| | | | Health Minister Greg Hunt extends the deadline for opting out of the My Health Record system, confirming the delay within hours of the opt-out website suffering issues as Australians tried to remove themselves from the controversial scheme. | | | | If you don't make a choice by January 31, you'll have a My Health Record automatically created for you. Read on for a guide to what may change about the system, and what's still leaving some people concerned. | | | | Three men were found guilty of planning to conduct a terror attack in Melbourne's CBD over the Christmas period in 2016, in a verdict handed down earlier this month, the ABC can reveal. | | | | I spent a year working as a surveillance investigator for some of Australia's biggest insurers. I followed more than 100 people, clocking up well over 1000 hours in my car and picked up nine demerit points doing it. Here's what I learnt, writes Jessicah Mendes. | | | | Australians think it is the best time to buy a house since March 2015, led by NSW residents who seem increasingly keen to take advantage of falling prices, according to Westpac's consumer confidence survey. | | | | There are steps you can take to make sure you're not being short-changed at work because you had a baby. Here's what the employment law experts suggest. | | | | Four members of a family face the death penalty after a grand jury charges them with the execution-style shooting deaths of eight members of another rural Ohio family. | | | | The Victorian Greens reject suggestions their controversial rapper candidate recently released a song that includes a boast about violence against women, saying the lyric in question is actually about drug use. | | | | Over the past week we've been told by economists at the Grattan Institute that Australians have plenty of money to retire on and the superannuation system is just fine. Most Australians would think this is a very strange conclusion, writes Scott Connolly. | | | | Ai Group received a report that detailed serious safety concerns at a worksite. They sent an apprentice to work there anyway and a fortnight later he died. | | | | Melania Trump confirms she wants Mira Ricardel to be sacked from her role at the National Security Council, amid reports Donald Trump has already decided to remove her. | | | | An unborn baby is saved by doctors after his mother is shot and killed with a crossbow at her home in London, British police say. The victim's husband says his wife was shot in front of her five other children. | | | | In 1942, 395 hand-written letters fell from the sky. By the time they were delivered, the Australian men who wrote them were dead. | | | | A Queenslander who says he found himself constantly checking for onions in his path after slipping over at Bunnings has welcomed the hardware giant's new "under the sausage" directive. | | | | Tasmania Police say they have located the body of 70-year-old Elson Robert Kiddle, who has been missing since last Friday. They say there are no suspicious circumstances. | | | | Red and processed meats are carcinogenic and researchers say taxing the products would save lives and curb consumption, which could in turn see global greenhouse gas emissions drop. | | | | In five posts sent on the same day France marked the anniversary of the 2015 terrorist attacks that killed 130 people in Paris, Donald Trump blasts the key US ally over its near-defeat to Germany in two world wars, its wine industry and the French President's approval ratings. | | | | Forensic teams combing through the ghostly landscape of the devastated down of Paradise find more bodies, raising the death toll, with hundreds of people still listed as missing. | | | | A group of avoidable risk factors took the lives of nearly 30 million people around the world last year, according to a new global health report. | | | | Darren Belling helped take Australia to its first Para-ice hockey World Championships, but his journey was book-ended by humiliation after being forced to urinate in a water bottle and later stranded in Brisbane while his wheelchair sat more than 12,000km away. | | | | Australia advances to the last four of the Women's World Twenty20, with Alyssa Healy starring once again as her team beats New Zealand by 33 runs. | | | | If you're travelling to Asia, you're probably mindful of the risks of malaria, dengue, or Zika. But authorities are warning Australians to take care to avoid another mosquito-borne disease. | | | | The family of a 102-year-old aged care resident claims she hasn't had a care plan for 18 months, with her daughter saying she has even taken over washing her mother's sheets and clothes. | |  |
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