| | | | The Queensland fire threat forces Campwin Beach residents near Mackay to evacuate overnight, while residents at Gracemere, south of Rockhampton, are being allowed to return home after yesterday's catastrophic fire conditions. | | | | The Federal Government is about to introduce laws allowing officers from the Australian Secret Intelligence Service to use "reasonable force" during overseas missions. | | | | Four homes on this leafy Sydney street were severely damaged by floods, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage — but one discovery gave some of them reason to smile. | | | | Parts of central Queensland are on fire and New South Wales is flooding. It's the second time in a fortnight things have gone awry and it's all linked. | | | | Malka Leifer moved to Israel after her former students levelled allegations against her, and her campaigners are trying to keep her there. | | | | Donors to Melbourne's Lost Dogs Home threaten to cut the institution out of their wills, as concerns grow about the management of the charity. | | | | Greens leader Richard Di Natale slams conservative crossbench and Government senators prompting three of them, including Barry O'Sullivan (pictured), to walk out of the Senate, saying their behaviour is repeatedly "offensive and harmful". | | | | At a time when the rules-based trading system is being shredded and the Paris Agreement risks unravelling, it is vital that the G20 meeting between the two superpowers is constructive, writes Tony Walker. | | | | As busy as we are at work, it doesn't take that much time to make someone feel respected. It's often as simple as saying "hello", or putting down your phone and looking at someone when they are talking to you. | | | | It's proven to reduce your risk of heart disease and boost your mental health, but walking is also boosting local economies. Here's how. | | | | Scientists discover birds toying with a party balloon and plastic bottle, with a soft drink can spotted 1,000 metres down on the ocean floor — sights described by researchers as "heartbreaking". | | | | The future of the Overland train between Adelaide and Melbourne is on shaky ground with the South Australian Government axing any future funding for the service. | | | | Taxi drivers in NSW, Victoria, Queensland and WA will sue Uber in what may be "the largest" class action in Australian history. | | | | The battle for the traditionally blue-ribbon seat of Hawthorn is going down to the wire, with Victorian Liberal frontbencher and leadership contender John Pesutto trailing his Labor rival by just 47 votes. | | | | First it was fodder, now Victorian-grown Christmas trees are being trucked north to alleviate a shortage in drought-stricken states. | | | | Imagine a pair of clocks that tick in almost perfect unison, 500 trillion times every second. Well, here they are — and they could help us learn more about the earth's interior and elusive dark matter. | | | | Shark, who gigged for years in her 20s before catching a break in 2016, says it is "insane" that she has picked up Best Pop Release for the second year in a row. | | | | A Nepalese official says Katie Rachel Graham was going door-to-door in an attempt to convince people to join her religion, "which is strictly prohibited under our laws". | | | | The elusive and unique platypus is in trouble, with its numbers dropping by a third in the past 200 years. Scientists are now calling for their protection status to be elevated and a particular fishing trap to be banned. | | | | Hassan Al Kontar was unable to board a flight from Kuala Lumpur International Airport after his tourist visa expired in March — but he couldn't go back to his homeland because he refused to serve in the military. | | | | National company Nederlandse Spoorwegen apologised for its role in the deportations in 2005 but is now investigating how it can pay individual reparations. | | | | The US Forest Service releases a video of the moment a gender reveal party set fire to the Coronado National Forest, costing millions of dollars in damages. | |  |
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