| | | | Legislation which will give doctors more power to decide whether asylum seekers should come to Australia for medical treatment is passed into law by the Senate with the support of Labor, the Greens and four independents. | | | | On this issue Labor has always been on the backfoot — it knows it and under Bill Shorten it has been shrewd in carefully avoiding being trapped talking about it. But Scott Morrison's government has problems of its own, writes Patricia Karvelas. | | | | The Government has lost a vote in the chamber of Parliament it needs to control in order to govern. What's going on? | | | | Dr Yumiko Kadota says she has received messages of support from all around the world after going public with her story about "four months of hell" working at a Sydney hospital. | | | | German airline Lufthansa seeks more than 2,000 euros compensation from a passenger who ditched his connecting flight as part of a money-saving scheme known as "hidden city" ticketing. | | | | The NSW Rural Fire Service says there are reports of destroyed properties at Tingha, as an out-of-control blaze burns "all around" the town and a second emergency warning is issued for a bushfire at Tabulam. | | | | An Adelaide driver accused of hitting a two-year-old boy while he played with his siblings outside their family home tells a court he did not stop at the scene because he feared for his safety. | | | | The aged care royal commission hears staff at an Australian nursing home ignored complaints of pain from an elderly stroke patient whose catheter had caused him horrific injuries. | | | | Leonard Casley dubbed himself "Prince Leonard" after setting up the independent state of Hutt River in WA's Mid West in 1970 following a stoush with the State Government over wheat production quotas. | | | | England captain Joe Root is widely praised for calling out West Indies bowler Shannon Gabriel after he allegedly makes a homophobic slur in a Test match in Saint Lucia. | | | | The Opportunity rover remains unable to be reached since the most intense Martian dust storm in decades, having lasted 15 years there on a mission that was only expected to run for three months. | | | | Demand for housing loans is dwindling from both investors and owner-occupiers, and some experts are warning the lending slump is creating a "feedback loop that drives prices significantly lower". | | | | A group of people who went into an abandoned home in Houston to smoke marijuana got a lot more than they bargained for when they stumble across the 150-kilogram beast in a cage, which has now been nicknamed "Tyson" after the movie The Hangover. | | | | The trial of Mexico's most notorious drug smuggler shows his drugs didn't make it to the US because of the lack of a border wall. They came through legal points of entry, writes Emily Olson. | | | | The maker of the hugely successful game says a young rapper's claim that it stole his dance move is untrue because no-one can own such a simple movement. | | | | The Federal Court hears a staff member for the then-justice minister joined Senator Michaelia Cash's former media advisor in tipping off journalists about the AFP raids on the offices of the Australian Workers' Union (AWU) in October 2017. | | | | Your first contact at a hospital might be with a computer that decides whether you have glandular or just the flu. | | | | In 1828, the bodies of about 30 Aboriginal men were thrown from a cliff in Tasmania's far north west. The Cape Grim massacre is not officially commemorated, but some think it's time to mark the day. | | | | A man who admitted to burying his wife's body then digging it up and burying it again did not murder her, a Supreme Court jury finds, instead convicting him of the lesser charge of manslaughter. | | | | Whether you consider yourself personable, shy, creative or organised, here's what you need to know about the Big Five personality traits — and how you can change them. | | | | The owners of a remote station have an unusual problem with their cattle yards — the ground is on fire and extinguishing it is proving nearly impossible. | | | | These areas were in the line of fierce bushfires just last week, but now they've experienced snowfall, leaving onlookers "squealing with glee". | | | | A campervan emblazoned with a slogan about masturbation that breached the advertising code of ethics sparks a renewed push from the South Australian Labor Party to crack down on offensive vehicles. | |  |
By Patricia Karvelas | |  |
By Emily Olson | |  |
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