| | | | Australian coal producers suffer another savage hit, with Chinese authorities placing an indefinite ban on imports ahead of a strict new regime of quotas. | | | | Bridie McKim says she has her old Brisbane drama teacher to thank for giving her the confidence to become an actor. Now the 21-year-old, who has cerebral palsy, has a starring role in the new ABC drama The Heights. | | | | First your details are shared, then the abuse begins. And victims say the law is powerless to help them. | | | | A cyclone watch for the southern Queensland and northern New South Wales coast is cancelled as Tropical Cyclone Oma weakens to a category one system. | | | | A criminal syndicate from North Korea or Russia has hacked and scrambled 15,000 patients' medical files from a Melbourne hospital. This is how worried you should be, writes Elise Thomas. | | | | Peter Tork, who sang as well as played bass and keyboard for the 1960s rock quartet marketed as the American answer to The Beatles, dies a decade after being diagnosed with a rare cancer of the salivary glands. | | | | Australian writer Tony McNamara says any concern about his use of c-bombs and racy language in The Favourite's script was worth the risk, because period films "can be too polite". Warning: this article discusses explicit language. | | | | In carving her own path to the top of the political game, Julie Bishop has learned to be as bold, confident and skilful as anyone in Parliament — traits all on display in a cutting final speech, writes Annabel Crabb. | | | | Fewer young people are buying homes, but was the Shadow Treasurer right to claim that ownership rates have "spiralled downwards"? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates. | | | | Police say the actor turned himself in after being accused of lying about being attacked and beaten by two masked men shouting racist and homophobic slurs. | | | | Labor says victims of banking misconduct will be eligible for up to four times more compensation than they do presently, and have a second chance to argue their cases, if it wins the election. | | | | Attorney-General Christian Porter defends criticism of what Labor describes as an "extraordinary" number of Coalition figures sitting among 34 new appointments to Administrative Appeals Tribunal. | | | | Four months since the Prime Minister unveiled a veterans' card and lapel pin, no business is yet to officially sign up to the discount program. | | | | CEOs of Australia's largest companies are hearing the message and realising that on issues like climate change the need to act is not just a moral one. | | | | The Westpac class action offers the bank's customers hope of compensation for losses from home loans they say they shouldn't have been given, but you and I, their fellow taxpayers, will foot much of the legal bill. | | | | The fact the commencement of the Super Rugby season has largely gone unnoticed shows just how much rugby union is struggling in the competitive Australian sporting landscape, writes Richard Hinds. | | | | The Queensland Government defends giving almost $3.5 million of taxpayer dollars to the controversial Great Barrier Reef Foundation, including more than $100,000 for a smartphone app that is yet to be delivered. | | | | An alarming number of natural disaster victims turn to high-cost, short-finance — or pay day loans — to avoid going broke, financial counsellors say. | | | | Google leads technological efforts to make the globe available at our fingertips, but there are a number of parties who want to swat prying eyes away. | | | | Dairy farmer and Norco-Coles supplier Paul Weir refuses to continue supplying the supermarket giant that has not followed Woolworths' decision to dump $1 milk. | | | | How many subscriptions do you have? If you look at your bank statement, it might be more than you think. We're signed up for everything from toothbrushes to TV — and it's worth billions to businesses. | | | | Gladys Berejiklian is being called upon to apologise after being accused of treating a journalist with "contempt" during a terse exchange in Newcastle. | | | | Insect detectives have rediscovered the world's largest bee while on expedition on a remote Indonesian Island, 38 years after it was last officially recorded. | | | | Victoria Police loses its latest bid to suppress the identity of Informer 3838, the lawyer whose role as a police informant at the height of Melbourne's gangland war sparked a royal commission. | |  |
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