| | | | As the Government prepares to table its response to the Senate inquiry into vaginal mesh, patients say "women are still not being believed by their doctors" and some are "expecting to die from their complications". | | | | After the financial services royal commission's scathing interim report slammed banks for "a culture of greed", the Australian Banking Association is seeking to change the way institutions manage a customer's estate so that fees are no longer charged when they die. | | | | Ms Haley, who is seen as a rising star in the Republican Party and a possible candidate for the 2020 presidential elections, says she will not be running in 2020, and would campaign for Donald Trump. | | | | The Government's populist ploy to force migrants to live in country towns won't fix the fact that we need skilled migration to cope with retiring baby boomers, writes Chris Johnson. | | | | More than a thousand protesters disrupt the controversial Everest horse race illumination by painting over the light show with torches and lamps, as well as sending up helium balloons in an effort to obscure the promotion. | | | | Ovarian cancer is a deadly disease that is on the rise, but there is no screening program for it and the majority of women are unaware of its symptoms. | | | | For many Australians, America's pitched partisan battles over judicial appointments look unseemly and absurd. But our own mechanisms for appointing judges to our top court are less immune to partisanship than you might think. | | | | Girls are encouraged more often to read, despite performing better in reading assessments nationally and internationally. Here's how parents and educators can help connect boys with books, writes Margaret Kristin Merga. | | | | An annual survey of freshwater crocodiles in Western Australia's East Kimberley records its lowest numbers in five years, indicating the crocs dispersed during last year's big wet season. | | | | Since Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared last week, the investigation into his whereabouts has been clouded by diplomatic immunity and a potential murder scene that is off-limits to local authorities. | | | | People watching the 2018 NRL grand final on TV were exposed to 376 instances of alcohol advertising, researchers claim, as they renew calls for an end to alcohol advertisements during sporting events. | | | | Scientists say the eating quality of tough cuts of meat like shank, silverside and chuck steak can be improved using shockwave technology. | | | | The ABC has emails showing the Lord Mayor's chief of staff knew of exploitation allegations related to sub-contracted IT workers almost three years ago, but Graham Quirk said in August they'd only just learned of the issue. | | | | Bulgarian police question and then release a suspect in connection with the killing of investigative journalist Viktoria Marinova, whose body was found in a park in her hometown of Ruse four days ago. | | | | Train travel to Xinjiang province is suspended indefinitely amid reports Muslim detainees are being transported to prisons elsewhere in China, fuelling speculation Beijing wants to obscure its mass political re-education program. | | | | A new partnership between an Adelaide university and one of the world's largest arms manufacturers is described as "disgraceful", with the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) joining the fight against militarisation of Australian universities. | | | | A Western Australian woman who founded a mental health peer-support network due to a lack of services in regional WA has found the process to be its own form of therapy. | | | | Australian Abrasive Minerals has new Australian investors and greater certainty as it brings its garnet mine north-east of Alice Springs back online. | | | | A woman allegedly taken hostage with her mother and two sons after the house they were in was set alight is found by New South Wales police in bushland. | | | | Expeditioners at Australia's Antarctic stations are using virtual reality to help them cope during months of isolation — and the research could be used for astronauts going to Mars. | | | | In more bad news for farmers, there is now a 70 per cent chance of an El Nino this year, which would bring hot and dry conditions. | |  |
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