| | | | After spending nearly two decades behind bars for the killing of senior AFP officer Colin Winchester in a suburban Canberra street in 1989, former public servant David Eastman — now aged in his 70s — is cleared of the murder. | | | | The Sentinelese people are known to attack outsiders who try to visit, and have reportedly killed a Christian American missionary. Here's how these "uncontacted peoples" have stayed away from modern progress. | | | | The NSW Rural Fire Services issues emergency warnings for two out-of-control blazes within 50km of each other in the Hunter — one at Salt Ash, where properties are threatened, and another near Kurri Kurri. | | | | Under current laws, the Federal Government can only strip citizenship from people who have been sentenced to at least six years' jail, but Scott Morrison will introduce legislation so citizenship can be taken from anyone convicted of terrorism offences. | | | | With Donald Trump firing his own attorney-general, we're much further down this particular rabbit hole than the authors of the law ever envisioned, writes Lucia Osborne-Crowley. | | | | "Very concerned" health officials urge the elderly, children and people with breathing conditions to stay inside as a 500-kilometre dust storm, whipped up by wind travelling across drought-ravaged parts of the state, settles on the city. | | | | It has been a crazy few days of weather all over the country with extreme cold, blazing heat, destructive winds and catastrophic fire danger. | | | | The Victorians Greens say they have received a rape allegation against one of their candidates, who is yet to be named, but are taking the complaint seriously. | | | | Thousands of public schools are receiving less public funding than similar private schools, an ABC News investigation has found. See what our database reveals about your school. | | | | The month-long Sheffield Shield showcase has produced its winners, and Australia's squad to face India is set, but on the eve of a Test summer like no other, the chosen few face a battle to become more than just stop-gaps, writes Dean Bilton | | | | ASIC chairman James Shipton is mounting a defence of the corporate regulator's professionalism, denying cosy ties with the big banks. Follow out blog for updates. | | | | A Hawaiian man's three years of sailing around the Queensland coast came to an abrupt end when his catamaran took on water and capsized in "just under a minute" in waters off Mackay. He then spent a long lonely night waiting to be rescued. | | | | A 26-year-old Norwegian man is reportedly charged with sexual crimes involving more than 300 boys and young men. | | | | Timor-Leste buys Shell's stake in the rich Greater Sunrise oil and gas fields as it presses ahead with its contentious plan to pipe the natural resources to its south coast for processing. | | | | Singaporean businessman Ah Ping Ban will spend at least 20 years in jail for murdering his wife, Annabelle Chen, and dumping her body in a suitcase in Perth's Swan River — a crime his daughter, Tiffany Wan, helped cover up. | | | | It's no-one's favourite pastime, but there is evidence government paperwork and taxes are causing great distress for small businesses owners across the country, and some are not coping. | | | | The true extent of the deadly lung disease affecting stonemasons who cut engineered stone kitchen benchtops is hidden and the entire workforce should be urgently medically tested, according to an international expert. | | | | Beziers' far-right mayor describes the case as an "inquisition in petticoats" as a Montpellier court declares the TGV poster was designed to be provocative after outraged feminist groups launched a legal bid. | | | | The convicted heroin trafficker sets foot in Australia for the first time in 13 years, landing in her home town of Newcastle after her release from prison in Indonesia. | | | | A South Australian police officer who drew his handgun and took several shots to put down an injured kangaroo is criticised online, but police say officers have the authority to kill injured animals in distress. | |  |
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By state political reporter Richard Willingham | |  |
By Lucia Osborne-Crowley | |  |
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