| | | | For the first time since 1941, the Government lost a vote on its own legislation after Labor teamed up with the crossbench to pass amendments on the asylum seeker policy. Now the Coalition is gearing up for an election fight. | | | | Beneath Bill Shorten's legislative victory in the name of humanitarianism lies a gamble that the boats won't start up again. If they do, the Coalition will castigate the Labor leader, writes Andrew Probyn. | | | | A New York jury finds Mexico's most notorious drug lord guilty of running an industrial-scale smuggling operation after a three-month trial packed with daring, Hollywood-style tales. | | | | One day after weeks of scorching heat the owners of a remote Top End station noticed smoke rising up from the stockyard. When they went to check it out, they discovered something very unusual. | | | | The Queensland Government is checking whether mining firm Adani has again breached its environmental licence for releasing water into a coastal wetland beside Abbot Point coal terminal. | | | | By day, he's a supermarket manager, by night, she's the ultimate drag superstar, and she wants to be a role model "for all the baby queens". | | | | After decades of protecting other people's properties, volunteer firefighter John Davis said it was "a different story" when his home was threatened by a blaze in northern NSW yesterday. Here's how he saved it. | | | | Emergency responders arrived on the scene after residents nearby heard a baby crying from deep within a concrete storm drain. | | | | Papua New Guinea police are seeking the return of nearly 300 imported cars loaned to officials for driving world leaders around its capital during last year's Asia-Pacific Economic Corporation meeting, according to authorities. | | | | A driver who hit two police officers while sending texts behind the wheel is savaged in a Sydney court, with his victims saying his "selfish actions" left them in constant pain. | | | | While the bushfires that ravaged Tasmania over the summer are no longer threatening communities, photos show the charred remnants of the parts of the state's World Wilderness Heritage Area. | | | | If you are buying flowers for Valentine's Day there is a better-than-even chance they are imported from as far away as Kenya or Colombia. But new biosecurity rules may be about to change that, and your bouquet may soon cost more. | | | | Hundreds of refugees from Syria and Iraq continue to arrive in regional settlements in Queensland, with funding changes seeing some services cut. | | | | They say in space no-one can hear you scream, but it seems you can hear the boom of Earth's magnetic shield when it is hit by jets of plasma spewed from the Sun, a new study finds. | | | | A mobile app designed to issue reminders for childhood vaccinations by Queensland Health has been wiping the data entered by parents, prompting complaints that it is essentially "useless". | | | | The distraught owners say they are still hopeful of having their "tree babies" — worth around $166,000 — returned, but implored the thieves to take proper care of them. | | | | Townsville's public health unit confirms a person has died from the soil-borne disease melioidosis, with several other people also in intensive care and more cases expected as the flood disaster clean-up continues. | | | | Infamous "dine-and-dash" thief Lois Loder is sentenced to two years behind bars for a brazen crime spree where she fleeced Perth businesses out of thousands of dollars in unpaid bills. | | | | Brazil's latest dam disaster is a human and environmental tragedy, but the fallout is seeing iron ore prices surge across the world and raking in millions of extra royalties for government coffers. | | | | We visited schools from one of the poorest and wealthiest suburbs in the same city and took a peek inside kids' lunch boxes. Here's what we found. | |  |
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