| | | | It is not yet known how much US money will be pumped into the Manus base, but Vice-President Mike Pence says the Trump administration wants to "protect the sovereignty and maritime routes of Pacific Island nations". | | | | A man dies after being stung by a stingray in waters near Hobart, despite attempts by paramedics to resuscitate him, with onlookers at the scene too shocked to speak. | | | | It's 6:30am and I've just brewed my first ever almond-milk coffee. Either I've done something wrong, or almond-milk coffee is the greatest lie ever sold. | | | | One year since the royal commission into youth detention handed down its recommendations to overhaul the youth justice sector, the daily conditions experienced by young people inside Don Dale remain largely unchanged, advocates say. | | | | Sarah Larcombe is only 26, but she has had more surgery than most will in a lifetime — including having part of her anatomy removed. But that doesn't stop strangers judging and confronting her. Now she's calling for change. | | | | The CIA believes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, a source familiar with the matter says, complicating Donald Trump's efforts to preserve ties with a key US ally. | | | | The government is usually the master of its own political strategy, but the timing of the next election is becoming more complicated by the day, writes Laura Tingle. | | | | A 24-year-old man believed to have been taking part in a surfing lesson feels "forceful lashing" to his legs and suffers deep lacerations in a shark attack at Seven Mile Beach, Gerroa, in NSW Illawarra region. | | | | The magazine's founders say they experienced "a flood of judgement" after Australia voted to legalise same-sex marriage last year, and a number of advertisers withdrew their support. | | | | US President Donald Trump says he "very easily" completed his written answers for special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's role in the 2016 US election, but that his lawyers still have them. | | | | The NSW Government will introduce a "saving grace" period for motorists who are less than 10 minutes late to their car after their parking ticket expires, but it does not apply to all situations. | | | | Most hikers take several months to cover WA's famous 1,000km Bibbulmun Track, but Perth school teacher Jono Ride managed to do it in just over two weeks, despite not setting out to break records. | | | | Imagine feeling anxious and depressed at a time in your life that is meant to be one of the most rewarding. That was Nicki Jeffery's experience after the birth of her first son. Now, a new online tool is helping expectant and new parents assess their emotional wellbeing. | | | | Police should not be criticised over their handling of the Bourke Street attacker, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says, amid revelations Hassan Khalif Shire Ali had been bailed before last Friday's attack. | | | | A regional South Australian council has begun removing about 500 trolleys from waters near its wharf, amid concerns over community safety. | | | | Scientists have voted to redefine the value of a kilogram, in what they called a landmark decision that will boost the accuracy of scientific measurements. | | | | The homeless man who confronted the Bourke Street terrorist with a trolley, prompting an online campaign to raise more than $140,000, is charged with five offences. | | | | Somewhere before Christmas, my son will get a number that will tell him if he is to get into his preferred course at uni. That number will not define him — I think after making it even this far he knows that, writes Vanessa Wiltshire. | | | | Rescuers of a tiny kitten that clawed its way up the leg of a tip worker as it escaped a garbage crusher pick a fitting name for the "little fighter" — Lucky. Not so his brothers and sisters. | | | | In the secluded town of Paradise, James Bennett finds carnage and destruction reminiscent of Victoria's Black Saturday fires — and a community with the same grit to start over. | | | | Climate scientists tell us that, by the end of the century, the map of the world will be radically redrawn by rising sea levels — and global cities are at the centre of this dramatic story. So how prepared are we? | | | | Recent polling suggests significant parts of the British public may have soured on the idea of breaking away from Europe. | | | | The Quilpie Shire, more than 1,000 kilometres west of Brisbane, has been drought declared for 13 of the past 18 years. While cattle and sheep grazing has been the traditional source of income, the discovery of dinosaur bones and megafauna has changed the landscape forever. | |  |
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