| | | | A traditional owner employed by Adani is referred to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission for investigation over the collapse of a million-dollar trust fund set up to hold mining income for the Wangan and Jagalingou (W&J) people. | | | | Thousands of motorists deal with smashed windows and battered panels after Sydney was smashed by a dramatic hailstorm, with insurers declaring the event a "catastrophe". | | | | Sydney was pelted with hailstones the size of tennis balls and golf balls, but some seemed to resemble more the shape of a cauliflower. Here's why. | | | | A flood of new green energy projects is likely to drive down household electricity bills, according to new analysis by government policy adviser the Australian Energy Market Commission. | | | | Personal details of some patients are being used to illegally access and steal drugs and medications in hospitals and health centres, the Queensland Health Ombudsman finds. | | | | The western social media platform is largely inaccessible to Chinese citizens, but Twitter appears to be the latest frontier for policing thought in China. | | | | Australians "are not dying well", with only one in four people able to access palliative care, a national advocacy group warns. | | | | Speaking at his annual news conference, the Russian President says nuclear tensions "could lead to the destruction of civilisation as a whole", says Western countries are antagonising Russia and paints himself as the world's protector. | | | | Twenty20 is sometimes seen as the death knell of the longer forms of cricket but the success of the BBL may instead attract a fresh generation of players and spectators to the red-ball game, writes Richard Hinds. | | | | Heatwave conditions persist across large parts of Queensland, with residents in the south-east bracing for a short burst of sweltering weather in the lead-up to Christmas. | | | | The Aussie voice coach who taught Elvish to the stars unpacks her craft and reveals the hardest accents to master. | | | | Calls for pill testing are regularly ignited — and summarily rejected — following suspected drug overdoses at music festivals. But how does pill testing work? And what's the case for introducing it in Australia? | | | | Exactly half a century ago, the risks involved in deciding to send the crew of Apollo 8 into lunar orbit for Christmas in 1968 would make the Moon landing seem easy in comparison, NASA insiders remember. | | | | A hobby farmer thought her half-brown, half-white lamb was simply "cute", but experts say its colouring is unique. | | | | Among the texts between the two prominent Liberal Party figures are references to Indian people as "curries". Both men deny sending the messages. | | | | Descendants of South Sea Islanders believe history has a tricky way with words when describing the people brought to Australia to work in the 19th century. | | | | Forgiveness is hard, but research shows it helps us feel better and live longer. So, what better gift could you give this Christmas than a peace offering, ask Alfred Allan and Maria Allan. | | | | A well-known Indigenous leader who is accused of repeated violent assaults — including pushing a woman's head into mud as well as choking her until she 'played dead' — is sentenced to eight months' jail. | | | | A Queensland man is charged with drug trafficking after police allegedly find 50 kilograms of cannabis in two of his suitcases at Adelaide Airport. | | | | If this Government were a Bond movie (and that's not a stretch, thanks to Andrew Broad) it would presently be Goldfinger, in the scene where the protagonist is trussed up to a bench with a deadly laser beam tracking towards his crown jewels, writes Annabel Crabb. | | | | Reports of drones flying over the airfield at London's Gatwick Airport have suspended flights and inconvenienced passengers days before the Christmas holiday period. | | | | A young Taiwanese deliveryman is facing a $547,000 repair bill after he dozed off and crashed into four parked Ferraris worth a combined $2.8 million. | | | | China's Foreign Ministry says that Canadian woman Sarah McIver is undergoing "administrative punishment" for working illegally, and the case is "very separate" to two other Canadians detained in China. | | | | Air crash investigators use the corroded memory card from a camera to retrieve photographs from the cockpit of a seaplane that crashed into a creek north of Sydney on New Year's Eve, killing six people. | |  |
By Alfred Allan and Maria Allan | |  |
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