| | | | Vanilla is big money in a nation that produces up to 80 per cent of the world's natural vanilla, but which hangs around the bottom of global poverty lists. On the streets of Madagascar's vanilla capital Sambava, fast-moving hustlers trade the bean like drugs. | | | | The ABC obtains a cache of letters and emails sent to the Indigenous Affairs Minister about Australia Day, with most — including one from a young girl who said "it's the day we stole Australia from the Aboriginal people" — urging the Government to move the day from January 26. | | | | A woman will almost certainly be preselected to replace Kelly O'Dwyer in Higgins — even if a star male candidate emerges — but the party is so far behind that it simply cannot solve its "woman problem" at this election, writes Jane Norman. | | | | A Perth bar that instructed female staff members to stop wearing men's loose uniform shirts in favour of a tighter, lower cut designed for women backs down from the decision after it sparks a backlash from angry employees. | | | | The Queenslander is one of Australia's most iconic architectural styles, but it was heavily influenced by far-away lands of searing heat and torrential downpours. | | | | Graham Arnold's commitment to attacking leaves gaping holes at the back, and a football team with more firepower will ruthlessly expose that deficiency in the latter stages of the Asian Cup. | | | | Global economic growth is continuing to slow as trade tensions between the US and China continue to spook investors, consumers and central banks. | | | | Not all poo is created equal — especially in faecal transplant circles. Now researchers are teasing out why a few of us seem to be particularly potent stool donors. | | | | Most animals are biologically locked into being nocturnal or diurnal, but cane toads are proving they have super pest powers and can switch when conditions are right. | | | | British Prime Minister Theresa May seeks to break the parliamentary impasse over Brexit by proposing to get further concessions from the European Union on the controversial Irish border backstop. | | | | In his maiden A-League coaching season, Wellington Phoenix coach Mark Rudan went on a journey of discovery to find out what made the seemingly doomed club tick. It's had remarkable impact. | | | | Ms Harris, a first-term US senator and former California attorney-general known for her rigorous questioning of President Donald Trump's nominees, would be the first woman to hold the presidency and the second African-American if she succeeds. | | | | Serena Williams once again proves her credentials as one of the best on the planet, beating current world number one Simona Halep, while Novak Djokovic overcomes Daniil Medvedev to reach the quarter-finals. | | | | A Melbourne doctor alleges police assaulted her after she sought to help a barely conscious and bleeding man who was surrounded by officers — and that they then covered up the brutality. | | | | The officer, who had known the girl from when she was 13 years old, asked her to send nude pictures of herself, and had sent a photo of himself in uniform taken from a low angle, saying: "That is the view ur gunna have on ur knees baby ;)." | | | | A video picked up by media at the weekend showing young students wearing Make America Great Again caps surrounding and drowning out a Native American drummer doesn't reveal the whole picture. | | | | Visitors to Glenelg are treated to a rare encounter when a curious black labrador is spotted frolicking in an Adelaide river with a playful dolphin. | | | | In her resignation from politics, Kelly O'Dwyer said she feared another miscarriage in Canberra, far from home. Her announcement is shocking for more than just party-political reasons, writes Emma A. Jane. | | | | Australian Oliver Bridgeman, whose passport was cancelled in 2016 as authorities accused him of going to Syria with a plan to engage in "hostile activities", now says it is a "blessing in disguise", while also revealing he is now married. | | | | A website detailing the location and contact details of Australian farms causes outrage in the industry with claims it is an invasion of privacy. | |  |
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