| | | | Wentworth's changing electorate profile sheds light on how its affluent suburbs have changed over the decades — and how its residents might be approaching today's crucial by-election. | | | | Listen to all the spin on Saturday night about the result of the Wentworth by-election, but it shouldn't blot out the host of important messages that have emerged already, writes Laura Tingle. | | | | A loud fireworks display masks the approach of a speeding train as dozens of people watch effigies burn near Amritsar in India's northern Punjab state. | | | | Abu Jafaar, a cannabis farmer in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, is leading the push against the legalisation of cannabis production by the government, calling it "theft from our people". | | | | Women looking to become police officers in Indonesia are reported to have to undergo an invasive "two-finger" virginity test and be "pretty" as a part of the recruitment process. | | | | The Federal Court has heard a dizzying series of claims about an alleged tax evasion scheme estimated to have cost the ATO more than $100 million, including how a home was bought using cash totalling $100,000. | | | | The suspected murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi has cast a harsh spotlight on Saudi Arabia, yet untangling the case is creating a diplomatic quagmire for countries around the world with ties to the Middle Eastern kingdom. | | | | The Duchess of Sussex is proving to be something of a clotheshorse. But unlike the Duchess of Cambridge, Meghan sends the fashionverse into meltdown whenever she steps out — and the designers aren't wasting a moment, writes Micheline Maynard. | | | | The shock was palpable in the groups that gathered behind the police tap. Morningside State School had gone up in flames and Freya Petersen's suburb was struggling to cope. But they're not alone: schools across the country have rebuilt after crisis. | | | | As punters head to the races this weekend for the first day of the spring carnival, new figures released show that Australia still leads the field in gambling losses, with each adult on average losing more than $1,200 per year. | | | | The Sydney Anglican Church is set to vote on sweeping powers that will ensure that no same-sex marriage services or receptions, meditative yoga or traditional Indigenous smoking ceremonies will be held on any of their extensive properties. | | | | I left Australia with a clear idea of where I was heading, but 36 countries, 83 buses and 23 shared cars later, I learnt five lessons that will last me a lifetime, writes Edward Cavanough. | | | | Europe and Japan are about launch an ambitious mission to Mercury — if they succeed, it will only be the third time we have visited this mysterious world. We explain what the BepiColombo mission is and how it plans to get to get there. | | | | The quantum world defies logic: wrap your brain around instantaneous messaging between distant particles, or cats that are alive and dead at the same time. Maybe physicists should leave human intuition at the laboratory door when designing quantum experiments too. | | | | It's the strawberry punnet whodunit. An entire industry was brought to its knees in September when needles were discovered in fruit picked and packed for public consumption. | | | | Janne McMahon — one of the winners of the 2018 Australian Mental Health Prize — knows what dark times feel like. She says the voices of those experiencing mental illness are heard a little louder today, but more can be done. | | | | When Leesa Kwok's partner Jamie first got a call about the Invictus Games, he was spending most of his time in their walk-in wardrobe, shut off from the world. Now wheelchair sports have "brought him back to life". | | | | Pakistan wins the second Test by 373 runs to claim the series 1-0. With Usman Khawaja unable to bat due to a knee injury, Australia finishes on 9-164. | | | | A parliamentary hearing is told that many more than the 22 allotted government agencies have been accessing metadata, in what industry representatives are referring to as "authority creep". | | | | Australia's most decorated soldier has responded to allegations in a defence document in defamation proceedings before the Federal Court. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. | | | | President Donald Trump praises a Republican congressman for body-slamming a reporter last year, calling him a "tough cookie" and saying he thinks it might have helped him win election in Montana. | |  |
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