| | | | A parliamentary committee will today confront former ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie and former chairman Justin Milne about allegations of political interference in the public broadcaster, as the pair step up their attacks on each other in written submissions to the inquiry. | | | | The US President's former longtime personal lawyer admits making false statements to a US congressional committee investigating the Trump campaign's collusion with Russia. | | | | Research at a Queensland university has discovered the geological secret behind a rare earth mineral, critical to building high-tech products essential for future industries. | | | | Indonesia's electronic information laws are in the spotlight after Baiq Nuril was jailed for six months for defamation after she recorded evidence of her principal sexually harassing her. | | | | Thousands of people are forced from their homes as more than 100 bushfires rage across Queensland, and the Premier says there will be days of intense weather to come. | | | | The growth in renewable generation is now so rapid it has almost replaced the capacity of the closed Hazelwood power station and now threatens a collapse of generators' margins, a new report finds. | | | | Rio Tinto, BHP and Fortescue Metals Group have all announced major new mining projects, but don't start comparing it to the mining boom of 2004–12. We will likely never see an economic explosion of that magnitude again, writes Kathryn Diss.. | | | | With their 272-satellite plan, LinkSure Network says it can bridge the digital divide and offer free internet that spans the entire globe — with the first satellite to launch next year. | | | | The US President cancels the sit-down with Vladimir Putin via Twitter from aboard Air Force One, just an hour after saying it was "a very good time to have the meeting". | | | | A trail-blazing outback car trip in 1936 by one of Australia's richest families is considered the first non-Indigenous holiday to Uluru, but also a "strange desert quest", unheard of at the time. | | | | A Sydney man accused of spying on behalf of Qatar and detained in the Middle East for over a year has made an emotional plea from jail for Prime Minister Scott Morrison to help him return to Australia. | | | | A massive survey carried out every four years has found that many Australians continue to explain away women's experience of sexism, violence and abuse, deny there is a problem, and shift the blame away from men. | | | | Antarctic aviation has come a long way since an Aussie adventurer and American pilot made the first powered flight above the frozen continent. | | | | A shortage of underwear and problems with rabbits, ducks and cockatoos are just some of the issues facing authorities at Tasmania's Risdon Prison, a new report finds. | | | | China's science and technology ministry orders a halt to the condemned work of researcher He Jiankui, after the associate professor claimed to be responsible for the birth of two gene-edited babies. | | | | For an Australian team tiptoeing the line between necessary aggression and heightened public expectations, the sometimes prickly Virat Kohli and his Indian teammates will present a testing examination of the home side's post-Cape Town manners, writes Richard Hinds. | | | | Misbehaving child? Toddler tantrum? Maybe you need to give the world's latest cultural icon — the terrifying demon-like deity specialising in scaring badly behaved children known as the Namahage — a call. | | | | Gjermund Roesholt says he was staying in a remote part of Canada's wilderness with his partner and 10-month-old daughter when he shot a grizzly bear that charged as he was laying traps. He then returned home and made a tragic discovery. | | | | A girl abused by Perth swimming school teacher Craig Dvorak continues to suffer a range of conditions including anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts stemming from the encounters, a court hears. | | | | The Ukrainian president urges NATO to deploy naval ships to the Sea of Azov amid a standoff with Russia, a statement sharply criticised by the Kremlin as a provocation aimed at further inflaming tensions. | | | | A man who was the target of a covert police operation, similar to the one used to catch Daniel Morcombe's murderer in Queensland, is found guilty of stabbing a woman to death in Perth after a night of drinking and sex. | | | | Knickers the giant steer has become a global internet sensation, but some have called #FakeMoos about the massive bovine from Western Australia. Standing in his field, I can assure you he is absolutely huge. | |  |
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