| | | | Roads are underwater, two of the airport's runways are closed, the power is out in some areas and the light rail has been cut between Dulwich Hill and Central — this is what you need to know about Sydney's wild weather. | | | | The NSW State Emergency Service receives more than 150 calls for help and makes six flood rescues as some roads in the Harbour City become surging streams of water amid a downpour. | | | | Liberal defector Julia Banks says the treatment of women in Parliament is "years behind" the corporate sector, yet Labor and the Coalition deny this. | | | | The 2019 parliamentary sitting week schedule means Parliament will sit for just 13 days before the federal budget in April, drawing sharp criticism from Opposition Leader Bill Shorten. | | | | A migration agent and lawyer submitted false documents to help a colleague gain permanent residency in Australia, the Federal Court hears. | | | | The UN's 2018 Emissions Gap Report sounds yet another dire warning for global policy makers, signalling efforts to combat catastrophic climate change need to be increased significantly. | | | | A growing number of tech-savvy Chinese millennials are jumping onto the buy-now-pay-later bandwagon — but experts also warn against illegal providers who ask for "nudie selfies" as collateral for the loans. | | | | More than a dozen heat records are smashed across north Queensland and an extreme fire danger warning also issued for the Capricornia region for Wednesday, with the scorching weather to continue across the state into the weekend. | | | | After being 'discovered' on YouTube — and initially dismissing the invitation as a joke — a school choir from northern NSW has impressed a crowd at one of the world's most prestigious performance spaces. | | | | Despite promising to be more open and transparent after Facebook came under fire for data breaches, CEO Mark Zuckerberg refuses to attend a UK parliamentary grand committee. | | | | For some, the answer to whether Bali Nine member Renae Lawrence should serve time in an Australian jail if found guilty of a car theft in NSW is a simple, emphatic yes. But the legal process for establishing whether she should is far more complex, writes Elyse Methven. | | | | The federal Greens leader said it was important he condemn the treatment of women after accusing Barry O'Sullivan of throwing "sexist filth" at Sarah Hanson-Young. | | | | For the past month, a church in the Netherlands has been worshipping continuously in an effort to protect an Armenian refugee family that is facing deportation from the country. | | | | Fay Sherret was killed by a slow-growing bacteria that entered her body as she had a routine heart valve replacement procedure. A cooler in the operating theatre was infected and the deadly bacteria was airborne. Now, her daughter is working to uncover what authorities knew about the risks. | | | | One of WA's biggest mining companies is at the forefront the conversation around LGBTI inclusion, admitting the sector is not the beacon of diversity it should be. | | | | A Perth woman who died after losing her spleen and suffering a heart attack following weight loss surgery may not have been a suitable candidate for the procedure, an inquest hears. | | | | Finn Stannard, a Year 12 student at St Ignatius College Riverview, in Sydney, tells 7.30 he came out during school assembly for his "younger self". He says the love and support of his family and boyfriend helped give him the courage to make the speech. | | | | Belle Gibson, who built a social media empire and launched a cookbook and app on the back of claims to have cured her brain cancer, also made false claims about donating a large portion of her profits to charities and to the family of a boy with an inoperable brain tumour. | | | | Witnesses took photographs of a live export ship bound for Pakistan and the Middle East rocking from side to side before authorities intervened. | |  |
By Elyse Methven | |  |
By Pacific affairs reporter Stephen Dziedzic | |  |
By Kieran Mitchell, Adrian Lister, Alan Cooper and Chris Turney | |  |
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