| | | | Parts of flood-ravaged Queensland will take years to rebuild, Scott Morrison warns during a visit to a Cloncurry property overcome with rotting carcasses, while the state's Deputy Premier declares all insurance claims will be assessed. | | | | A murder charge against a man accused of killing toddler Cheryl Grimmer, who went missing almost 50 years ago, is dropped after a key piece of evidence was ruled inadmissible in court. | | | | As far as Thursdays go in Washington, February 14 is nothing to sneeze at. Donald Trump's set to avert a government shutdown and declare a national emergency, which could be a precedent-setting moment in US politics, writes Zoe Daniel. | | | | A jury clears 35-year-old fisherman Andrew Doan of murdering Charles McCarthy after a fight in Fremantle in which he was accused of stabbing him in the head with a screwdriver. | | | | The banking royal commission's proposed crackdown on dealers signing customers up for car loans could also hit the 'interest-free' deals retailers use to get shoppers over the line for big purchases, from whitegoods to electronics. | | | | If it had not been for a team of fast-moving staff and enough salt to 'fill a small house', the unprecedented floods in North Queensland would have destroyed the world's largest living coral exhibition. | | | | Concerns about a breach of union rules prompted Senator Michaelia Cash to refer the AWU to an industry watchdog, she tells a Melbourne court, denying it was done because it involved Bill Shorten. | | | | A judge rejects a defence lawyer's request for a suppression order on the identity of a 21-year-old man charged with the attempted prison murder of underworld figure Tony Mokbel. | | | | A researcher in artificial skin technology says she can't remember walking 200 metres with her own scalp in her hand after a lab accident, but says it has given her a unique insight into her work. | | | | A Tasmanian man who claimed to be filming a television program admits he sold a fake advertising package to a woman for $5,000, but is "willing to pay it back", a court hears. | | | | Four teenage girls are taken to hospital in a stable condition after overdosing on what is believed to be prescription drugs at their Gold Coast school this morning. | | | | Authorities dismiss media reports an incident in which two masked men shouted racial and homophobic slurs at Jussie Smollett before attacking him and putting a rope around his neck was a hoax. | | | | Police raid a waterfront shack at Callala Beach on the NSW south coast where they allege a "sophisticated" drug syndicate was being coordinated and paid for with cryptocurrency. | | | | The corporate watchdog puts white-collar criminals on notice with "game-changing" new proposed penalties including steep fines and potential jail terms of fifteen years. | | | | Nearly 30 nations take part in Asia's largest multi-national military jungle survival training by learning how to survive in a tropical jungle during an emergency situation. | | | | A disease that could potentially wipe out Australia's multi-billion-dollar livestock industry has been detected at Australian airports. | | | | A Hunter Valley woman given a suspended jail term for grooming a boy for sex while she was a teachers aide withdraws her appeal after a judge warns she got off lightly. | | | | They're among the most common birth defects, with one affecting one in every 115 boys born in Australia — and rates are on the rise. A new paper sheds light on why this may be. | | | | The royal commission into the use of police informants reveals that at least three other lawyers were approached by Victoria Police to work with them, including one who has since been murdered. | | | | A major bushfire raging in northern NSW is again declared an emergency as it impacts on isolated regional properties, and firefighters warn it is too late for some residents to leave. | | | | Massive plumes of polluted floodwater spanning the entire coast of north-east Queensland encroaches on the outer reaches of the Great Barrier Reef, sparking a fresh threat to the beleaguered natural wonder. | |  |
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