| | | | Eight-year-old Anita Board was driving at more than 85 kilometres per hour in her junior dragster when she crashed into a concrete barrier, causing massive and irrecoverable brain damage, a Perth coronial inquest hears. | | | | A prominent economist calls for an overhaul of the superannuation system to eliminate the "rorting" of cash refunds for franking credits, saying some self-funded retirees will be treated unfairly under Labor's proposed changes. | | | | A former senior staffer in Federal Minister Michaelia Cash's office tells a court he knew a media tip-off about police raids on union offices would be politically damaging for Opposition Leader Bill Shorten. | | | | Nick Milligan is reeling after seeing the trailer for a big-budget film that appears to have a similar storyline to a book he published six years ago. | | | | Saying she never did anything dangerous in Syria and that people should have sympathy for her, 19-year-old Briton Shamima Begum asks that she be allowed to return to the UK with her baby. | | | | In declaring a "national emergency", Donald Trump is attempting to wrestle funding power away from Congress. But tomorrow, Congress could fight back, writes Micheline Maynard. | | | | Scott Morrison says a "sophisticated state actor" is to blame for a cyber attack which saw hackers go looking for data belonging to the Liberals, Labor and the Nationals during an assault on parliamentary servers. | | | | A pre-trial hearing for the man accused of being the Claremont serial killer is again disrupted as Bradley Robert Edwards is taken to hospital after being attacked in prison, the Corrective Services Minister says. | | | | Eight-year-old James Grisman was only the fourth sea snake bite victim to be treated in Queensland in 30 years, an event that could have potentially turned deadly. | | | | Dutch cyber expert Victor Gevers discovers names, identification card numbers, birth dates, employers and locations all exposed for on an unsecured Chinese online database. | | | | Two ex-detectives suspect dirty Chinese money is being laundered through multi-million-dollar waterfront mansions on the Gold Coast. They've been hired to get it back. | | | | Yvette Nikolic walks free but her husband John is still on trial after pleading not guilty to five charges related to the importation and possession of drugs, as well as the possession of firearms without a licence. | | | | For those who've caught the travel bug, it's hard to imagine why about 40 per cent of Aussies haven't ventured overseas. But there are plenty of reasons many don't, including lack of finances, no interest and fear. | | | | David was once a high-flying banker with a beachside home, now he says he's "lost everything" and spends almost three quarters of his income on rent — this is how he became a Sydney cost-of-living statistic. | | | | There's a famous superstition that bad things come in threes, but for the Oscars, the blows just keep on coming. With less than a week to go until showtime, here's everything that's happened so far. | | | | A woman who was allegedly raped by the former Queensland president of the CFMEU sent messages from her phone saying "save me" and "please help" before the incident, a court is told. | | | | A 79-year-old Perth woman is on trial over allegations she pushed her elderly husband — who was not a strong swimmer — into their backyard pool while he had weights tied to his waist. | | | | Some of Australia's sports have taken steps to achieve pay equity for male and female athletes — now a group of 17 sporting chiefs release a plan to close the gender pay gap. | | | | Cybersecurity is everyone's business and could come to resemble the Dunkirk evacuation of World War II, warns the ADF's head of information warfare. | | | | The bass player of one of the world's most popular bands performs handstands across the stage to entertain the crowd after a power outage temporarily cuts the sound system midway through the second song. | |  |
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