the years her life went off the rails. | | | | Nobel Prize-winning scientist Barrie Pittock is living with Alzheimer's and is involved in a trial that questions everything we know about the disease. Australian researchers believe the plaque on his brain may be a symptom of the condition, not the cause. | | | | At least one farmer is denied access to a river system in drought-stricken Queensland, despite mining giant Adani planning to draw a similar amount of water as all agricultural users combined, documents obtained under freedom of information laws show. | | | | Hawthorn midfielder Tom Mitchell wins the 2018 Brownlow Medal, edging out surprise contender Steele Sidebottom of Collingwood. | | | | A motorcyclist is killed in a crash, and a 27-year-old woman who stops to help is then struck by another car in a double fatality in Melbourne's east. | | | | How did a seaside resort popular with tourists, retirees and the Greek diaspora become a death trap? Foreign Correspondent travels to the coastal town of Mati where locals say a staggering chain of mistakes cost nearly 100 lives. | | | | For some women, PMS might mean a few hours of discomfort or irritability in the lead-up to their period. For others, it can be days off work, severely low moods and "not being able to cope at home". | | | | Hundreds of paramilitary camps used by Aboriginal troopers who worked with white police to crush the Indigenous resistance have been discovered in Queensland. | | | | US President Donald Trump will meet later this week with Deputy Attorney-General Rod Rosenstein, amid indications Mr Rosenstein is about to lose his job. | | | | Hidden cameras uncover shocking revelations of workers abusing residents at nursing homes in Australia, but legal experts and employee advocates warn their use is a legal minefield. | | | | A sentencing hearing for the comedian begins with a debate about whether the 81-year-old should be declared a "sexually violent predator" — a scarlet letter that would make him subject to mandatory lifetime counselling and community notification of his whereabouts. | | | | A New Zealand man who injected lamb carcasses with chemicals to kill protected native birds was under pressure from his boss to increase lamb survival rates, a court hears. | | | | An adventurer dubbed the "Mad Belgian" emerges from the Tasmanian wilderness after 52 days completing a historic winter crossing of the state. | | | | A new virtual reality experience, designed to immerse users in a playground and classroom as a child with hearing loss, is helping to foster empathy in parents, teachers and other students. | | | | A 15-year-old girl with complex mental health issues is spending long stints in seclusion because of staff shortages, sources tell the ABC. | | | | It's the last thing drought-declared Queensland graziers need, but dry conditions are now affecting a wide-range of feed supplements given to animals when grass and hay run low. | | | | Cootamundra High School's science labs were built before the moon landing, before the first kidney transplant, and only a few years after DNA was discovered. | | | | A Northern Territory beekeeper says about 1 million of his bees have been deliberately killed with an insecticide, in the second suspected poisoning of commercial bee boxes near Katherine in a year. | | | | ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie is "devastated" after being sacked just two-and-a-half years into her five-year term, with chairman Justin Milne saying "her leadership style was not the style that we needed going forward". | | | | The mother of an experienced young sailor who died of carbon monoxide poisoning says faster action is needed from governments to prevent someone else suffering the same fate. | | | | An Indonesian teenager speaks about surviving on fish and seawater strained through his clothing after the wooden fishing trap he was minding slipped its moorings, drifting about 1,900 kilometres. | |  |
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