| | | | Four people are stranded in a car in rising floodwaters in central western Queensland, as the Cassowary Coast further north prepares for possible flash flooding and a flood-affected Townsville braces for more heavy falls. | | | | At 58, Sandra radiates competence. Perhaps it comes from surviving the un-survivable. When fire came to Bald Spur Road on Black Saturday, hers was the only house left standing. A decade later, she's one of just a few original residents who remain. | | | | The insurer of a driver who died in a horrific car crash has been ordered to pay more than $1 million to a former policeman who held the man's hand as he died. | | | | Mr Booker becomes the ninth person to announce a presidential bid in what is expected to be a crowded and diverse race to be the Democratic candidate to try to unseat US President Donald Trump. | | | | The Murray Darling royal commission report was full of fury. But both sides of politics have no sense of urgency and bureaucrats are serving as scapegoats for negligence overseen and endorsed by government, writes Laura Tingle. | | | | As the Murray-Darling Basin dries up or sees mass fish kills, a royal commission finds the Murray-Darling Basin Authority committed gross maladministration but social media is placing the blame on cotton irrigators. | | | | Tasmania is in the grip of a fire crisis which has displaced hundreds and caused massive smoke pollution. Images from space reveal just how much of the landscape has been scarred. | | | | Emily Spanton is vindicated after a jury convicted her rapists, having endured intense scrutiny from the French press and investigators following her sexual assault in police headquarters. | | | | For 12 months Queensland woman Elli Webb set out to reuse and recycle her household waste, and with some ingenious ideas, she achieved her goal — reducing her waste to the contents of a single glass jar. | | | | I'd been interviewing trolls for three years before I started writing my book. I thought I knew what I was walking into, but I had no idea, writes Ginger Gorman. | | | | A decade after Kevin Rudd was ousted as Prime Minister over his failed emissions trading scheme, Australia is still without a clear policy and it is discouraging investment. | | | | Copper water bottles look great, but unless you're in an area without clean water you probably don't need one. You should still be washing your bottle more often, though. | | | | There are warnings China's massive investment in artificial intelligence is for the primary purpose of tightening control of its population, and the worry is other countries may be taking note. | | | | Many fathers underestimate the power they have in determining their daughter's romantic happiness, writes Madonna King. But how do dads become a person their child can talk to about this aspect of growing up? | | | | The latest donations made to federal political parties have been revealed, and a little-known professor is Australia's new biggest donor. | | | | Senior Constable Sean Daniel Murphy is slapped with a two-year good behaviour bond and a $5,500 fine for making an offensive phone call to Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young's office, leaving a staff member "shocked, shaken and upset". | | | | A 28-year-old Indigenous man has told the ABC he was "terrified" when he was allegedly repeatedly bashed by police at a New South Wales police station on Australia Day last year. | | | | The search is on across Facebook for a family featured in an album full of photos up to 21 years old, after it was found hidden away in a travel case purchased at a Queensland op shop. | | | | Donald Trump praises US Customs and Border Protection Officials for making the "biggest fentanyl bust in our country's history" after the agency captures almost 114 kilograms of the drug. | | | | An Adelaide Hills resident who feared there was a home invader in her lounge was relieved to find it was merely a mild-mannered marsupial making itself at home. | | | | It has been dubbed NASA's "mission to touch the Sun", but the Parker Solar Probe is actually orbiting the centre of our planetary system, rather than propelling into its fiery demise. | |  |
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