| | | | Yael Stone, the Australian star of Netflix series Orange is the New Black, claims veteran actor Geoffrey Rush exposed himself to her backstage, sent her suggestive text messages, and attempted to spy on her while she was showering. | | | | India has bowled Australia out for 243 after fighting back in the second session on day four in Perth and will require 287 runs to win. Follow all the action with our live blog. | | | | Brisbane Senior Constable Neil Punchard is stood down from official duty after being charged for allegedly leaking a domestic violence complainant's address to her former partner. | | | | A judge says it is "astonishing" a bus driver who injured six of his passengers when he crashed into the Montague Street bridge in South Melbourne failed to notice the structure. | | | | Adam Elliott and Asipeli Fine are handed two-year good behaviour bonds for dancing naked on tables during their club's end-of-season celebration, with the magistrate saying they have been through enough "public shaming". | | | | Andrew Broad resigns as assistant minister to the Deputy Prime Minister, after New Idea publishes allegations Mr Broad used a website to meet women while he was away on work trips. | | | | A woman wanted by the FBI in the United States over a fatal hit-and-run tells an Adelaide court that she is "still languishing in prison" eight months after her arrest. | | | | Despite a sunny forecast, Sydney beachgoers find themselves covered in a thick sea fog that's likely to hang around the popular tourist spots through the day. | | | | Donald Trump slams NBC's sketch-comedy show as a "Democratic spin machine" and says the "real scandal" is the network's hour-by-hour "one-sided coverage". | | | | Chris Dawson is soon to be released from a western Sydney prison almost two weeks after being charged with the murder of his wife Lyn Dawson. | | | | Qantas, Virgin Australia, Jetstar and Tigerair are reviewing their refund policies after an ACCC investigation reveals they refused to offer refunds even if a flight was cancelled or there were significant delays. | | | | The Government's planned $37 billion in surpluses over the next few years rely on a lot of pretty optimistic assumptions, but its promise to hand back more than $9 billion through yet-to-be-announced policies will be baked in. | | | | A fishing party of four is to believed to have spent up to 16 hours floating at sea after their boat capsized in turbulent Top End waters. | | | | Russia is having trouble cracking down on rap music, which is seen as a threat to the country's conservative culture. Now President Vladimir Putin has proposed the Kremlin must step in and "take control". | | | | A large swathe of Western Australia is shaken by a magnitude-5.9 earthquake late on Sunday night — the second-largest to hit in Australia in 20 years — and seismologists say it had the potential to cause "significant" damage. | | | | A coroner finds the foundation of a monument that fell and killed three-year-old Indy Lee Hendersen was "wholly inadequate", and recommends new standards for their construction. | | | | The supermarket chain loses a bid to secure an exemption from retail legislation that would have allowed its staff to stock shelves during the early hours of Christmas Day, with the industrial umpire citing a lack of evidence of "exceptional circumstances". | | | | A jury in Brisbane finds former CFMEU Queensland president Dave Hanna guilty of deliberately destroying documents sought by the trade union royal commission. | | | | The Morrison Government is going over the top in trying to smother Bill Shorten and the Labor national conference, but at the end of day one, the Government was looking desperate while the Opposition was looking determined, writes Michelle Grattan. | | | | The life-sized warriors, created in the third century BC and uncovered by farmers in Shaanxi province in 1974, will be the centrepiece of a major exhibition of precious works of art and design at the National Gallery of Victoria next winter. | | | | Ian Dennis Jones is found not guilty of murder after he killed his drinking partner, 41-year-old mother-of-three Tanya Beattie, in WA's South West because he thought she was a member of a bikie gang. | | | | Ross Johnston had received permission only to remodel the two-storey house, designed by Austrian architect Richard Neutra in the 1930s, but instead he knocked everything down. | | | | Colin Kroll, a 34-year-old tech executive who co-founded the HQ Trivia app, has died. | | | | Royce Wells's family has lived in the same house for more than 100 years, but earlier this year the 76-year-old looked set to be evicted from his own property by the South Australian Government. Now his future is secure. | |  |
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By Michelle Grattan | |  |
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