| | | | After squandering four match points, losing six straight games and rolling her ankle, Serena Williams makes a shock departure from the Australian Open quarter-finals in a three-set loss to Karolina Pliskova. | | | | Prime Minister Scott Morrison has delivered an extraordinary spray at dumped Gilmore candidate Grant Schultz, while defending the decision to parachute in Indigenous leader Warren Mundine instead. | | | | The big question that remains unresolved is whether the PM's provocative move in Gilmore is politically savvy or electorally dangerous, writes Patricia Karvelas. | | | | Clive Palmer says the charges, brought against him by ASIC, are "doomed to fail" and are an attempt to make him ineligible from running in the upcoming federal election, but the Supreme Court has denied his bid to have the charges dropped. | | | | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's speedy rise to prominence seems like the script of a 1990s romantic comedy. With her socialist leanings and media savvy, she's a tonic for the left and a pariah for the right, writes Micheline Maynard. | | | | Former coal tycoon and discharged bankrupt Nathan Tinkler defends his track record, shrugging off suggestions he left a trail of unpaid debts in the wake of his collapsed mining empire. | | | | The aged care worker who was secretly filmed abusing a grandfather on Sydney's northern beaches is sentenced to four months in jail. WARNING: This story contains footage that may distress some viewers. | | | | Friends remember JJay De Melo as "a young man full of life, energy, spirit and dreams" who was only days away from supporting American rapper Tyga after he became the 20th person to drown at a Victorian beach this summer. | | | | The New York based artist who designed a controversial $2 million Gold Coast artwork which cannot be read by drivers, says the installation was never meant to be a sign and council's idea to remove it is "crazy". | | | | The Federal Government is on the hunt for revenue lost due to potential underreporting of income or outright tax avoidance by individuals earning money from sharing economy services. | | | | A mass feral horse death at the base of a dry waterhole in Central Australia has been blamed on an extreme heatwave in the region. | | | | The banking royal commission shone a spotlight on how credit cards and loans put Australians into financial difficulty, but a Senate inquiry is hearing how the rapidly growing 'buy now, pay later' sector is doing the same to many young people. | | | | The music star surprised concert-goers during an intimate performance, pulling a young drought-impacted sheep farmer onto the stage and giving her his electric guitar. | | | | Tasmanian firefighters thought they could save the rustic Skittle Ball Plains Homestead, but were forced to evacuate along with its owners when it caught fire yesterday when embers drifted over from a large bushfire burning in the state's Central Plateau. | | | | Michael Panayides, 26, was driving a stolen car in Melbourne's inner south-east when he crashed into Gitta Scheenhouwer, pinning her against another car. | | | | The former employee of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who later gained Australian citizenship and became a prominent writer and outspoken online political commentator, has not been heard from since travelling from New York to Guangzhou last week. | | | | A new method of processing household rubbish will ensure 90 per cent of waste will be kept out of landfill. | | | | Donald Trump still wants to deliver his State of the Union address next week, despite Nancy Pelosi telling him to postpone it. Here's how it can still happen — even in a tweet. | | | | A film about the high-profile murder of James Bulger by two 10-year-olds in the UK in 1993 should not be in contention, Denise Fergus says. | | | | Rumours of fishermen catching metre-long bull sharks in the Brisbane River often swirl around the city, and while the sharks have ideal conditions to thrive, population estimates vary wildly. | |  |
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