| | | | A Victorian WorkSafe inspector finished a safety visit of a Melbourne factory just minutes before a young apprentice died at the site last month. | | | | Allan Dwyer, the former general manager of Hay Shire Council, concedes there were "disparities" in book-keeping as an ABC investigation reveals the extent of his corporate credit card use for personal expenses. | | | | British Prime Minister Theresa May says Cabinet has agreed to a draft Brexit deal with the European Union, saying it is in the UK's best interests but that there will be difficult days ahead. | | | | Chinese nuclear scientists reach an important milestone in the global quest to harness energy from nuclear fusion, heating plasma in a tokomak device to a temperature more than six times hotter than the core of the sun. | | | | A young woman who had been an ASIO officer "for about five minutes" who noticed a group of young men acting unusually in a chemist late at night helped foil a Christmas bomb plot in Melbourne's CBD, the country's spy boss reveals. | | | | It happens in the US, it happens in Sydney and there are clues to the dangers of mainstreaming "Jewish" stereotypes in the anti-Semitic cartoons of 100 years ago, writes Jonathan C. Kaplan. | | | | Tiger snakes, blackouts and sleeping next to her desk weren't in the job description when 28-year-old Anita Harding took the job as sole teacher in one of Victoria's tiniest schools. But, it's not unusual for teachers to have to go above and beyond. | | | | For months, Jasmine Cavanagh would wake up in the middle of the night and mop up sewage leaking through her home. She is now in a legal fight for a better home for her kids. | | | | A $38 million Tesla battery storage facility in South Australia is on track to be up and running by May, becoming one of the state's biggest battery sites behind Jamestown's plant built by Elon Musk. | | | | The American pathologist whose angry response to the powerful gun lobby's call for "self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane" went viral says medical professionals have had enough. | | | | Irresponsible dog owners, unethical doctors, and dishonest e-commerce vendors are being punished and kept in check under a series of evolving local credit scoring systems being rolled out across China. | | | | After decades of searching, astronomers say they've finally detected compelling evidence of an alien world orbiting one of the closest and most iconic stars in our cosmic neighbourhood. | | | | When Ban-Foo and Selwyn Lemos migrated to Sydney 15 years ago they could finally do things like holding hands in public without fear. But Australia's "Yes" vote was a long way away, so they got to work. | | | | The 26-year-old security guard who was stabbed in the neck by a terrorist on Melbourne's Bourke Street last week says he tried to defend himself but there was too much blood. | | | | We spoke to hundreds of girls and they have a message for our leaders: we're sick of being ignored, writes Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen. | | | | Recruitment specialists say mining companies, desperate for workers in remote areas, are again turning to FIFO workers from the eastern states, but are unlikely to pay the sky-high wages seen in the last big boom. | | | | A Queenslander who says he found himself constantly checking for onions in his path after slipping over at Bunnings welcomes the hardware giant's new "under-the-sausage" directive. | | | | You may have heard that too much screen time in the evening is a bad for you, and it's true the blue light emitted by devices like phones and tablets can disturb your sleep. But blue light is not all bad. | | | | Papua New Guinea's Foreign Minister says the country will do all it can to ensure there are no conflicts between China and Australia during the APEC summit. | | | | A survey of some of the nation's leading retailers shows most think Amazon won't have any impact on their Christmas trading performance, but Deloitte warns they may be underestimating the retail giant. | | | | Research into some of the US's most fierce hurricanes finds climate change is already influencing their severity, and that future warming is going to make them even wetter and windier. | |  |
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