| | | | No bank escaped with a glowing assessment in Kenneth Hayne's final royal commission report, but the smallest of Australia's "big four" has been singled out for the performance of its leaders during the hearings. | | | | The unethical practice of charging "fees for no service" will end, mortgage brokers may lose the incentives that drive many of them, dodgy car loan and worthless funeral insurance purveyors will be pushed out, and compensation will be offered to victims of unscrupulous banks. | | | | A monsoon trough that is refusing to budge and a static tropical low dragging moist air down from the equator are combining to create an unprecedented rainfall event for the north Queensland coast, which is far from over. | | | | The unprecedented rain event in Townsville causes the north Queensland city's Ross River Dam to reach more than 200 per cent capacity, but how is this possible? | | | | A year after leaving Manus Island, Helal Uddin has good reason to want to go back. He's not alone, with a number of men relocated from the island struggling to adjust to life on the outside. | | | | When a fire started burning near the Great Lake Hotel on Tasmania's Central Plateau, owner Kaylee Hattinger decided to stay, sharing updates with her captivated social media audience. | | | | For anyone who can't seem to make a dent in the day, or a to-do list with more items than an online shopping cart—these time management hacks might help. | | | | Fighter pilots painted her on their bomber planes. Young girls played with her paper doll cut outs. But when the men came home from WW2, strong female leads like Miss Fury became seen as a threat, writes Camilla Nelson. | | | | While careful, considered and in many ways cautious, Justice Kenneth Hayne's 950-plus pages of findings are a manifesto for political action, composed safely in the knowledge that his recommendations will be ignored at some peril, writes Greg Jennett. | | | | A new 3D map of the Milky Way created by studying 1,339 stars shows for the first time our home galaxy is not only warped but twisted into an "S-shape", say astronomers. | | | | A discarded cigarette likely ignited combustible materials stored on a balcony of the Spencer Street high-rise, resulting in a fire that raced five storeys up the building and has left residents locked out until at least Wednesday. | | | | Smelly, dirty water in the rural NSW town of Yass is an unsolved $11 million problem — sparking a Facebook complaint group, a crowdfunding account and now, a song. | | | | New guidelines from the American Psychological Association say "traditional masculinity" can hurt boys and men. Is it time for Australia to adopt a similar approach? | | | | The former Liberal MP says she is not prepared to get into a slanging match about who was responsible for alleged bullying and intimidation within the party during the leadership turmoil which toppled Malcolm Turnbull as leader. | | | | The underlying strategy of the Government remains to hold on as long as possible before going to the polls. But as is always the case in politics, there are some possible problems, writes Laura Tingle. | | | | Rather than a radical overhaul or a massive restructure of the system, the royal commission has taken aim at exactly where it will hurt our major financiers. But the pain won't stop there, writes Ian Verrender. | | | | The latest moves from the EU come amid an impending humanitarian crisis that the US, Spain and Germany have started to respond to. | | | | Shahad's father beat her constantly but when she complained to her mother, he beat them both. She says her only option was to risk her life and escape Saudi Arabia. | |  |
By national affairs correspondent Greg Jennett | |  |
By Camilla Nelson | |  |
By Laura Tingle | |  |
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