| | Menindee residents crash the NSW Regional Water Minister's press conference on the banks of the Darling River, after he arrives in the town to inspect hundreds of thousands of dead fish, which suffocated in the latest mass killing. | | | Fiji officials were alerted to former Australian horse trainer John Nikolic and wife, Yvette, after they allegedly sailed their yacht on a similar route to another drug-smuggling vessel and lied about their journey, a court has heard. | | | Howard Schultz, who built Starbucks into a mega-brand, has set his sights on America's top job. But history suggests his plan to run as an independent could cost him, writes Micheline Maynard. | | | Prime Minister Scott Morrison has promised his Government would create 1.25 million jobs over the next five years, a figure that experts say will rely heavily on migrant workers. | | | A Sydney bus driver involved in a crash in Kingsgrove, in which two people on a scooter were killed, is refused bail after being charged with using a mobile phone while behind the wheel. | | | The Tasmania Fire Service confirms three properties in Glen Huon have been lost to a blaze burning in the state's south, with authorities warning they expect more structures to go as conditions worsen. | | | Former prime minister Tony Abbott says he is up for the fight as he prepares to defend his seat of Warringah against high profile independent challenger Zali Steggall. | | | World conditions will weigh heavily on our economy this year, according to a panel of experts, so what does that meant for wages, interest rates and house prices? | | | Ana Maria was pregnant when she was detained by a brutal regime. She was allowed to give birth before being "disappeared"; possibly drugged and thrown into the sea to die. For 40 years, her son had no idea. | | | Sam Wallace gained fleeting fame as a contestant on the reality TV show Big Brother, but was mistaken for another man when he was shot in a Gold Coast car park in 2015, a Brisbane court hears. | | | Telco TPG is ceasing the rollout of its mobile network, which would have been a fourth competitor in the Australian mobile phone market, blaming the government ban on Huawei. | | | Tributes from family and friends are being shared on social media, as the Mackay paramedic killed in Monday morning's ambulance crash is identified as 32-year-old Craig McCulloch. | | | BuzzFeed announces plans to slash its Australian workforce, and 25 staff are given redundancy letters, before general manager Simon Crerar tweets a correction saying only 11 roles will go. | | | Acting US Attorney-General Matthew Whitaker becomes the first top Government official to publicly confirm that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is in the final stages of investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 US election. | | | The most popular music on triple j is getting slower, more negative, and the alternative rock which dominated the 90s is all but gone, an analysis of 25 years of data reveals. | | | Laws slashing the amount of money unions are allowed to spend on NSW state election campaigns are overturned by the High Court because they place an "impermissible" burden on free political speech. | | | Tycoon Zhenya Tsvetnenko will remain behind bars until a hearing later this year to determine whether he should be extradited to the United States over allegations he defrauded mobile phone users. | | | A 75-year-old woman's body is recovered after a car plunges into water at a popular Perth fishing spot in what police say is a "tragic accident", with her 81-year-old husband recovering in hospital. | | | As investigators try to work out why a water-bombing aircraft ditched into a dam with three men on board, the company that operates the helicopter and others across Australia says it is confident the chopper was performing normally up to the point of impact. | | | China's military has test-fired its DF-26 intermediate ballistic missile, which reportedly has the capacity to strike moving warships. The missile is nicknamed the "Guam killer" because US military bases on the Pacific island are within its range. | | | Young festival-goers have decided not to take drugs or to test their substances themselves after five drug-related deaths over the last five months. | | | Police are investigating the deaths of a man and a woman at a house in central Queensland overnight. A crime scene has been declared and Brisbane homicide detectives have been called in. | | | Security footage shows the suspect remove the painting from a gallery wall in the presence of a large number of people, who barely give him a second look as he walks out the door. | | | By Micheline Maynard | | | By Dr Tanya Latty for Catalyst | | | By Offsiders columnist Richard Hinds | | | By business editor Ian Verrender | | | | | The ABC sent this message to starnewsposting@gmail.com these details are included to help provide assurance that this is a genuine email from ABC.
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