| | | | Police investigate whether a champion bodybuilder who died after an altercation with a homeowner in south-west Sydney was high on drugs and possibly entered the house by accident. | | | | Tropical Cyclone Oma will bring strong winds and heavy rain over the coming days, the Bureau of Meteorology says, warning the category two system could cross the southern Queensland coast early next week. | | | | We're being warned Severe Tropical Cyclone Oma is an "unknown quantity" and could still cross the southern Queensland coast next week. Here's what we know so far. | | | | An audit of Queensland's manufacturing stone industry reveals 98 workers contracted the potentially deadly lung disease silicosis — 15 of those terminal — with more than 550 workplace breaches in what health experts are calling a major epidemic. | | | | For women, spending time out of the workforce can erode their superannuation. Some countries have already found a way to change that and now, there is a push for carer credits to be introduced in Australia. | | | | It's an unlikely place to look, but lessons from the world of financial investing provide us with some clues as to how we can protect ourselves from the ravages of relationship breakdown, writes Andrew Robertson. | | | | Neil Prakash's lawyer Resat Davran says his client was not upset with the loss of his citizenship because he did not want to be extradited to Australia to face terrorism charges. | | | | The island of Reiono looks like a postcard, a dot of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean — but rats, introduced by humans, threaten its entire ecosystem. Now scientists are embarking on an ambitious attempt to return the island to its former state. | | | | With weeks to go until she gives birth, Meghan is in New York for her baby shower. If the tabloid press is to be believed, the Duchess of Sussex is breaking Royal rules by doing so. | | | | There was plenty of finger-waggling when ABC exposed the packaged foods filling our kids' lunchboxes, but telling parents to pick healthier foods fails to address the underlying reasons, writes Emma Beckett. | | | | Whether it is budgeting money, doing taxes or cooking a decent meal, "adulting" can be hard. One Australian council is hoping to ease the burden on young people with 'how to adult' classes. | | | | A Sydney massage therapist is the first woman in Australia to row across an ocean solo. Her journey was one of immense pain, pippi infestations and even an onboard fire, but she would do it all again — just not alone. | | | | The pro-EU politicians quitting the party describe Prime Minister Theresa May's handling of Brexit as "disastrous", and will join eight MPs from who left the opposition Labour Party to form a new centrist group. | | | | After 99 years of supporting young football enthusiasts, a small-town club is reconsidering its future as it struggles with shortage of players and aging population. | | | | A pornographic story found on computers belonging to the accused Claremont serial killer bears "striking similarities" to the alleged abduction and rape of a 17-year-old girl at Karrakatta cemetery, prosecutors allege. | | | | Most school kids can describe in detail the life cycle of butterflies — eggs hatch into caterpillars, caterpillars turn into cocoons and cocoons hatch. But, Tanya Letty asks, do they know who conclusively linked caterpillars to butterflies? | | | | It's just a dot, but after years of painstaking work astronomers have finally confirmed those precious pixels are another moon orbiting the ice giant Neptune. | | | | A north-west Queensland midwife offering free maternity photoshoots for Indigenous women in outback locations says the experience is a great confidence booster for the soon-to-be mums. | | | | A NSW prison guard is suspended without pay after being charged with six counts of sexual abuse against female inmates at a western Sydney correctional facility. | | | | Controversial British conspiracy theorist David Icke has his visa cancelled ahead of a planned national speaking tour in March. | | | | One in 10 people with a Medicare card choose to opt out of the new My Health Record digital health system, but Department of Health officials say the results are in line with expectations. | | | | Tom and Jane Teniswood own more than 220 hectares of land at Little Swanport in Tasmania but are giving half of it to the Aboriginal community in a "symbol of action". | | | | An Adelaide pilot takes workplace venting to all new heights by etching "I'm bored" into the sky. The Civil Aviation Authority says it is "uncommon but not unheard of". | |  |
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