| | | | An informal cricket match at the Manly Life Saving Club ends in disaster, with the batsman ordered by a court to pay almost $700,000 in damages after hitting an aspiring Olympian in the eye with a "well-timed shot". | | | | Former foreign minister Julie Bishop describes the moment she confronted Russian President Vladimir Putin over the MH17 disaster on behalf of Tony Abbott, an event she says was "more of a diplomatic buttonholing" than a "shirtfronting". | | | | Young Saga Vanecek was swimming with her family in southern Sweden's Lake Vidosten when she stumbled upon the find of a lifetime — an Iron Age warrior's sword, dating back as much as 1,500 years. | | | | Prime Minister Scott Morrison orders an investigation into why his Assistant Treasurer Stuart Robert has been slugging taxpayers up to $2,800 a month for his internet bills at his home on Queensland's Gold Coast. | | | | Australia's Department of Defence and Bureau of Meteorology have held contracts for Supermicro hardware — the company whose technology was allegedly infiltrated by malicious computer chips planted by Chinese spies. | | | | The agency that collects royalties on behalf of record labels and musicians tried for years to get Hairy Little Sista, in the CBD, to pay for the right to play music, a court hears. | | | | The 23-year-old was working on a fishing trawler when he was bitten as he hauled up a net. He was declared dead when the vessel reached port in the Gulf of Carpentaria. | | | | The man who painted offensive graffiti beside a memorial to comedian Eurydice Dixon in Melbourne's Princes Park is appealing against his conviction and sentence, despite pleading guilty. | | | | When Joost Bakker learned that thousands of tulips were about to be thrown away because they weren't good enough for sale, he loaded up a truck and filled a Melbourne laneway with spring colour. | | | | Humans are far outweighed by plants and many tiny things, say scientists who recently estimated the mass of all living things on the planet. | | | | Can a humble typeface improve your mental processes? A team of experts have developed a hard-to-read font specifically designed to help you remember things — aptly named Sans Forgetica. | | | | The Federal Court opens a legal can of worms, ruling that an automated letter from the Tax Office relieving a taxpayer of interest charges on a debt could not be relied on as a "decision" because there was no human mental process accompanying it. | | | | It's an oft-stated truism that crosswords are good for your brain — but is that correct? Australian researchers who studied an expert's grey matter while he pondered puzzles are hoping to find out. | | | | Two men believed to be aged in their 40s are injured in a light plane crash near Stawell, in Victoria's west. | | | | When a mayday comes in, air control is ready. But a hidden plan means there's potential for chaos far beyond the airport's wire fence. | | | | "Morrison needs time," is the mantra. But by the time the Government gets to a May election, the arguments about policy will have deepened, and how will Mr Morrison go then, asks Michelle Grattan. | | | | Four men from the same family fail to return from a fishing trip off Perth after setting out on Wednesday night in a 5.5-metre boat amid severe winds, with a large-scale air and sea search yet to find any trace of them. | | | | The South Australian industrial town of Port Augusta used to be known for its two coal-fired power plants, but since they closed it has set its sights on becoming the renewables capital of Australia, or even the world. | | | | Naz Wapau was homeless and at the point of giving up when she got a job that gave her the inspiration and the second chance she needed to change her life, moving from the streets to a career with Queensland Police Service. | | | | Up to 70 millimetres of rain is dumped across Sydney overnight as farmers in some drought-stricken regions of the state celebrate the arrival of significant falls. | | | | Blindfolded, tranquilised and slung under helicopters, hundreds of mountain goats are being shipped out of a national park in the USA after they are found to be "persistently seeking ... human urine". | |  |
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