| | | | A company given millions of taxpayer dollars to cull the devastating crown-of-thorns starfish on the Great Barrier Reef altered a scientific report about the "poor management" of its own program, an ABC investigation can reveal. | | | | A 17-year-old boy is charged after a 12-year-old girl was attacked with a box cutter while walking to school in Logan in Brisbane's south yesterday morning. | | | | If Saudi Arabia is found to be responsible for Jamal Khashoggi's death, there could be consequences — but the kingdom says it will hit back if sanctions are imposed. | | | | A Senate committee argues Australians should be given another year to opt out of the My Health Record system, to boost awareness of the scheme before a digital medical file is automatically created for them. | | | | What on earth were they thinking? A brain fade of epic proportions from Pakistan's Azhar Ali results in one of the most incredible run-outs you will ever see. | | | | After leaving the last Olympics "ashamed" to have not won a medal, Australian champion swimmer Cate Campbell is now winning the mental battle on the road towards redemption at Tokyo 2020 — with a little assistance from the SAS. | | | | An American tourist who discovered a five-year-old GoPro on the seabed of the Great Barrier Reef takes to Facebook and Reddit to return its near-300 photos and videos to the rightful owners. | | | | The exquisitely preserved fossil of a strange bony reef fish that lived during the time of the dinosaurs has been discovered — along with some of its potential victims. | | | | A new technique for analysing existing data is peering into our planet's deepest interior and hinting that Earth's inner core isn't all that it seems. | | | | ABC News obtains a copy of last month's audit report, which found that "one care recipient did not have breakfast due to lack of staff", one was seen "eating dessert with her fingers" and another was found "rummaging through a bin containing used incontinence aids". | | | | A Japanese maker of seismic dampeners — used to reduce the impacts of earthquakes — is found to have falsified inspection data for more than a decade. | | | | US President Donald Trump threatens to deploy the military and close the southern US border as more Hondurans and Salvadorans join thousands of migrants in Guatemala heading north. | | | | People with cystic fibrosis may have a better quality of life with a new drug that's showing promising results in recent trials, and could be available within five years. | | | | Territory Day is the night of nights for fireworks aficionados and amateurs alike. But with 38 injuries at this year's event, the NT Centre for Disease Control has recommended limiting their sale — and even banning multi-shot crackers. | | | | Forget Insta-bait: the Museum of Contemporary Art's summer show features politically-charged black-and-white photography by an artist you've likely not heard of — and they couldn't be happier. | | | | Rock stacks are a familiar site in wilderness areas the world over, but their creation for aesthetic purposes and artistic social media photos is becoming controversial. | | | | An Australian company is pushing ahead with plans to open a coal-fired power plant and coal mine in Papua New Guinea, despite the recent call from the world's most authoritative climate science body to completely cut greenhouse emissions by 2050. | | | | Police investigate the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl, who they say was dragged into bushland and sexually assaulted after getting off her school bus. | | | | Australia's citrus growers are set for another record year, as return prices and exports rise to a new high. | | | | They may be slightly off the beaten track, but two towns in South Australia say Google and Apple have got it wrong when it comes to travel times — and it's costing both towns crucial tourism trade. | | | | Aine McGrath was exchanging text messages with her boyfriend before losing control of her car on Perth's Mitchell Freeway, crossing four lanes of traffic and slamming into a car in a collision that killed her friend. | | | | The Washington Post publishes a new column by missing Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi in which he warned that governments in the Middle East "have been given free rein to continue silencing the media at an increasing rate". | | | | China is reportedly in the process of creating three "artificial moons" that would light up the south-western city of Chengdu, saving $240 million in annual electricity costs. | |  |
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