| | | | Students defy the Prime Minister's calls to stay in school and instead gather in their thousands to protest against inaction on climate change. But the Federal Government says all they're learning how to do is "join the dole queue". | | | | After nine months of damning evidence of misconduct and malpractice, the final fortnight of hearings neatly encapsulated the banking royal commission, especially the starkly contrasting evidence of NAB's CEO and chairman. | | | | Residents in the path of a large fire which "poses a threat to all lives directly in its path" in north Queensland are being urged to seek shelter immediately as it is too late to evacuate. | | | | Donald Trump's former lawyer has given a new version of events on business dealings with Russia. The question now is what this means for the US President himself. | | | | A seismic event triggers readings in sensors from Africa to New Zealand to Canada, but seemingly is not felt by a single person. | | | | Research at a Queensland university has discovered the geological secret behind a rare earth mineral, critical to building high-tech products essential for future industries. | | | | After years of steadily gaining weight, Keeley Favell looked nine months' pregnant, but when her doctor sent her to get a pregnancy ultrasound they found a "medical alien" rather than a baby. | | | | Daniel Holdom, who killed his ex-girlfriend and her daughter before dumping the latter's body in a suitcase on the SA border, surprises a Sydney court by trying to change his guilty plea on the day of his sentencing. | | | | Tania Klemke was killed by her dog Simba while trying to protect a visitor from the animal, urging the man to lock himself inside a room, the ACT coroner finds. | | | | The Australian tech industry comes out swinging, with leaders warning a parliamentary committee that the Government's proposed encryption bill could have dire consequences including job losses and a reduction in exports. | | | | The activist who started the Me Too movement over a decade ago says it has been misrepresented as a witch hunt out to start a gender war, but she wants to remind people why it started so it can remain a "movement" and not just a "moment" in history. | | | | The latest greenhouse gas report shows a 1.3 per cent increase on the previous quarter, but Environment Minister Melissa Price says Australia is still on track to reduce emissions by 26-28 per cent. | | | | Yet another spate of penguin killings has Tasmanian authorities asking the public for help, after 30 small birds were found dead — the third such incident in six months. | | | | A senior Comancheros bikie, who previously had a career as a male model, is warned he will not have a future in the modelling industry "if he keeps smashing glasses on his forehead" during sentencing for his part in a strip club brawl. | | | | The remains of one of the Tuskegee Airmen — an all-black World War II US fighter squadron that became and remains a powerful national symbol for civil rights — have been identified for the first time, the Pentagon says. | | | | When Labor tried have the Parliament condemn the Government this week, the four women of the crossbench abstained. In doing so they gave Scott Morrison salve for a black eye inflicted earlier by their newest member, and banked some credit for use later on, writes Michelle Grattan. | | | | Myer's board directors manage to avoid being thrown out by shareholders despite a "second strike" against the company's remuneration report amid declining sales and a rocky share price. | | | | Justin Milne tells a Senate committee he was only expressing a personal view, not offering a directive, when he told management it should "get rid of" journalist Emma Alberici. | | | | Passenger Traci Redford says a Southwest Airlines employee laughed at her daughter's name — pronounced "Ahb-sih-dee" — while they were pre-boarding a plane, and shared a picture of her boarding pass online. | | | | A trail-blazing outback car trip in 1936 by one of Australia's richest families is considered the first non-Indigenous holiday to Uluru, something unheard of at the time. | |  |
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