| | | | Dozens of supporters gather at the airport to greet the Melbourne-based footballer after he was freed from the Thai prison where he was held for more than two months while fighting an extradition request from Bahrain. | | | | A last-minute plot twist threatens to derail a bill to speed up medical evacuations from Manus Island and Nauru, as the solicitor-general says the amendments may be unconstitutional, sending the crossbench back to the drawing board. Follow live. | | | | Detectives have charged two men with attempted murder over the stabbing of notorious underworld figure Tony Mokbel at Victoria's maximum-security Barwon Prison yesterday. | | | | The NSW Rural Fire Service issues emergency warnings for two blazes burning in the state's north that are threatening properties on a hot and windy day. | | | | When Ludwika moved to Sydney from Poland, her local playgroup was a great place to meet people with her son Franek. But now the group has lost its venue and it's happening more often in NSW. | | | | One of the most prominent survivors of Melbourne's underworld, Mick Gatto, says he is considering his legal position over media reports he threatened to kill a defence lawyer and registered police informer if it was proven she was speaking to police. | | | | Allegations of stalking, sexual assault and inappropriate text messages are among a series of complaints against former Liberal National MP Jason Costigan. | | | | The campaign to free Australian footballer and refugee Hakeem al-Araibi after 76 days in a Thai prison is a victory for a grassroots movement that snowballed into an international juggernaut, writes David Mark. | | | | We visited schools from one of the poorest and wealthiest suburbs in the same city and took a peek inside kids' lunch boxes. Here's what we found. | | | | Staff face job losses and small businesses play the waiting game with insurance companies after the Townsville floods. | | | | Each week Bryan Denny is contacted by women from around the world, some of whom have emptied their bank accounts for him. It's all part of an ongoing online scam, and Colonel Denny is as much a victim as the women being duped. | | | | A judge has potentially opened up a new chapter in Australia's climate litigation history, writes Justine Bell-James. | | | | A coronial inquiry hears a man who went missing on a fishing trip said he was "pinned" by his fishing buddy who "was choking" him, with a suggestion the two were in a "twisted love triangle" with a woman. | | | | In a scathing 3,000-word interview, prominent political donor and Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo says he has been punished and smeared based on "groundless accusations" after Australia stripped him of his permanent residency. | | | | Infamous "dine-and-dash" thief Lois Loder is sentenced to two years behind bars for a brazen crime spree where she fleeced Perth businesses out of thousands of dollars in unpaid bills. | | | | You're forgiven for being confused, but because of its prominence in the election campaign, we're going to have to learn what dividend imputation means. The election might depend on it, writes Peter Martin. | | | | A blood donor has been found in Australia as part of a global search to help an American toddler with an extremely rare blood type, who requires frequent blood transfusions for cancer treatment. | | | | Brazil's latest dam disaster is a human and environmental tragedy, but the fallout is seeing iron ore prices surge across the world and raking in millions of extra royalties for government coffers. | | | | Relying on a car to get us around feels part of everyday life for most Australians — but it doesn't need to be. This is how people living in the inner city and regional areas managed to ditch the car or or minimise their day-to-day use. | | | | Though millions are suffering from malnutrition in Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro has blocked the import of humanitarian aid he believes is part of a US-orchestrated strategy to undermine and overthrow him. | | | | A 26-year-old man injured while attempting to cross from the Totem Pole to Cape Hauy in Tasmania's south is winched by a roping expert to a cliff ledge, before being carried 200 metres to be lifted to a rescue helicopter. | | | | Sometimes life with a pet just doesn't work out. But the decision to give up a cat or dog can involve guilt, shame and judgement, even if it's the best thing to do. | |  |
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