| | | | As a social scientist, Margaret Kerans has lived as a pioneer — but as her curious mind started to fade, her daughter found loan documents and a financial mess she blames on Australia's biggest bank. | | | | Australia is in a property downturn that rivals 1989 — when interest rates were 17 per cent, unemployment was rising and the economy heading for recession. So why is the market so weak in the midst of economic good times? | | | | If Britain's Parliament rejects Prime Minister Theresa May's deal on December 11, the UK will have to pick from a handful of bad options to salvage Brexit. | | | | For Brexiteers and others in the Parliament, this is a great betrayal of what the British people voted for in 2016 — a clear split from the European Union, writes Samantha Hawley. | | | | The discovery of a unique DNA signature common to multiple cancers could one day revolutionise the way we diagnose cancer, Australian researchers say. | | | | Karen thought she had found the perfect pet for her hobby farm — tall, dark and handsome Harry — but beneath his furry exterior seethed a "totally demented" rage. | | | | The ABC understands Defence recently offered a two-year extension and a 25 per cent cost increase to the French company building the submarines, as it tries to lock in a crucial final agreement for the $50 billion project. | | | | Newly-elected Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is beginning his term with grand gestures of change, including putting the state-owned Mexican version of Air Force One — worth $US200 million-plus — on the market. | | | | In Tasmania it's breeding time for the critically endangered swift parrot, but something is wrong. As numbers of females dwindle, the parrots are having extra-marital affairs. | | | | Ahmed Kilani is one of four chaplains in NSW prisons using Islam to pacify extremists. So does it work? | | | | Queensland is the "lunch room" and South Australia is the "maintenance department", according to the NSW Treasurer, who will give a speech to restore pride in his "premier state". | | | | A 26-year-old man, who violated a male colleague during a work function — in an incident described by his lawyer as "a momentary lapse" — is found guilty of rape by a court martial panel. | | | | Italy's Deputy Prime Minister lashes out as police arrest the suspected new head of the Sicilian mafia Settimo Mineo and 45 other alleged mobsters in a major blow to organised crime on the Mediterranean island. | | | | An international tax accounting company hopes to know by February if its legal challenge to the backpacker tax will see the controversial measure overturned. | | | | After years of false dawns and top fighters dodging big fights, the heavyweight division finally has three fighters capable of taking the sport back to the pinnacle. | | | | The popular Q&A website announces the data of its 100 million-odd users has been compromised. The only thing is, a lot of those users didn't even know they had an account. | | | | Robert Wells tells the Supreme Court in Cairns his son Samuel appeared with hands "covered in blood" shortly before their next door neighbour was found stabbed to death on his kitchen floor. | | | | 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. | | | | The Federal Government apologises to ABC Radio National presenter Patricia Karvelas after she was thrown out of Question Time for wearing a half-sleeve top, with the Speaker flagging a review of the dress code for female journalists. | | | | 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. | | | | 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. | |  |
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