| | | | A man dies and another is critically injured after scaffolding and concrete collapse at a high-rise residential building site in Sydney's north-west. | | | | When the federal election arrives voters will farewell some longstanding familiar faces who take with them decades of parliamentary experience. Here's what we know so far. | | | | Two Chinese fighter jets cross a maritime border separating the two sides in the Taiwan Strait for the first time in eight years, a move Taiwan slams as "reckless and provocative". | | | | Woolworths will close 16 per cent of its loss-making Big W stores over the next three years as well as two distribution centres in regional Queensland and South Australia. | | | | Balkan governments are investigating why Brenton Tarrant visited Bulgaria in 2016 and 2018 — but one former security boss says there are "gaps" in the system that will keep them from answers. | | | | A Perth motorist who was tasered by a police officer while sitting in his car after being issued with a vehicle defect notice becomes emotional while testifying in court, denying he was "being a bit of a smart arse" at the time of the incident. | | | | It was a grand final that broke records for women's sport, but for one player in particular Sunday's game was a bittersweet case of a lifelong dream realised, writes Kate O'Halloran. | | | | Hunters find 21-year-old Samantha Josephson's body in secluded woodland the day after she got into a black Chevrolet Impala, mistakenly thinking it was an Uber she had ordered. | | | | A Vietnamese woman is expected to be out of jail next month after being sentenced to more than three years in prison for fatally smearing a nerve agent on the face of Kim Jong-un's estranged half brother at a Malaysian airport in 2017. | | | | This was not a political rally or a white supremacist meeting; it was a public event attended by families. But one of the cars featured a swastika. | | | | A Sydney magistrate slams the "disgraceful waste problem of affluent Sydney" after a frail homeless man was run over and killed by a garbage truck driver who mistook him for a discarded blanket. | | | | It's a core human desire to understand where we come from but an ancestry DNA test might be less helpful than you think, writes Caitlin Curtis. | | | | A Labor-dominated Senate committee has been examining the ABC since the board sacked managing director Michelle Guthrie, but Coalition senators insists interference is not happening. | | | | Australian housing prices have fallen at a slightly slower rate in the last four months, but the downturn has become more geographically widespread, according to CoreLogic. | | | | One of Australia's flagship mental health programs is failing people with complex mental illness, researchers say. | | | | Japanese zippers have dominated the industry for decades. But there's a growing threat from China, writes Francois Leveque. | | | | Concussion symptoms force Western Bulldogs fan favourite Liam Picken into an early retirement after a career highlighted by his performance in the club's 2016 premiership win. | | | | ATO figures show the amount of tax credits has risen, reigniting calls by some for a 10 per cent royalty to replace the petroleum resource rent tax (PPRT). | | | | Blue Planet Live viewers were given an unplanned lesson about the Heron Island food chain during a broadcast documenting the struggle of turtle hatchlings trying to make it out to sea. | | | | The rapper's haunting final tweet was posted minutes before he was fatally gunned down outside his clothing store in Los Angeles. | | | | The surviving children of Australia's most notorious IS convert, Khaled Sharrouf, have escaped the last brutal battle against the terrorist organisation in Syria and are being held in a refugee camp in the country's north, as their Australian grandmother pleads for help to bring them home. | | | | Pronunciation has the power to bring us together or tear us apart. But luckily for our journalists and presenters, the ABC has a handy guide on how to say tricky names, places and terms you don't typically find in the dictionary. Let's see how your pronunciation compares. | | | | The Government insists Australia is on track to meet its Paris target by 2030, but the Government's own data tells a different story. | |  |
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