| | | | New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern takes Facebook to task for failing to remove graphic vision of the Christchurch shootings from its platforms, while vowing to "give the gunman nothing, not even his name". | | | | Sydney and Melbourne are recording one of their fastest property price slumps on record, with official figures showing the downturn is spreading to other cities around the nation. | | | | Australian Indigenous artists say a "fake" piece of Aboriginal art featured in Ricky Gervais's new Netflix series amounts to the "stealing" of their culture. | | | | A quarterly survey by consumer group Choice finds the cost of private health insurance has overtaken electricity bills as the biggest household spending worry, as the insurance industry prepares for its biggest changes for decades. | | | | The Prime Minister wants G20 leaders to work with technology companies to do more to prevent violent videos being streamed online in the wake of footage of the Christchurch mosques massacre being shared on Facebook. | | | | I wasn't shocked by the Christchurch massacre. For the past three years, I've worked at Sky News and watched the fear and hatred towards Muslims like me grow, writes Rashna Farrukh. | | | | A driver who crashed her car on a busy Canberra road and ran from the scene, without checking on the son of the ACT's former opposition leader who had been thrown from her vehicle, is jailed for five years. | | | | The 17-year-old will not be making a complaint against the far-right senator for striking him twice in the head, or against bystanders who tackled him to the ground and restrained him in a chokehold, his lawyer says. | | | | It is the first time three cities have shared the unenviable title, according to The Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) 2019 Worldwide Cost of Living Survey. | | | | A Brisbane woman who stabbed her husband to death because she was "angry and annoyed" that he had got home late from work, is sentenced to nine years in prison for manslaughter. | | | | The community of Lockhart River is in lockdown as Severe Tropical Cyclone Trevor heads towards the Queensland coast as a category three storm with a "very destructive core". The cyclone started making landfall about 4:00pm. | | | | I have seen two cases in my career where backyard burial of a dead pet has gone terribly wrong, writes Rachel Allavena. | | | | A massive fish has been found washed ashore near the mouth of the Murray River in South Australia, and one expert believes it is a Mola mola sunfish. | | | | Thousands of covert recordings of Keli Lane captured by NSW Police during its decade-long investigation into the convicted baby killer were never disclosed in her 2010 murder trial. | | | | Do I say my son is autistic or has autism? Should I correct someone if they say it in a way I don't like? Words matter when it comes to autism and the best option is to ask, writes Fiona Churchman. | | | | Westpac flags redundancies as it offloads its loss-making advice business in the wake of the banking royal commission, with the market shifting towards independent financial advice. | | | | In the late 1990s, Art Van Zee noticed reports of addictions to a powerful new prescription painkiller, OxyContin. Now, his town's humble community medical centre has become an unlikely rallying point for legal action against the manufacturer — and it could be the biggest class action America has ever seen. | | | | China's censorship apparatus is so efficient that sensitive social media posts are culled within minutes, but for some reason the New Zealand shooting videos were left up for nearly two days as state media slammed security in "the West". Why? | | | | The US President, widely slammed for his anti-Muslim rhetoric, is on the defensive after posting a string of tweets supporting a Fox News host accused of Islamophobia. | | | | Former AFL ruckman John Barnes says the league has its head in the sand over concussions, as the now 49-year-old — who has epilepsy and memory loss — joins a planned class action seeking compensation. | | | | My husband is a survivor of clerical abuse, but in the countless hours I've spent in waiting rooms, not one doctor has asked if my son and I are okay, writes Winnie Mulherin. | | | | An explosion packing 10 times the energy released by the Hiroshima nuclear bomb is detected as a meteor hits the atmosphere just 25 kilometres above the planet, but the blast goes largely unnoticed because it takes place over the Bering Sea, off Russia. | |  |
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