| | | | Australia's openers lay a solid foundation as the maligned batting line-up gets off to a strong start on day one of the second Test in Perth. Follow the action as it happens in our live blog. | | | | Treasury officials say the Government is spending $4 million more per day than the revenue it makes and is borrowing to cover day-to-day operational costs such as public servants' wages and to cover interest on previous borrowings. | | | | Australians holding Swiss bank accounts are being monitored by the Tax Office for the first time, with transactions by certain high-wealth individuals a special focus. | | | | Tropical Cyclone Owen is the first for the Australian summer and he is starting the season with a bang. | | | | A man who stabbed a woman to death in a Brisbane hotel room in 2014 after meeting her through an arranged marriage website is sentenced to life in prison. | | | | In a year where there seemed to be quite a bit of bad news, the world searched for "good" more than ever before. | | | | Ashlee Carey never thought she would fall prey to a scam, until she was contacted by tricksters claiming to be from the ATO who told her she would go to jail if she did not pay them $5,000. Lucky for her, a cashier stepped in. | | | | Crown prosecutor Craig Everson tells a Sydney court that Chris Dawson, subject of the popular Teacher's Pet podcast, threatened his wife during marriage counselling before she disappeared. | | | | Michael Cohen's sentencing is just one of a series that will cascade over the next couple of months, leading to former Trump associates doing time for lying and cheating, writes Zoe Daniel. | | | | Teacher error and "significant process failures" are being blamed, after some final year students at an elite Melbourne school were not taught the complete curriculum in a subject. | | | | The state-run Barangaroo Delivery Authority broke its agreement to preserve the picture-perfect views of the Opera House and Harbour bridge from James Packer's luxury hotel and casino and a nearby Lendlease development, a court rules. | | | | Miss USA apologises for making comments about her fellow Miss Universe contestants' English language skills, admitting what she said could have been "perceived as not respectful" after people described the quotes as racist. | | | | A Southwest Airlines flight bound for Dallas is forced to return to Seattle when a heart, from which a valve was to be used in a transplant, is accidentally left onboard. | | | | Australian defence force veterans are earning tens of thousands of US dollars a month in the United Arab Emirates advising troops fighting in a bloody Middle East conflict dogged by allegations of war crimes and indiscriminate civilian casualties. | | | | After being accused of trying to "extinguish" the rights of "ordinary people", a Tasmanian property owner defends his bid to close a public dam access road on his land, saying he and his wife are dealing with late-night hooning, illegal hunting and having piles of human excrement left in buildings. | | | | A supersonic test flight takes Richard Branson's space tourism company closer to turning the long-delayed dream of commercial space tourism into reality, with the rocket climbing to an altitude of more than 80 kilometres. | | | | With an overwhelming expectation of Labor victory at the next election, "union bred, fed and led" Bill Shorten, as Scott Morrison likes to call him, needs to make it clear how he would work with the union movement and where his industrial relations policies lie, writes Michelle Grattan. | | | | An armoured truck spills cash across a New Jersey highway, leading to two crashes as drivers "went a little bit crazy," stopping their cars and scrambling to grab the money. | | | | Mining firm Adani is urging the Federal Court to throw out a legal challenge to its Queensland coal mine by five traditional owners, telling the court they have no money to pay costs if the court decision goes against them. | | | | Delivery of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan has been secured with state and federal governments agreeing to terms about how environmental water will be returned to rivers. | | | | They're not triplets, and none of them are twins, but these three brothers are all receiving their grade 12 results simultaneously, just two years after arriving in Australia. | |  |
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