| | | | Declassified documents reveal the Howard government considered new climate change policies and launched a media campaign to boost its reputation amid global dissatisfaction with Australia's commitments. | | | | Revellers around the globe bid farewell to an unsettling year filled with challenges to many of the world's most basic institutions, including politics, trade, alliances and religion. | | | | The new year means cheaper electricity prices, no more tampon tax and some higher transport costs. This is what else you can expect to see in 2019. | | | | The pre-conditions for Australia's most secretive intelligence base, Pine Gap, have been detailed in previously classified documents marked "for Australian eyes only". | | | | Revellers around the country look to the sky as fireworks light up the night and mark the start of 2019, with 8.5 tonnes of pyrotechnics exploding over Sydney Harbour alone. | | | | A proposal to automatically make people organ donors could reduce the number of available organs, the authority in charge of the system says. | | | | Thirty years ago, Francis Fukuyama declared we were seeing the end of history. But 2019 promises the bloody return of history, just on a different continent, writes Stan Grant. | | | | After an 11-year battle, survivors of institutional child abuse locked out of suing for compensation will now be able to launch civil claims after the NSW Government today removed a legal road block. | | | | The rate of road deaths in the Territory has eclipsed every other part of Australia for more than 30 years. And it showed no sign of slowing in 2018. | | | | Territory park rangers give a stark warning to people wanting to bushwalk during a Central Australian heatwave: "Postpone it or you may die." | | | | A farmer in far north WA captures the bizarre sight of a knot of cane toads hitching a ride on a python in the middle of the night. | | | | The just-released 1998 Northern Territory cabinet records reveal many of the issues being debated today were occupying the minds in the inner circles of government back then: Commonwealth funding, land rights, and how to grow international tourism in the heart of nature. | | | | For those unable to provide documentation of their actual birth day, happy birthday! | | | | Lord Mayor Clover Moore slams ticketed events for New Year's Eve celebrations at Sydney Harbour as "outrageous". The Police Minister responds with "nothing in life is free". | | | | CCTV footage captures the moment a man robs an 80-year-old Western Australian woman who has just withdrawn $1,000 in cash from a Melbourne ATM during her Christmas holiday. | | | | A new Chinese character is taking off on social media that netizens are using not as an insult, but a depressing personal descriptor amid rising income inequality, particularly in cities. | | | | Authorities say the explosion, which damaged 48 apartments, killed at least three people and left 79 unaccounted for, was most likely from a gas leak. | | | | After collapsing in a coffee shop, rugby league immortal Andrew Johns reveals he has been undergoing treatment for seizures over the last few years. | | | | There are new questions about the welfare of an Arabian princess who tried to escape her father's regime earlier this year, after photos emerged of her meeting the former United Nations human rights chief Mary Robinson. | | | | Staff shoot dead a lion after it gets loose from a locked area during a routine cleaning of an enclosure and kills a worker. | | | | Alice Springs prisoners are tear gassed during a riot sparked by their refusal to return to their cells during plus-40C temperatures. | | | | With the temperature sitting at 44 degrees Celsius, Chantelle Lowrie says her first thought was that "the poor little fella needs a drink" before she stopped to give water to the koala on the side of the road. | | | | As chair of the IWC in the 1990s, I witnessed the futility of the international community's approach to the whaling issue. It's time to put down the placards and chopsticks and talk, writes Peter Bridgewater. | | | | Australian governments have long hoped to encourage Asian language learning, but politicians and business figures visiting China still largely rely on locally engaged interpreters to relay their messages. | |  |
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