| | | | Australian Workers Union wants Senator Michaelia Cash's former chief of staff, Ben Davies, in court to give evidence about the office tipping off media about Australian Federal Police raids. | | | | Virtually every politically relevant indicator points to the Democrats winning a majority of seats in the US House of Representatives next week, but the Republicans have a powerful card in their hand, writes Simon Jackman. | | | | A truck driver is expected to be charged over a head-on crash in Victoria's north-east which killed a woman and a boy, and left a man, a baby and a toddler with critical injuries. | | | | After an outage affecting eftpos and ATMs dragged into the weekend across most states, Telstra now says the issue has been resolved, and announces it will discuss compensation with its business customers on a "case-by-case basis". | | | | A woman who escaped a violent partner four years ago still fears being found, so she exercises extreme caution on social media to stay hidden. | | | | An exhibition by dissident Chinese-Australian artist Badiucao in Hong Kong is cancelled, following alleged threats made by Chinese authorities. | | | | A wheelchair athlete who dragged himself through Luton Airport after his self-propelling chair was left behind on a flight is now suing the airport, saying offers from staff to push him on an assisted chair removed his independence. | | | | Oil sanctions against Iran will come into effect on Monday and will target the Middle Eastern country's largest source of revenue in the most punishing action taken since the Trump administration withdrew from the 2015 nuclear agreement in May. | | | | US President Donald Trump takes the unusual step of using a Game-of-Thrones-inspired meme to announce the restoration of oil sanctions for Iran, and HBO is not amused. | | | | What makes a country a country? Things are changing — war, technology and climate change are challenging principles of nationhood. | | | | Child abuse doesn't automatically stop once someone turns 18. Sarah is one of tens of thousands of Australian adults whose childhood abuse continued into their adult lives. Now, she's broken free and hopes others can follow her lead. | | | | The last automatic start in the Melbourne Cup goes to — you guessed it — an international raider in A Prince of Arran from England, who wins the Hotham Handicap on Derby Day. | | | | Rescue crews work to free a whale calf trapped in a shark net off Queensland's Gold Coast as its distressed mother swims nearby. It's the second whale calf to be trapped off the area in a month and experts say it highlights the risk nets pose to marine populations. | | | | According to police, the actor claimed he had a family member holding a parking spot outside his New York City home as he attempted to park his black Cadillac Escalade, when a man driving a black Saab station wagon pulled up and took it. | | | | An awful lot of men will need to use a sanitary bin in their lifetime, but far too many find themselves caught short through a lack of facilities, with potentially serious mental health consequences. | | | | Fights are breaking out over fish supplies as demand grows in developing countries and larger countries use military force to protect dwindling resources. | | | | When Jimi Hendrix arrived in New York in January 1968 to start work on Electric Ladyland, he had a major problem. African-Americans had taken to the streets and many were asking whose side he was on. | | | | For the first time ever, a one-day international in Australia won't be viewable on free-to-air television — and media experts are predicting a backlash when cricket fans try to tune in. | | | | Cats are often painted as lazy, disloyal, and unproductive creatures, but for a handful of towns in east Asia, cats are clawing in millions and rejuvenating struggling backwaters. | | | | The body of a shark attack victim washing ashore, the discovery of hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and a mass bushfire evacuation are just some of the incidents handled by volunteer rangers at Preston Beach south of Perth. | | | | Gary Nunn had long accepted he didn't like getting up early. But with neuro linguistic programming, he found he could change his life through repetition and the right words. | | | | Spring is in the air in Tasmania's remote South-West, where the highly endangered orange-bellied parrot is starting to arrive. | |  |
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