| | | | The former prime minister urges his colleagues not to "capitulate" to threats from Liberal backbencher Craig Kelly, while also saying he planned to call a March 2 election before being ousted from the nation's top job. | | | | Almost a year on from the day locals first raised the alarm, the disappearance of Larrimah man Paddy Moriarty, 70, and his kelpie Kellie remains a disturbing mystery. Larrimah — already a dysfunctional tangle of disputes and disagreements — is now in a state of disarray. | | | | Medical information supplied by an unknown number of customers to Commonwealth Bank's insurance operation is made available to other arms of the bank, including to staff who decide whether to approve or decline loan applications. | | | | From TV doctor to independent politician shaking up Federal Parliament, Kerryn Phelps is the "woman of the moment" in Canberra. But she says her life before politics readied her for her greatest challenge yet. | | | | Scott Morrison has unofficially marked out the territorial lines over which he will argue voters will be worse off under a change of government. But forces far greater than government policy are driving events on each issue, writes Ian Verrender. | | | | The US left has found itself at an impasse as different groups vie for control of the Democratic Party. But as history shows this is a familiar situation. | | | | A senior anaesthetist who resigned from the new Northern Beaches Hospital complains of inadequate equipment, training and lack of planning for a patient's worst-case scenario at the $600 million facility. | | | | Scott Morrison's reliance on a little black notebook is a subtle reminder that he is less comfortable on the stage than any of his recent predecessors in office, Greg Jennett writes. | | | | China's rise has been spectacular — hundreds of millions of people lifted out of poverty by their hard work. But we often lose perspective on just how powerful the country is, writes Kori Schake. | | | | The Pontiff makes his clearest comments yet on "actively" homosexual priests and nuns, saying they should leave the church rather than live a "double life". | | | | A series of email communications allegedly written by Graham Morant's wife to the group Exit International — which provides information on end-of-life matters — is one of four grounds of his appeal, after he was sentenced to 10 years in jail for counselling and assisting her suicide. | | | | The Israeli leader says police recommendations to indict him on charges of accepting bribes, fraud and breach of trust relating to the country's telecom giant have no legal basis. | | | | The White House says US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have reached a 90-day ceasefire agreement on new economic tariffs to allow for continuing trade negotiations. | | | | Victorian Liberal women are urging the party to learn from its "absolutely catastrophic" state election defeat and introduce quotas to support the elevation of more female MPs into the parliament. | | | | Wayne Bennett's time as Brisbane coach has come to an end, with the Broncos terminating his contract a year early to allow Anthony Seibold to take charge in 2019. | | | | Scott Morrison faces pushback in his quest to have new encryption legislation passed by the end of the final sitting week of the year, while the prospect of a High Court referral hangs over his colleague Peter Dutton in what will be a testing week for the minority Government. | | | | French President Emmanuel Macron tours the graffitied Arc de Triomphe monument as authorities look to avoid a repeat of the worst civil unrest in more than a decade, which saw groups of young men with masked faces — some carrying metal bars and axes — rioting on the streets of central Paris. | | | | The ABC understands the Opposition Leader told Ms Husar that recontesting the seat would not be in the best interests of the party — a message which may see Ms Husar run as an independent. | | | | Residents in Winfield, north of Bundaberg, have been advised to leave immediately as a bushfire burns near Baffle Creek, while concerns remain for the blaze burning on Stradbroke Island. | | | | The offender struck up a conversation with the man and helped him into a restroom before fleeing the scene on the chair. | | | | New York's Police Department is on the hunt for a man who dropped an engagement ring down a drain just moments after proposing. | | | | A man who sold roughly 70 Nazi artefacts, including a Third Reich book with "magnificent photos", says calls to donate the items to the war memorial is ridiculous. But he says he will "probably" review the language used in his next catalogues. | | | | It was the big idea that could have been a huge success or an expensive disaster, but more than 20 years later this little community is still reaping the benefits of a bold decision. | |  |
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