| | | | Banks and insurers must be "good corporate citizens" and show compassion to north Queenslanders affected by the floods, Deputy Premier Jackie Trad says, with insurers receiving 13,560 claims so far in the Townsville region. | | | | At least 13 people with mental impairment in Northern Territory prisons are there simply because the NT Government has no better place to put them, and one lawyer argues the NT should get a "big, fat, red F" for its treatment of the vulnerable. | | | | The pilot of a World War II aircraft walks away unharmed after being forced to make an emergency landing on a New South Wales beach. | | | | After more than a decade on the drawing board, a farmer and an engineer say they have created a generator that runs off green waste, recycles its emissions, and costs virtually nothing. | | | | Singer-songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke says she is "dying with excitement" after winning over judges and the public to beat nine other Australian acts and be crowned our entrant into the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. | | | | Ahead of a possible vote on the bill, Christopher Pyne suggests the proposal, backed by Labor, the Greens and the crossbench, could see all the refugees and asylum seekers "qualify" to travel to Australia. | | | | It shocked the critics, pushed one actor to the edge of sanity and established Mick Jagger as rock's prince of darkness. And now we know what really happened during its much-rumoured production. | | | | A French yellow vest protester loses four fingers during violent clashes in Paris as demonstrators try to storm the French National Assembly in a 13th consecutive weekend of unrest. | | | | NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro knows the Government needs to be worried about the "angry voter" who has "had enough" and the perception that the Nationals have moved too close to their Coalition colleagues. | | | | An unusual little nudibranch that eats bluebottles, looks like a Pokemon and can give you a nasty sting has been capturing the eye of residents on the NSW north coast. | | | | Trayeden Fulmer goes to high school and works part-time like any other teenager, but this young Queenslander is proving his worth in flood-hit Townsville. | | | | Senator Warren is part of an increasingly crowded and diverse field of Democrats vying for the chance to challenge President Donald Trump, the likely Republican nominee. | | | | Authorities warn concert-goers to be even more cautious of tickets purchased online, as a Perth scammer pleads guilty to fleecing victims out of thousands of dollars with counterfeit tickets. | | | | When the tall ship James Craig was left to rot in Tasmania 40 years ago, the public helped themselves to bits and pieces. Now the restorers are appealing for the final piece of the jigsaw to be returned to complete the job — the original ship's wheel. | | | | Police in the California city of Fontana say no secret underground room will help anyone who wants to be a member of a gang hide from them and urge the builder of the hidden rooms to put as much effort into being a productive member of society. | | | | Russian authorities say the endangered bears are no longer scared of light, noise, dogs or even cars, and have attacked people and entered residential buildings in the remote Novaya Zemlya islands, home to a few thousand people. | | | | There is no age limit for British drivers but Prince Philip will no longer get behind the wheel as "careful consideration" leads him to voluntarily surrender his licence. | | | | South Australian police renew calls for information into the murder of hobby opal fossicker Franco Murat, who was set alight by three alleged thieves while he was sleeping at his Blair Athol home in 1999. | | | | Underworld figure Mick Gatto threatened to kill a lawyer turned informer if it was proven she was speaking to police, according to the confidential evidence of a senior police officer. | | | | Chau Van Kham, an Australian pro-democracy activist who fled Vietnam as a refugee, has been held in his country of birth since mid-January. He is being investigated for alleged activities against the communist Government, under laws that carry the death penalty in severe cases. | | | | The search for the night parrot is as old as the Dreaming and punctuated by larrikins, obsessives and bush-telegraph legends. Can a partnership between scientists and traditional custodians finally flush this creature from the spinifex? | |  |
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