| | | | With vendors dropping their prices and still struggling to sell their properties, new data shows there are more properties on the market and they are staying there for a longer period of time. But buyers are still reluctant, or unable, to take advantage of it. | | | | Every year when you are watching the Oscars there are few things that make you go — wait, what? Well, 2019 was no different. Here are some of the most surprising, strange, and heartening moments. | | | | The biggest night in showbusiness is here, with the Academy Awards underway in Los Angeles. Keep up with all the winners in every category as they're announced. | | | | Police are searching for more members of a group accused of a vicious attack on two St Kilda police officers in Melbourne's inner south, which left one requiring surgery. | | | | A man drowns at North Stradbroke Island after days of cyclonic conditions with beaches along parts of the Queensland coastline suffering serious erosion. | | | | Wildlife experts are searching for clues following the discovery of a humpback whale's body in undergrowth on the Brazilian island of Marajo — some 15 metres from the ocean. | | | | A former media adviser to the Registered Organisations Commission has denied he was the source of a leak about police raids on the Australian Workers' Union in October 2017. | | | | Real estate agents, lawyers and accountants will be forced to report dirty money used to buy property if Labor wins the upcoming federal election. | | | | Lady Gaga has a long history of shocking on the red carpet with her bold outfits, but her 2019 Oscars entrance stunned onlookers for a different reason. | | | | A Sunday night session on Caxton Street for Brisbane band Golden Age of Ballooning turns into an impromptu jam session with Red Hot Chili Peppers' drummer Chad Smith. | | | | After another successful test flight, Richard Branson believes he will be sending members of the public into space by the end of this year. | | | | Long-serving Tasmanian Liberal MP Rene Hidding resigns from politics, labelling abuse allegations levelled against him as "false and malicious". | | | | Former employees of Le Bon Ton in Collingwood and Longhorn Saloon in Carlton claim they were paid below the award rate and did not receive penalty rates, even on shifts ending at 5:00am. | | | | Liberal Party candidate Georgina Downer says she was "absolutely not" presenting Commonwealth money when she was photographed with a giant novelty cheque at a South Australian bowls club last week. | | | | BHP reaches an undisclosed settlement with the driver who was outside the cabin when his fully-laden iron ore train took off unmanned and was deliberately derailed 120 kilometres south of Port Hedland. | | | | Ian Macdonald is freed from prison after having his conviction for misconduct over the granting of a mining exploration licence in the Hunter Valley quashed in the Court of Criminal Appeal — and calls for an immediate inquiry into the ICAC. | | | | Former Saints star Nick Riewoldt says there is a "free-for-all" in the offseason of players using illicit drugs because "there's no ramifications" for players who are caught. | | | | Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga refuses to be substituted and then lets in four penalties in a shootout as his spectacular rebellion against team orders seals defeat to Manchester City in the League Cup final. | | | | The controversial Chinese scientist who shocked the world by claiming he edited the genes of twin sisters may have inadvertently enhanced their brains, scientists say. | | | | At a meeting of the world's highest-ranking Catholics, there was a lot of talk about hidden files, victims demanded "zero tolerance" for paedophile priests, and women stole the show. | | | | It took lying by the side of the road, his life ebbing away, for a disenchanted young doctor to realise he did want to save lives. In the shadow of death, Dr Tim Duncan finds his true calling. | | | | A sneaky spotted python makes its way from Queensland to Glasgow in the suitcase of a Scottish tourist, who at first glimpse thought it was a practical joke. | |  |
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