| | | | Two ex-detectives suspect dirty Chinese money is being laundered through multi-million-dollar waterfront mansions on the Gold Coast. They've been hired to get it back. | | | | Labor and the crossbench plan to zero in on the awarding of contracts for security services on Manus Island, amid revelations more than $420 million is going to a relatively unknown company that was registered to a beach shack on Kangaroo Island. | | | | David was once a high-flyer with a beachside home, but now he doesn't know where his next meal will come from and Sydney's cost of living is partly to blame. | | | | As a health care provider I must source "informed consent", but too often this comes down to a form that patients haven't read a word of. Does that form then hold any value, asks oral surgeon Krati Garg. | | | | It's regarded among the worst of all our failings, coming in third on the seven deadly sins hit parade — but if marshalled correctly, greed can work to all our benefit, writes Ian Verrender. | | | | Legendary Australian actor Jack Thompson juggles shooting his new film, High Ground, in the Top End and end-stage kidney failure. | | | | The current cricket season is being reviewed as a failure because it has not provided heart-warming local triumph or met imagined growth metrics — but that misses the bigger picture, writes Richard Hinds. | | | | Australia's biggest companies are ignoring calls from regulators and investors to do more to mitigate the risks of climate change, with a new study finding that many of the nation's top 100 companies still do not identify climate change as a material business risk. | | | | Former prime minister Kevin Rudd's suggestion that Australia should offer citizenship to residents of Tuvalu, Kiribati and Nauru in exchange for control of their seas has been met with condemnation in the Pacific. | | | | Aged care advocates take aim at a decision by peak industry body Leading Age Services Australia to oppose proposed guidelines that could have made air conditioning mandatory in nursing homes. | | | | A unique floating rubbish bin, which effectively acts as a vacuum cleaner for the ocean, is being put to good use in waters off WA for the first time. | | | | While heralding what he says is the imminent defeat of Islamic State in Syria, the US President calls on European allies to take back more than 800 of their citizens captured fighting for the militant group, threatening to release them if they don't. | | | | Heather Nauert, President Donald Trump's top pick for the next US ambassador to the United Nations, withdraws from consideration saying it is in the best interest of her family. | | | | A 44-year-old man wakes to the sound of his dog barking and finds a man in his loungeroom. A struggle ensues and the intruder dies in the Harrington Park home. | | | | Hundreds of passengers throughout Europe are stranded by the abrupt collapse of the British regional airline Flybmi, which cited higher fuel costs and Brexit uncertainty for the closure. | | | | 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". | | | | It's technology based on the techniques of the whale hunters, but this could be the solution for cleaning up the tonnes of space junk orbiting the Earth. | | | | A man is knocked off his board and attacked by a shark while surfing at Byron Bay's Belongil Beach. He didn't realise until he got to the beach that "a big chunk" was missing from his leg. | | | | A man has eaten a large quantity of the drug known as ice while trying to evade officers during a dramatic late-night pursuit north of Brisbane, police say. | | | | Archaeologists working on islands along Australia's remote north-west coast discover 160-year old engravings left by American whaling crews in the 1840s, offering a rare glimpse of their tedium and isolation. | |  |
By business editor Ian Verrender | |  |
By Offsiders columnist Richard Hinds | |  |
By Krati Garg | |  |
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