| | | | Hundreds of Townsville residents start to return to their flood-ravaged homes to find a big clean-up ahead, as muddy tiles, soggy skirting boards and damp furniture bathe in the humid stale air in the north Queensland city. | | | | A family hailed as "true heroes" take more than 60 flood-stricken people and their pets into their two-storey home as they waited to be rescued from rising floodwaters in Townsville. | | | | National Australia Bank's boss Andrew Thorburn tells The Business he does not know if he will still be in the job by Friday, following the savaging he copped in the banking royal commission's final report. | | | | A court hears a South Australian man accused of abducting and raping a young European backpacker held her captive for two days by chaining her up in an "old, dirty pig shed". | | | | Australian record labels join a push to make sites that let you download audio files from YouTube inaccessible in Australia, saying they facilitate copyright infringement. | | | | Today kicks off a five-day streak of temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius for the first time in five years, and the temperature won't settle down until next week at the earliest. | | | | Right now, Townsville is more or less underwater and large parts of Tasmania are on fire. But once the world looks away, there's the question of who will pay the bill. | | | | You've probably never heard the name Lenny Skutnik, but his heroic deed set a precedent that presidents still follow today. | | | | Eighteen months ago, riding a wave of success, comic Hannah Gadsby shocked the world of comedy by retiring. Now she has announced a new show. | | | | With Europe increasingly worried about Washington-Moscow tensions, North Korea's nuclear weapons program and Iran's ballistic missile capabilities, France tests its capability to launch an airborne nuclear strike. | | | | Landlords are again being urged to test rentals for traces of ice after a NSW tenant fell ill and had to have her belongings buried at a tip. | | | | The case of a McDonald's worker who broke her leg during a rooftop smoko could end up having far-reaching implications for workers whose bosses make them turn up before their official clocking-on time. | | | | Scientists in New Zealand say they've found a USB stick containing holiday photos inside a frozen slab of seal poo — and it's in good condition, considering where it's come from. | | | | As the 2020 election campaign lurches into gear, the Trump administration is facing its biggest challenges yet, writes James Glenday. | | | | China's annual New Year's gala is meant to usher in the Year of the Pig, but the state broadcaster largely censored all words and images related to pigs during the biggest TV show of the year last night. | | | | August Ames found herself the target of a Twitter storm. A day later, she was dead. But there's more to this story than "cyber-bullying". | | | | It doesn't look like populism is going anywhere, so it's important to know how to recognise it and to understand how its presence can shape our democracies, for better or worse, write Octavia Bryant and Benjamin Moffitt. | | | | A recreational fisher on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula has a pearler of a yarn to tell after making a remarkable find inside a shellfish not usually associated with the treasured item. | | | | An 89-year-old Melbourne man who fired a double-barrelled shotgun at a sex worker who rejected him, has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in jail. | | | | Two Russians are arrested after a video showing a man swinging a baby in the air goes viral on Malaysian social media, according to local reports. | | | | French police arrest a woman over a Paris apartment fire that killed at least 10 people and injured dozens more, sending residents fleeing to the roof or climbing out of windows to escape. | |  |
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By Octavia Bryant and Benjamin Moffitt | |  |
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