| | | | Authorities warn residents in Gracemere, south of Rockhampton, to evacuate immediately as a fast-moving fire heads towards the region. Catastrophic fire conditions are now expected to continue well in to the night. Follow our live blog for updates. | | | | A morning downpour causes havoc in the Harbour City, with roads underwater and airport runways closed as the Bureau of Meteorology warns conditions could intensify in the evening — this is what you need to know about Sydney's wild weather. | | | | The windows and walls on part of an office building in Sydney's north are blown off and tossed aside as a severe storm lashes the Harbour City, closing major roads and inundating homes with water. | | | | Parts of central Queensland are on fire and New South Wales is flooding. It's the second time in a fortnight things have gone awry and it's all linked. | | | | Greens leader Richard Di Natale slams conservative crossbench and Government senators prompting three of them, including Barry O'Sullivan (pictured), to walk out of the Senate, saying their behaviour is repeatedly "offensive and harmful". | | | | Taxi drivers in NSW, Victoria, Queensland and WA will sue Uber in what may be "the largest" class action in Australian history. | | | | Foreign investors forced to sell properties because they did not adhere to tougher laws aimed at foreign investment into residential real estate, may have pocketed capital gains, according to evidence given to a parliamentary hearing. | | | | The resignation of Julia Banks from the Government benches not only plunges the Morrison Government further into minority, it puts a giant spotlight onto its gender issue, writes Patricia Karvelas. | | | | Australia's most devastating bushfires, like the ones burning across Queensland, fuel their own fury by creating apocalyptic thunderstorm clouds that whip up weather that's the stuff of nightmares. | | | | Simon Katich and Michael Clarke are at loggerheads again, as the former Test players adopt opposing views over the future direction of the Australian men's team. | | | | It took just an hour for a mattress lit in a cell at Greenough Regional Prison to explode into a full-blown riot involving dozens of male prisoners armed with power tools descending on female inmates and culminating in the escape of 10 dangerous men. | | | | The idea of living a nomadic, off-grid lifestyle where you hunt and forage for food when you're hungry, sleep when you're tired and wake up with the sun might seem like a life full of freedom and clarity. But the reality is far less romantic. | | | | Despite being advised that the Cullen Group has defaulted on a $75,000 debt, the Queensland Building and Construction Commission allows the company to keep trading, leading to one of the state's biggest building industry collapses. | | | | A musterer thought at first he was dreaming when he reached down and grabbed the large snake that had crawled into bed with him — until he felt the blood running down his leg and realised he'd been bitten. | | | | Human rights group Survival International calls for attempts to retrieve the body of missionary John Chau — who was killed while attempting to preach to people on North Sentinel Island — to be called off, saying the tribe could be wiped out by outside disease. | | | | Organisers of a long-running South Sudanese basketball tournament in Melbourne claim fear-mongering about African crime gangs has forced them to cancel their annual summer event. | | | | ANZ's Shayne Elliott says the bank's executive bonus targets were too focused on financial goals at the expense of customer outcomes and risk management, but that there needs to be some room for sales incentives for staff. | | | | The US President warns the White House is "now looking at cutting all GM subsidies" in the wake of the company announcing it is closing five car factories and laying off 14,000 workers. | | | | Lion Air pilots struggled to maintain control of their Boeing jet as an automatic safety system repeatedly pushed the plane's nose down, according to a draft of a preliminary report into last month's deadly crash. | | | | Google is facing a growing staff revolt, including in its Australian office, over plans to build a censored search engine for the Chinese market. | | | | John Bolton says he has read a transcript of an audio recording of the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashsoggi and he "wouldn't learn anything more" by listening to the tape personally. | |  |
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