| | | | Jim Pembroke stands to lose thousands if Labor wins office and goes ahead with its plan to scrap franking credit cash refunds for self-funded retirees. And he doesn't mind one bit. | | | | In Australia's largest island national park, taxpayers will be forced to spend $1.3 million cleaning up a resort in ruins while the Queensland Government courts companies to build more eco-accommodation on the other side of the island. | | | | Christian Read is one of thousands of Australians now taking medicinal cannabis and he insists while it cannot cure him of the pain he experiences, it grants him some relief and the ability to "engage in the world". | | | | One of Australia's senior military figures says the threat of cyber attacks is on the rise against the nation's infrastructure and military networks. | | | | The Department of Home Affairs is looking at ways to use "sophisticated algorithms and data matching" to automate the process after Hakeem al-Araibi was imprisoned for two months because processes "broke down". | | | | Personal trainer Bradley Soper's friends and colleagues say he loved people and put others first — leaving them in shock to discover he was the intruder who died during a botched home invasion in Sydney's south-west. | | | | The chances of Cyclone Oma making landfall near Brisbane are low, but "pretty major" impacts are expected along the south Queensland coast late this week. | | | | Former Bestjet employees claim the failed online travel portal's offices were dysfunctional, saying they took their phone headsets to the toilet and that refunds owed to customers were deliberately "stalled". | | | | A judge at the Jerusalem District Court dismisses arguments that the life of Malka Leifer, who is fighting extradition to Australia on charges she sexually abused girls at the orthodox Adass Israel school, is life is in immediate danger if she remains in prison. | | | | It's not the usual suspects of rising energy costs, tolls or petrol that are hitting the hip-pockets of New South Wales voters the hardest. Take a look at what expenses are chewing up the household income. | | | | The crossbench was not serving the interest of most Australians when it sought amendments to the provisions for default insurance in the Coalition's super bill, writes Brendan Coates. | | | | The Australian Dietary Guidelines recommend we eat a small handful of nuts each day— but many of us know nuts are high in calories and fat, write Elizabeth Neale, Sze-Yen Tan and Yasmine Probst. So should we be eating nuts or will they make us gain weight? | | | | Their countries might technically be still at war, but the doctors and nurses working with North Koreans to fight a deadly strain of tuberculosis nicknamed the "contagious cancer" have achieved remarkable results. | | | | Documents obtained by the ABC reveal Brisbane law firm AJ & Co proposed an aggressive strategy for mining giant Adani to shut down critics and pressure the Queensland Government to bring the Carmichael mine to life. | | | | The FFA's decision to parachute in a coach with no experience in the elite women's game and lead the Matildas is raising eyebrows, writes Patrick Galloway. | | | | Thirty-seven new trees of the endangered macadamia jansenii species have been found, a significant discovery since previously it was believed that only 90 of the trees existed in the wild. | | | | Top bureaucrats defend the handling of a $422 million contract for security and other services on Manus Island, arguing Australia was forced to step in quickly after Papua New Guinea pulled out. | | | | Eight-year-old Anita Board was driving at more than 85 kilometres per hour in her junior dragster when she crashed into a concrete barrier, causing massive and irrecoverable brain damage, a Perth coronial inquest hears. | | | | The AFL women's league is growing ever more popular; this round drew impressive crowds at the weekend, but also its fair share of controversy, writes Kate O'Halloran. | | | | A woman who allegedly tried to stab her teenage daughter to death with a kitchen knife during a drunken confrontation on Brisbane's bayside is remanded in custody, with a magistrate describing the altercation as a "vicious and callous attack". | | | | One Labour politician leaving the party says Jeremy Corbyn and other leaders have been "complicit in facilitating Brexit", while another thinks the party has become "institutionally anti-Semitic". | | | | Nick Milligan is reeling after seeing the trailer for a big-budget film that appears to have a similar storyline to a book he published six years ago. | | | | Dutch cyber expert Victor Gevers discovers names, identification card numbers, birth dates, employers and locations all exposed for on an unsecured Chinese online database. | |  |
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By Elizabeth Neale, Sze-Yen Tan and Yasmine Probst | |  |
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