| | | | For 120 years, it was a successful mining engineering business, riding the highs and lows. But an aggressive move into a new form of technology, the solar industry, burned RCR Tomlinson and left it in administration. | | | | After sharing her story with the ABC this week, a leading school graduate who was destined to miss out on university because of her asylum seeker status says she has now been inundated with offers of support. | | | | Criminals awaiting trial could flee the country simply by asking the Home Affairs Department to deport them, using a loophole that the Commonwealth, state and territory Attorneys-General say needs to be addressed. | | | | After a four-week campaign dominated by crime, transport and Melbourne's growing pains, election day has arrived in Victoria. But almost 40 per cent of voters have had their say before today. | | | | The Victorian Government is tipped to be re-elected today, but it's under threat from the both the left and the right. This election is not a simple Labor vs Coalition contest, writes state political reporter Richard Willingham. | | | | In the 48 hours before Damian Maxfield was released from police custody to stab a sleeping stranger to death, he threatened to kill two women, had a handgun seized from his home and resisted arrest. Now the family of his victim want answers. | | | | Shifting the culture that fuels domestic violence will take generations, experts say. Until then, one strategy for stamping it out is men's behaviour change programs. But do they work? ABC News was allowed inside one to find out. | | | | Described by a judge as the "worst category of murder" and handed three life sentences earlier this month, what led Allan O'Connor to kill his ex-partner and two others? | | | | The royal commission is exposing that Commonwealth Bank bosses opted to put out the nearest spot fire and move on, rather than actually acknowledge the cascading scandals starting a towering inferno around them. | | | | Britain's Theresa May came to Brussels to leave the European Union. Meanwhile, France's Emmanuel Macron was looking for ways to further integrate the remaining 27 economies, writes Laura Tingle. | | | | Chinese President Xi Jinping's face was pasted on billboards ahead of last weekend's APEC summit in Papua New Guinea. So how did he end up getting upstaged? | | | | The League of Nations was once described as "the greatest humbug in history", but it has had a lasting impact on Australia: it helped the nation untie its British apron strings and find its foreign policy voice. | | | | A few years ago, we heard that processed meat was carcinogenic to humans, and red meat probably was too. Then it was "very hot" drinks (but not coffee specifically) — and the list of cancer-causing substances goes on. But what does it all really mean? | | | | Health professionals warn parents about the dangers of children chasing the "ideal body" through adult-style gyms and diets while turning away from traditional team sports. | | | | A Sydney court hears three more women complained about actor Craig McLachlan during the filming of ABC TV show The Doctor Blake Mysteries, including allegations of an unwanted kiss and inappropriate touching. | | | | As European Union diplomats are meeting to finalise the draft divorce agreement between Britain and the bloc, Spain demands that its say over Gibraltar's status be enshrined in the final Brexit treaty. | | | | Purchasing a property is often the single largest investment you will make, but it can be a bewildering process. Here are some things you may not know. | | | | Nine years after being tasered by police in Fremantle for helping a drunk man on the street, Robert Cunningham and Catherine Atoms win their expensive legal battle against the WA Government. | | | | A large bushfire burning in the NSW Hunter region is downgraded to advice amid easing conditions as former prime minister Tony Abbott joined fire crews battling the blaze. | | | | Monty Python's Eric Idle is responsible for some of comedy's greatest lines, but he was momentarily lost for words while accepting an honorary doctorate in Adelaide last night. | |  |
By business reporter Daniel Ziffer | |  |
By Laura Tingle | |  |
By state political reporter Richard Willingham | |  |
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