| | | | A number of housing industry insiders issue a warning about curbing negative gearing, with mortgage company boss "Aussie John" Symond saying it has to be treated "very carefully". | | | | The US President engages in a heated exchange with the top two Democratic MPs in front of the media at an Oval Office meeting about funding for his border wall, threatening a Government shutdown if he does not get his way. | | | | The Federal Government is accused of unlawfully locking up an Aboriginal man in immigration detention and moving to banish him from Australia — the second such case in about four months. | | | | Craig Campbell was hailed for saving two young men from an angry mob during the Cronulla riots — but it ended up costing him his career. | | | | Some Jewish residents in Canberra say they are afraid to go to public events or show religious clothing for fear of anti-Semitic attacks, which a Rabbi says has already driven one person out of the national capital. | | | | A day after delaying a vote on her Brexit deal, British Prime Minister Theresa May flies to Europe in a last-ditch attempt to renegotiate certain controversial aspects of the deal. But the EU Commission head says there is no wriggle room. | | | | After being diagnosed with MS, Andrea Zorbalas was told to prepare for life in a wheelchair. Instead, she got a second opinion and found a spot in a life-changing trial. | | | | Former Greens member for the Victorian state seat of Northcote, Lidia Thorpe, says that the rate of removal of Indigenous children has increased 400 per cent over the last decade. But Fact Check finds that doesn't check out. | | | | The Commonwealth Bank uncovers another batch of surprise costs relating to long-standing behavioural issues and plans to offload some of its problem wealth management and insurance businesses. | | | | Ricardo Palma Salamanca escaped prison in Chile in a metal basket dangled from a helicopter in 1996, but now he has been captured. | | | | Parents share their concerns about being able to access infant formula for their children following an ABC investigation into a network of Chinese buyers targeting premium baby formula products. | | | | Joel Robinson is one of Australia's few producers of the beverage mead — and he is doing it with an extremely rare olfactory condition that makes almost everything smell like rotting flesh or burnt rubber. | | | | If you've ever had your carry-on luggage weighed before boarding a flight, you'll know what an arduous process it can be. But let's examine the pros and cons of this widening crackdown. | | | | Juntendo University is the latest school to admit it made entrance interviews harder for women to pass, saying it was because females were more mature and had a natural advantage against young male applicants who needed to be "rescued". | | | | A lawyer for Melbourne-based refugee Hakeem AlAraibi, who is detained in Thailand, says his home country of Bahrain is yet to lodge a formal extradition request with Bangkok. | | | | Read the weird, funny and philosophical emails that people are sending to Melbourne's trees. | | | | The aim of any charity is to make themselves reundant but when the mission is complete, and there's a surplus of donor money, charities face the ethical dilemma of whether to morph their mission or shut up shop. | | | | South Australia beats strong national competition to house the Australian Space Agency, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison describing it as a "launching pad to triple Australia's space economy". | | | | Time magazine names "The Guardians and the War on Truth" — a group of journalists who have either died or gone to jail for their work — as the most influential group of people for 2018. | | | | The men were walking along one of Melbourne's most popular beach precincts when they were set upon by about 20 young men of African-Australian appearance, according to police. | | | | Ongoing drought conditions take their toll on century-old travelling stock routes, with vital areas in south-west Queensland closed off to graziers until further notice. | | | | Former police officer Mikhail Popkov confesses to dozens of homicides in the 1990s and 2000s, targeting women he viewed as being morally unfit, offering to give them rides in his car, often while wearing his uniform. | | | | Edwin Stocqueler failed to make his fortune in Australia, but his painting of the Victorian goldfields is a treasure at the National Museum. | | | | Katherine Comparti says "everything you could imagine" went through her mind when she became lost in thick jungle during a holiday to the remote island of Christmas Island off the West Australian coast. | | | | The former chief financial officer of construction giant Leighton Holdings, Peter Gregg, is facing up to four years in jail after being found guilty of falsifying the company's books. | |  |
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