| | | | Cardinal George Pell has his bail revoked after being convicted of child sex offences, and is remanded in custody to await sentencing. He will be taken to the Melbourne Assessment Prison to spend his first night in jail. | | | | George Pell's lawyer describes his client's crimes as "no more than a plain vanilla sexual penetration case", but a prosecutor says they were brazen, forceful and humiliating acts that deserve immediate imprisonment. | | | | Former prime minister John Howard provides a supportive character reference for George Pell's pre-sentence hearing, while Melbourne's Archbishop says Pell remains his friend and he plans to visit him in prison. | | | | Don't expect to immediately read the full text of Robert Mueller's report online or watch him front a dramatic press conference. Here's what happens when the special counsel is finally done. | | | | Perth man Matt Whittaker pleads guilty to a downgraded charge arising from an attack on a Finnish man and woman who were hiking the world-famous Bibbulmun Track. | | | | The Prime Minister says he will convene Parliament and meet with those controlling Pakistan's nuclear arsenal in response to India's air strike inside its border, which Delhi insists targeted a militant group responsible for a deadly February suicide bombing in Kashmir. | | | | Sam Kerr is already the face and scoring power behind the Matildas, and now she'll be wearing the captain's armband as well. | | | | What does it take to meet Amazon's speedy delivery promise? Our news game lets you find out by playing the role of a 'picker' at the retail giant's Melbourne warehouse. | | | | Amazon's driving ambition is to provide online shoppers with cheap prices and deliver orders fast. Staff at its Melbourne warehouse say this mission results in a dehumanising, insecure and sometimes unsafe workplace. | | | | Crown Resorts director and former AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou is grilled in court over the $145 million collapse of education group Acquire Learning. | | | | A man accused of inserting his beer bottle into a woman who was performing at a Darwin buck's night tells a court he was being "a larrikin" and has "seen worse things at the Winnellie Hotel". A Supreme Court jury will retire this morning to consider its verdict. | | | | Australia's Royal Commission into child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church has led to important changes. Cardinal George Pell's conviction may provide the impetus for further global change, writes Noel Debien. | | | | If you've ever felt like a fraud at work, you're not alone — even highly-experienced surgeons struggle with impostor syndrome. But they also know how to manage it. | | | | Chicken kebabs are off the menu for Boris the dog, after the pup's owners were slugged with a $13,000 vet bill after their pet had to have emergency surgery to have a wooden skewer removed from its heart. | | | | There isn't a single musophobe (person scared of rats and mice) in sight as nine brave emergency responders clamour to free a chubby rat stuck halfway out of a sewer manhole cover in Germany. | | | | The combined impact of falling property prices, weaker rents, a lending crackdown and unfavourable tax changes risks triggering a property investor exodus from the market. | | | | You wake up one morning to find private photos — ones you definitely didn't want public — plastered all over the internet. Here's what to do next. | | | | Retailer Decathlon backtracks on plans to sell a sportswear hijab in France to "guarantee the safety" of its employees, after it was inundated with what it described as "unprecedented insults and threats". | | | | After a three year battle, the Northern Territory Civil And Administrative Tribunal rules four residents should be compensated for repairs and maintenance which the Government, as landlord, failed to carry out. | | | | The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting floodwaters will reach Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre in South Australia's outback within weeks, but the lake is unlikely to fill. | | | | In a scathing letter, Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson reveals she quit the forthcoming animated film Luck because of a decision to hire embattled former Pixar executive John Lasseter, questioning why women "would want to work for him". | | | | It won't be shrimp on the barbie but watermelon in the smoker if one Queensland farmer has his way. | |  |
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