| | Priscilla Meyer says she's given up on buying a home in Sydney and is moving interstate, as exclusive data reveals living standards in the Harbour City are actually going backwards. | | | As community leaders come to terms with eight Indigenous children taking their own lives in one summer, they fear their young people now consider suicide to be "normal". | | | At age 29, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest-ever congresswoman, routinely making headlines, growing her following and becoming a rising force in politics — all using media tactics that look a lot like Donald Trump's, writes Emily Olson. | | | Singing and telling jokes to hundreds of thousands of people tuning in on their mobile phones is not just a lifestyle in China, but a lucrative career that can make you a millionaire. | | | Immense loneliness is building around the world — and with it, our anxiety about solving the problem. But what if we've been thinking about it the wrong way? What if we thought of it as a human signal that can be dealt with through medication, asks James Norman. | | | On one of Australia's most remote tropical islands, a quiet campaign has been playing out to change the way the rest of the world sees it. And it looks like it's working. | | | Jake Butcher was 16 years old and weighed 172 kilograms when his doctor warned him he may not live past his teenage years. Now he's one of a growing number of teens turning their lives around with weight loss surgery. | | | Indigenous All Stars captain Cody Walker and rugby league Immortal Mal Meninga call for the national anthem to be changed, with Walker saying Advance Australia Fair does not represent him or his family. | | | Question Time was unusually extended to over two hours on Thursday, in what the Opposition described as a tactic by the Coalition to escape the second vote on the floor of the House of Representatives in a week. | | | Bruno Ganz, whose portrayal of Adolf Hitler in the historical war drama Downfall would go on to spawn thousands of angry-führer internet memes, dies aged 77. | | | Saying there's "an invasion of drugs, invasion of gangs, invasion of people" at the southern border, US President Donald Trump makes official his declaration of a national emergency to secure funding for his border wall. | | | As political debate intensifies ahead of Indonesia's general election and second presidential debate tonight, one woman details her experience of not meeting the "Islamic standard" expected by her aunties and uncles. | | | Five people are dead and several others injured after a man who had just been sacked opened fire at a warehouse west of Chicago before being fatally shot by police. | | | As the Morrison Government attempted to turn defeat in the Parliament into a political victory this week, two major developments in the policy and politics of border protection were largely overlooked, writes Laura Tingle. | | | When she infamously cut off her husband's penis nearly 26 years ago, Lorena Bobbitt became an endless source of jokes for late-night TV hosts and shock jocks. But in the age of #MeToo, women like Lorena and Monica Lewinsky are reclaiming their stories. | | | After a protracted struggle to bag a massive 40-kilogram python, a Far North Queensland snake catcher says she has become the victim of online abuse for her trouble. | | | Sydney FC claims the W-League championship after defeating Perth Glory 4-2 in the grand final at Sydney's Jubilee Oval. | | | In his first interview since being released from immigration custody, Grammy-nominated rapper 21 Savage says he did not "just come out and say" that he was British because he did not want to get deported. | | | The Canberra Capitals prove too strong for the Adelaide Lightning in the deciding third game of the WNBL grand final series to claim their eighth title. | | | Want to volunteer for a job in one of the country's stunning national parks where you can snorkel and not actually do much work? Tasmania has the job for you. | |  | By Emily Olson | |  | By James Norman | |  | By Jacob Kagi | |  | By Kathleen McPhillips | | | | | The ABC sent this message to starnewsposting@gmail.com these details are included to help provide assurance that this is a genuine email from ABC.
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