| | | | Economists and property market analysts are keeping a close eye on the banking royal commission, as the lending clampdown it has inspired pulls house prices lower. | | | | Leaked US Navy images capture the dramatic moment a Chinese warship came perilously close to an American destroyer as it conducted a "freedom of navigation" patrol in the South China Sea. | | | | Melbourne broadcaster Red Symons's son Samuel, who was diagnosed with a brain tumour as a child, dies aged 27 after living years longer than doctors expected. | | | | Just hours after China's tax department announces she will need to pay a total of 883.946 million yuan ($179 million) in unpaid taxes and fines, the 37-year-old breaks her silence on the social media platform Weibo. | | | | Up to 800 workers walk off the job at the Jewel Resort development on the Gold Coast, with subcontractors worried they will lose hundreds of thousands of dollars as the developer instructs them to drastically reduce their work at the towers. | | | | The crew of the Westpac Lifesaver rescuer chopper is forced wait for a drone to clear the area before it can rescue a 76-year-old fisherman stranded on the rocks in the Gold Coast Seaway. | | | | Just weeks after the honey industry was put under the spotlight over using adulterated imported honey, the pressure is now on authorities to start testing local honey after nearly one in five samples was revealed to be not pure. | | | | The White House says a New York Times report claiming Donald Trump helped his parents dodge millions of dollars in taxes is "misleading". | | | | French police arrest a notorious gangster who went on the run after being broken out of prison by heavily armed gunmen and escaping in a helicopter that landed in the prison grounds, police sources say. | | | | The ABC understands drag marks of up to 30 metres were seen near the body found at Buffalo Creek Reserve at Hunters Hill in Sydney's north. | | | | The incident where a Chinese state media reporter disrupted an event at the Conservative Party conference in the UK, slapping a volunteer, comes as China is more forcefully asserting its world view on the global stage, writes Bill Birtles. | | | | After a certain age women aren't really meant to talk about the fact they're still sexual, says comedian Judith Lucy, who is determined to challenge that idea. | | | | The hearts of armchair birdwatchers are aflutter after the hatching of three peregrine falcon chicks was streamed online from a nest atop a Melbourne skyscraper. | | | | The former managing director of Australia's largest rural water corporation might have to repay thousands of dollars of public funds he spent on items such as a new barbecue and alcohol. | | | | The 10 per cent tax on tampons and pads will be removed after states and territories agreed to make sanitary products exempt from the GST. | | | | The woman who led Australia's first protest against the GST on sanitary products welcomes the tax removal but says after an 18-year fight she no longer has any need for tampons. | | | | The largest-ever survey of women with endometriosis in Australia finds cannabis works better for pain relief than hot water bottles and heat packs, exercise, meditation breathing practices, and yoga. | | | | A drought levy on milk to help drought-affected farmers is a "con job" because it could draw customers away from branded milk, which provides a higher return to farmers, the Queensland Dairyfarmers' Organisation says. | | | | A Sydney council's planned "cat ban" has feline fans and critics split over whether the move is purrfect or a cat-astrophe. | | | | The Goblin, a frozen world just 300 kilometres across and which travels on a 40,000-year-long elongated orbit around the Sun, was spotted by astronomers in 2015 around Halloween, thus its spooky name. | |  |
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