| | | | Julia Banks, the only Coalition MP to have won her seat off Labor at the last election, says she is unable to continue serving the Parliament with a Liberal Party that "has changed, largely due to the actions of the reactionary and regressive right wing". Follow live. | | | | Scott Morrison vows to deliver a surplus budget in April before sending Australians to the polls for a federal election, but his hold on power has been threatened even more with a Liberal backbencher moving to the crossbench. | | | | Belle Gibson, who built a social media empire and launched a cookbook and app on the back of claims to have cured her brain cancer, also made false claims about donating a large portion of her profits to charities and to the family of a boy with an inoperable brain tumour. | | | | Fay Sherret was killed by a slow-growing bacteria that entered her body as she had a routine heart valve replacement procedure. A cooler in the operating theatre was infected and the deadly bacteria was airborne. Now, her daughter is working to uncover what authorities knew about the risks. | | | | Witnesses took photographs of a live export ship bound for Pakistan and the Middle East rocking from side to side before authorities intervened. | | | | High-profile Labor MP Emma Husar backflips on a promise not to contest the next federal election after it emerges the party has already chosen her replacement. | | | | The Victorian Electoral Commission is continuing its re-checking today, meaning it is unlikely there will be any substantive updates to the count. But from tomorrow, they are prioritising postal and absentee votes in close seats. | | | | The official report claims the effects of climate change will harm human health, damage infrastructure, limit water availability, alter coastlines and increase costs in various industries unless greenhouse gas emissions are curbed. | | | | Outgoing Republican congresswoman Mia Love lashes out at Donald Trump and her party and warns she can now voice, "exactly what is on my mind". | | | | InSight will spend 24 months — about one Martian year — using seismic monitoring and underground temperature readings to unlock mysteries about how Mars formed and, by extension, the origins of the Earth and other rocky planets. | | | | Although Australia has some of the world's most venomous snakes, biggest sharks and dangerous crocodiles, none of these are our deadliest animals. | | | | A flight that overshot its destination by almost 50 kilometres because the pilot fell asleep would have crashed if the operator did not wake up in time, an aviation expert says. | | | | Blake Davis, who is accused of murdering rapper Jett McKee with a samurai sword on a street in Sydney's inner-west last year, is granted bail in the NSW Supreme Court where a judge describes the case to keep him behind bars as "pathetic". | | | | Authorities tell Sydneysiders to reconsider their commutes tomorrow morning with up to 200mm of rain expected to be dumped on parts of the city, causing flash flooding and chaos on roads. | | | | Police are hunting a man who allegedly assaulted his pregnant partner before abducting a 10-month-old baby and fleeing in a car, evading police in a high-speed pursuit along a freeway in Melbourne's south-east. | | | | Chinese officials announced they had signed "new agreements" with several Pacific Island nations at the APEC summit, but they refused to answer even basic questions about what was in them. Now the details of those deals are starting to seep out. | | | | Scientists are undertaking the largest and most complicated coral regeneration attempt ever attempted — here is what it means for the future of the Great Barrier Reef. | | | | The agents reportedly quizzed the actor on whether he had plans to confront the US President at any upcoming rallies, and about the last time he fired a gun. | | | | An ABC News investigation into breast implant-related cancer exposes serious flaws in the way the Therapeutic Goods Administration detected an emerging problem with textured breast implants. | | | | Temperature records are being broken across the central and northern parts of Queensland as an "extreme heatwave" creates "trying conditions" for fire crews battling large bushfires with 1,500 people now displaced. | |  |
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