| | | | Few leaders have been tested like Jacinda Ardern, but from cries of baby brain to the unthinkable tragedy of Christchurch, she is yet to put a foot wrong, writes Annabel Crabb. | | | | In a powerful display of unity, a group of teenaged boys has performed a haka to show their support to Christchurch's Muslim community after Friday's shooting. | | | | Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says gun law reforms will be announced in 10 days following a Cabinet meeting on the country's gun laws and security in the wake of the Christchurch shootings. | | | | Counter-terror police search two houses on the NSW mid-north coast as part of the investigation into Friday's mosque shootings, including the home of the sister of accused gunman Brenton Tarrant. | | | | Queensland senator Fraser Anning doubles down on the extreme anti-immigration views he espoused in a series of offensive tweets about the Christchurch terror attack. | | | | The Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party deletes a "racist" tweet in which Upper House MP Wes Fang — who has Singaporean heritage — is compared to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. | | | | Fresh evidence will be presented to an inquiry starting today, suggesting that — on medical grounds at least — there is a strong case that Kathleen Folbigg was wrongly convicted of killing all four of her children. | | | | A crash involving 20 cars and a bus is causing traffic chaos southbound on the Centenary Motorway at Jindalee in Brisbane's west. | | | | When Australian transport authorities realised they were being played by Uber, they fought back, using fake names, multiple phones and credit cards in a sting operation to dodge the rideshare giant's spyware. | | | | The parched landscape of outback South Australia is being rejuvenated by floodwaters flowing from the Channel Country towards Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre. | | | | A "drained" Daniel Ricciardo capped off a weekend from hell at the Australian Grand Prix at Albert Park in Melbourne by suggesting a BBC reporter should "shut the f*** up" while being interviewed post-race. | | | | A Canberra police officer who struck the car of a woman while he was responding to an emergency incident pleads guilty to charges laid over her death. | | | | Dick Dale, who became known as "king of the surf guitar" with a twangy rapid-fire, reverb-heavy sound that became synonymous with the film Pulp Fiction, dies at the age of 81 after bouts of cancer and diabetes. | | | | Having major goals and working hard to achieve them has always been seen as a good thing. But what if they actually get in the way of your happiness, and leave you feeling like a failure? | | | | A skydiver remains in hospital with injuries to his hip and buttocks after crash landing south of Darwin over the weekend. | | | | Fewer cars, less congestion, less pollution. It's a tantalising prospect, but would a fare-free city actually work? Luxembourg is about to take the idea for a test drive. | | | | Snowtown serial killer Robert Joe Wagner complains about the media getting access to a handwritten parole period application letter and restrictions on his mail and visitors, during a hearing in South Australia's Supreme Court. | | | | Five Point Four, which had a mammoth social media following and counted international rugby and UFC stars among its customers, goes into voluntary administration, leaving thousands of customers without meal deliveries. | | | | As Josh Frydenberg gets ready to announce the first budget surplus in more than a decade, both parties are again promising income tax cuts that could shut off a valuable source of revenue and create a structural budget problem for years to come, writes Ian Verrender. | | | | A Brisbane court is told accused killer Robert Graham Thomas strangled the mother of two, then raided her bank account and booked return flights to the Philippines. | | | | Tropical Cyclone Trevor is expected to intensify to a category three system before it crosses Queensland's Cape York Peninsula on Tuesday night, as more storms lash the south-east of the state this afternoon. | | | | Dominic Thiem comes from behind at Indian Wells to deny Roger Federer a 101st singles title, while unheralded Canadian wildcard Bianca Andreescu stuns Angelique Kerber in the women's final. | | | | In 2019, the question "what is pornography?" doesn't have an easy answer. So we set out to define it, write Sarah Ashton and Maggie Kirkman. | | | | From conjoined twins to healthy toddlers, Bhutanese twins Nima and Dawa are starting life afresh as individuals in their Himalayan homeland. It's all thanks to an army of Australians who worked towards making their separation a success. | |  |
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