| | | | Medical bodies are calling for other states and territories to urgently follow Queensland and conduct health screening of all past and present workers involved in cutting stone to make kitchen benchtops. | | | | Ken Fleming QC, counsel assisting the coroner at the Dreamworld tragedy inquest, has condemned Shine Lawyers for spruiking a civil lawsuit against the theme park while hearings are still underway. | | | | Obesity cannot be addressed at the level of individual risk factors or behaviours — it's the product of a complex system fuelled by powerful corporate actors, writes Lisa Bero. | | | | A US meteorologist says she has been treated "not just as an employee, but as a mother" after she brought her one-year-old son with her to deliver a weather report. | | | | The reporting website's "working hypothesis" is that the entire Malaysian contingent of the MH17 Joint Investigation Team, or one member of it, had been compromised by Russia's spies. | | | | Images surface in Turkish media of a 15-man "assassination squad" allegedly sent to target Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as sources say a bone saw was used to get rid of the body. | | | | Wall Street is facing its worst day in eight months, with the Dow Jones index plunging by more than 800 points as investors dump big-name tech and consumer stocks like Facebook, Apple and Amazon. | | | | The former NSW Director of Public Prosecutions Nicholas Cowdery issues a public apology after saying killer Keli Lane was only a threat to the "virile young male portion of the community". | | | | There is a small group of powerful women working very hard behind Australia's music and entertainment scene to put on good shows and, as the industry faces a gender diversity problem, their influence is being celebrated. | | | | Having ditched its $36 billion corporate tax cut plan, the Coalition's new plan is to lower the tax rate for small and medium businesses over the next four years. | | | | For those used to monogamous relationships, the modern variations on love and sex can be bewildering. But some people insist they're worth a try. | | | | Booted out of their solar system, Jupiter-like planets can take moons with them — and sustain life that might hitch a ride. | | | | Only 34 of these violent flashes have been spotted before, but now radio astronomers have detected 20 in just one year using the ASKAP telescope in Western Australia. | | | | A $261 million Queensland Government water quality program is failing to protect the Great Barrier Reef from fertiliser run-off, with sugar cane farmers still using excessive chemicals on their properties, Right to Information documents obtained by the ABC reveal. | | | | Nearly a month since a strawberry with a needle in it was reported to Queensland Police, authorities have not revealed the source of the initial contamination, as life slowly returns to normal for strawberry growers. | | | | Forner attorney-general Philip Ruddock says his report into religious protections recommends narrowing the scope of existing sex discrimination laws which allow religious schools to refuse to teach gay pupils. | | | | Avocado supply in Australia has skyrocketed, meaning the much-loved smashed avo could become a little more affordable. | | | | A Victorian survivor of child sexual abuse says applying for compensation was a traumatic process. Now she could be facing years of uncertainty while authorities try to deal with her claim. | | | | Suffering gastro is far from the most enjoyable experience — and now research from the Australian National University has revealed the weather conditions that cause more people to endure it. | | | | China's western Xinjiang region changes its laws to allow minority Uighur Muslims to be placed in "vocational training centres" — facilities Western nations say are actually massive internment camps. | | | | It would take a miracle for Australia to avoid a crushing defeat in the first Test against Pakistan in Dubai, with yet another batting collapse the undoing of the touring Aussies. | | | | Though whale sightings are higher than previous years, experts say numbers have not necessarily increased. But their watchers, and the tech tracking them, sure have. | |  |
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