| | | The Best Stories are Yours We want to know what the ABC means to you, your family, your community. Share your memory of the ABC with us. You can upload it to social media using the #ABCyours hashtag. See how other Australians are sharing their stories here. | | | Burt Reynolds was once Hollywood's most bankable leading man and starred in a run of hits including comedy Smokey and the Bandit and the Oscar-nominated Deliverance. | | | | It's been a fortnight. Expect to see many more baseball caps as PM 30 keeps distinguishing himself from PM 29, writes Annabel Crabb. | | | | The nation's top real estate agent has some advice for anyone trying to get on top of property prices, and he admits many people will hate it. | | | | Child safety advocates say the sentencing system needs to be "thrown out" after it was revealed the man who killed Caboolture toddler Mason Jet Lee could walk free from jail after just four years in prison. | | | | The man Peter Dutton hand-picked as the first Australian Border Force commissioner, Roman Quaedvlieg (left), says the Minister's chief of staff rang him to ask what could be done to help "the boss's mate" in securing a visa for an Italian nanny. | | | | However odious many find this most unusual of leaders, the US President can rightly be angry about the "resistance" within his office. If he is to fail or succeed, it's for the voters, the courts or Congress to decide, not concerned White House officials, writes Philip Williams. | | | | After some incredible exploits by sporting mothers, the idea that giving birth might ultimately help athletes perform better has gained currency. Though it's more about their heads than their bodies. | | | | It's not just investigators wondering how a man was killed in a crane accident in Melbourne yesterday, with the construction union saying it's not sure "what's gone on" in the tightly regulated industry. | | | | The Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan drowned in her London hotel bathtub because of alcohol intoxication, a British coroner says, ruling the death a "tragic accident". | | | | The world's biggest farm chemical company, Bayer, is facing billions of dollars in lawsuits after a US jury found last month the weed killer Roundup caused a school groundsman's cancer, prompting fears among Australian farmers that the chemical will be banned or restricted. | | | | An area bigger than Tasmania has been carved from the habitats of threatened species in just 17 years, prompting one environmental researcher to describe the situation as a "deep shame for Australia". | | | | "Bin chickens", "tip turkeys", "sandwich snatchers" and "picnic pirates". Ibises have become an Australian cultural phenomenon and their tenacity as environmental refugees means they attract love and hate alike, write Paul Allatson and Andrea Connor. | | | | A family in Tripoli say they are still in shock over allegations that three brothers plotted to blow up an Etihad flight departing Sydney last year. | | | | Russia's UN ambassador accuses Britain of producing an "unfounded and mendacious cocktail of facts," and is refusing to cooperate on the investigation of a poisoned ex-Russian spy. | | | | Testing is underway to determine exactly why an orange purchased at a Brisbane fruit and veg shop turned purple hours after it was cut open. | | | | Why don't Muslim women talk more openly about the effects of male violence on our families? The answers are complex, but more of us are starting to find our voices, writes Amani Haydar. | | | | Geelong has struggled to make an impact in the AFL finals since its most recent premiership in 2011 so the pressure is building on the Cats ahead of facing the Demons, writes Corbin Middlemas. | | | | The Tigers are only a win away from another grand final appearance after beating the Hawks by 31 points at the MCG to kick off the AFL finals series. | | | | Protesters disrupt a media conference called by Katter's Australian Party MPs in Brisbane on the eve of the party losing four staff members in Queensland over Fraser Anning's controversial speech to the Senate. | |  |
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