| | | | A tsunami hits a small city on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, collapsing buildings and washing a vessel onto land, following a magnitude-7.5 earthquake that struck offshore. | | | | A managing director and chairman gone, journalists under fire from alleged political interference and an embarrassing email from the past. The ABC has never seen a week like this. | | | | The furore that has surrounded the sacking of the ABC managing director, Michelle Guthrie, and the subsequent resignation of chairman Justin Milne has revealed two organisations that feel under perpetual siege, writes Laura Tingle. | | | | For the past six months, Kenneth Hayne has been sifting through a slew of financial services misconduct, rip-offs and regulatory inaction. Here are his initial thoughts on what's wrong with Australia's banks. | | | | When it comes to the financial planning industry, Commissioner Kenneth Hayne is blunt and to the point. In his interim report, he says two themes emerged: dishonesty and greed. And that was just the start. | | | | Buckled train tracks, grounded planes, melting bitumen and massive blackouts: the dystopian vision of the 50-degree city is closer to reality every day. So can we avoid the nightmare? | | | | Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh gains support of Republican Senator Jeff Flake, virtually ensuring his nomination will advance to the full Senate, despite sexual assault allegations from three women. | | | | Acting chair Kirstin Ferguson uses her first interview to back the ABC board, amid a growing chorus of discontent from staff over editorial independence. | | | | Content moderation is a mostly secretive and hidden industry, with work often outsourced to developing countries. Here, workers are routinely exposed to horrific content, offered little psychological support and forced to keep quiet — but a new documentary exposes it. | | | | If you were thinking of switching your clocks forward this weekend, think again — daylight saving time will be beginning a little later than you might have thought. | | | | A nationwide police manhunt paralyses Denmark after authorities cut off the eastern island of Zealand, where the capital of Copenhagen sits, from the rest of the country as well as from Germany and Sweden. | | | | On the surface, the island nation of Palau is a peaceful tropical paradise. But claims have emerged an Indian man transformed into a radical militant while living there. | | | | For an hour every month a simple coffee in a styrofoam cup becomes the fuel for trust-building conversations between a Sydney community and its police officers. | | | | China's wealthy citizens have been splashing out on real estate and luxury cars. Now they are turning to contemporary Western art to show off their cultural sophistication. | | | | South Australia's workplace inspector lays criminal charges against SA Police and the infrastructure department over the death of a cook who was trapped in a freezer at a police training facility. | | | | Patients are often frightened to hear the words "palliative care", thinking it means imminent death, and many doctors are scared to use it — but caregivers and patients say it can actually mean a longer and better-quality life. | | | | As reports of the forced detention and brainwashing of up to one million ethnic Uighurs continue to emerge from China's Xinjiang autonomous region, a witness who has been inside a "training" camp speaks out. | | | | Subcontractors and the construction union say they fear for the future of businesses and workers on a $1 billion Surfers Paradise development after some construction was suspended and workers laid off. | | | | Former British foreign secretary Boris Johnson calls on Prime Minister Theresa May to rip up her Brexit proposals, saying that under the current plan, the UK must "accept EU rules and regulations" with "absolutely no say on those laws". | | | | A photo of a 10-year-old boy who was standing behind a fence at a sports oval was used by The Centralian Advocate to illustrate a story about "youth crisis" in Alice Springs. His mother is suing for defamation amid claims the boy experienced hatred, ridicule, and contempt as a result. | | | | With 24 hours to go before the AFL grand final, the West Coast Eagles are still waiting on key defender Jeremy McGovern to prove his fitness for the decider against Collingwood. | |  |
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