| | | | If you hadn't heard that Australia's carbon pollution has risen to its highest level since 2011, it may be because that data was released on the Friday afternoon before a long weekend. But the Government had the data for seven weeks, FOI documents show. | | | | The former PM discusses how the Liberal Party could bring more women to Parliament, the revolving door of political leadership, and the importance of having difficult conversations ahead of World Mental Health Day. | | | | Palu's recent homeless see no option but to flee their destroyed city, with hundreds queueing at the airport to escape on military planes while the highways are clogged by survivors and humanitarian aid. | | | | It's like a modern day air raid siren — a test run of a presidential alert message is delivered to 225 million mobile devices in the United States, in practice for imminent national emergencies. | | | | Off-the-plan apartment buyers are being hit with the double-whammy of tougher home loan rules and falling property prices, leaving many struggling to complete their purchases. | | | | ACTU Secretary Sally McManus will outline a plan for workers to engage in sector or industry bargaining, seizing on concerns over sluggish wage growth and fuelling debate about Australia's industrial relations landscape months out from a federal election. | | | | Theresa May calls on her Conservative Party to pull together and unite behind her Brexit plan, saying "if we hold our nerve" she can win a deal "that delivers for Britain". | | | | 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. | | | | Russian President Vladimir Putin calls Sergei Skripal, the former spy poisoned with a deadly nerve agent in Britain, a "scumbag" and a "traitor to the motherland". | | | | People in remote Aboriginal communities are being issued with hundreds of dollars' worth of fines under a work-for-the-dole scheme meant to help them, data obtained by the ABC reveals. And there is an alarming link between fine level and Indigenous status. | | | | New data from the Hubble telescope adds weight to earlier suggestions there might be a Neptune-sized moon orbiting an alien planet 8,000 light-years from Earth. | | | | Glenorchy ratepayers paid $369,000 to former general manager Peter Brooks in the last financial year despite his employment ending in November, it is revealed. | | | | The term 'gap year' tends to make you think of high school grads running from responsibilities and partying their way across distant lands. But what if, instead of backpacks and bar crawls, you took time out mid-career? | | | | 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. | | | | Coalition senator for Queensland Matt Canavan says that the State Government's proposed abortion laws would allow unrestricted access to abortion beyond 22 weeks. RMIT ABC Fact Check finds his claim to be baseless. | | | | With 20 of 24 family members struck down with Huntington's disease, two young women eagerly watch international trials for answers. | | | | It's possible to for a man to father a child after his death — but is it ethical? And what does the law say? A series of Australian court cases provide an insight. | | | | Our teenage memories of high school experiences become fonder as years go by because we cherry-pick them to feel better about ourselves, a memory expert says. | | | | Australian research uncovers a link between being transgender and changes in genes that process sex hormones. | | | | Unusable clothing donations are being sent to landfill and it is costing Australian charities millions of dollars, prompting experts to warn about the dangers of fast fashion. | | | | If equality meant justice, then justice would mean no ramps for the disabled or Health Care Cards for low-income earners — we'd all be subject to "equal treatment", regardless of need. The same applies to school funding, and this is why public and private schools were always treated differently under Gonski, writes Glenn C. Savage. | | | | The skies above Broken Hill turn red as an intense dust storm sweeps through the city, resurfacing memories of the "big storms" the area received a decade ago. | |  |
By Glenn C. Savage | |  |
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