| | | | A senior Victorian Liberal MP is calling for a "root-and-branch review" of the party after its crushing election loss, as a federal counterpart apologises over the impact Malcolm Turnbull's axing had on the result. | | | | Victorians have "rejected the low road of fear and division" by voting Labor back into government, Premier Daniel Andrews says, as the Liberal-National Opposition wonders where it all went wrong in a state election some describe as a bloodbath. | | | | Each year hundreds of thousands of Chinese students flock to Australia to study, lured by promises of enhanced career prospects. They spend tens of thousands of dollars on what is sold to them as a life changing experience — but are they getting what they pay for? | | | | Indigenous kids make the life-altering journey from their communities to Australia's biggest cities to attend boarding school, but there are serious questions around the level of support the students are offered and how one major education fund is reporting dropout rates. | | | | Madrid backs down over repeated threats to veto Brexit over Gibraltar question, with EU officials working overnight to broker a satisfactory outcome for Madrid. | | | | Since late August the Australian Securities Exchange has been slipping and is now down 10 per cent, the market's first correction since 2015. At the same time Wall Street has re-entered correction territory, where it has been most of the year. | | | | To the casual observer it seems the number of whales migrating along Australia's east coast is increasing, but even spotters and charter boat operators are seeing the surge. | | | | Ian Terrey knows he does not "look human" but he does not care and is still here, 20 years after being told he had three months to live. | | | | From teaching your dog to wear sunglasses to giving them a foot spa, there are plenty of things that will keep your best friend comfortable over summer. | | | | Ever wanted to be a flower farmer? With demand for Australian natives booming at home and abroad, the industry is looking for more growers to enter the market. | | | | The rise of the "incels" and emergence of strong male politicians with little respect for the rule of law are part of a broader men's movement motivating new forms of far-right violence that steer dangerously close to the violence we call terrorism, writes Joshua Roose. | | | | 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? | | | | 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. | | | | In response to a spate of scooter crimes in London — including bag snatching and mobile phone theft — Scotland Yard releases a video showing officers shunting riders off their bikes, even at high speed, in a bid to deter would-be criminals. | | | | It's that time of year when blue-tongued lizards are out and about, and while they're spotted in many backyards across south-eastern Australia, they have some traits you may not be aware of. | | | | A carpenter offered to help a 19-year-old woman who got into a car crash. He then allegedly made sexual advances and followed her before indecently assaulting her. | | | | A man is killed and another critically injured after a helicopter crashes into a riverbed about 125 kilometres north-east of Alice Springs. | | | | As President Emmanuel Macron's popularity continues to plummet, French protesters take to the streets over rising fuel costs, an issue that taps into broader disquiet about the direction of the Fifth Republic. | | | | In the 48 hours before Damian Maxfield was released from custody and stabbed 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 wants answers. | | | | 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? | | | | 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. | |  |
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