| | | | The barrister at the centre of one of the biggest legal scandals in Victoria's history explains in a 2015 letter why she became a police informer against some of Melbourne's most notorious underworld identities. | | | | For the first time, a woman is awarded the highest honour in global football, only to have her moment overshadowed by a French DJ, whose attempted joke sparks a swift and fierce backlash. | | | | Livestock exporters have announced that they will cease exporting live sheep for three months next year. | | | | The Northern Territory's water provider remains mystified as to how Bathurst Island, population 1,800, uses 1,300 litres of water per person per day. | | | | A few things stand out when you look at the top YouTube earners of 2018: the list is dominated by men, half of them are gamers, and the top earner is a 7-year-old who reviews children's toys. | | | | The Government wants new laws to force technology companies to let police access encrypted messages. Technology companies, human rights groups, lawyers and others aren't happy. And no-one quite knows how this will play out. | | | | The three men, who were seen with a gun, entered a building on Drummond Street in Carlton shortly before 3:00pm. A short time later police locked down Carlton Primary School before pick-up, leaving parents and students still inside. | | | | The alleged mastermind of a massive tax fraud, Phillip Whiteman, says he can't recall the details of his business activities and doesn't know who owns the house he occupies in the plush bayside suburb of Port Melbourne. | | | | Counterterrorism police arrest 39-year-old Arsalan Khawaja, the brother of Test cricket star Usman Khawaja, over an alleged terror hit list that contained plans to kill Malcolm Turnbull and Julie Bishop and led to the wrongful imprisonment of a UNSW employee. | | | | A 21-year-old Sunshine Coast surf coach with a "heart of gold" who was left in a critical condition with a severe brain injury after a scooter crash in Bali dies in Brisbane. | | | | The focus of Telstra investor day this year is its new 5G mobile network. Sure it's fast, but will phone users notice the difference? | | | | Authorities are urging travellers to not be complacent when driving through remote parts of Western Australia, after a fourth person died in the state's outback in the past two months. | | | | Sully, a specially trained two-year-old labrador, will travel with his late owner on his final journey back to Texas. | | | | Sir David Attenborough warns delegates from 200 countries the "collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon" unless urgent action is taken against global warming. | | | | Car salesmen are misrepresenting the number of cars sold in Australia by 340,000 every year — when they are really just sitting idly at the dealership in many cases. | | | | Mike Eckstein had to abandon his "millennial dream" in Chicago's thriving tech scene to care for his sick Mum in Sydney. Then he found a job that'd let him work any time, anywhere in the world. | | | | A backlash from energy and business lobby groups prompts the Federal Government to water down its plans to break up the big power companies. | | | | Greens MP Sam Hibbins claims victory in the seat of Prahran in Melbourne's inner south, while independent Ali Cupper wins the regional seat of Mildura from Nationals MP Peter Crisp. | | | | Every time a terror event happens, there's a frantic search for answers. Now, families of Australian extremists have come forward for a rare series of interviews they hope will help others pick up on signs of radicalisation they might have missed. | | | | The protests that have gripped France, led by the so-called gilets jaunes, are not only a backlash against high living costs and insufficient wages but an expression of individuality amid the limits society imposes on us, writes Claude Poissenot. | | | | Ten years ago, three young men drove away from a birthday party and their car hit a bad bend in the road. In an instant, three families were shattered. But this is more than a story of pain: it is one of forgiveness, and overcoming. | | | | Fishing groups and experts have defended the actions of anglers who landed a nearly 650 kilogram black marlin off Queensland, saying the majority of catches tagged and released in Australia survive. | |  |
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