| | | | New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces a plan to ban military-style semi-automatic weapons and assault rifles in the wake of the terrorist attack that killed 50 people in Christchurch. | | | | Hundreds of thousands of eggs are removed from the shelves of supermarkets across four states following an outbreak of salmonella cases linked to an exotic strain of the bacteria. | | | | A state of emergency is declared in the Northern Territory as Tropical Cyclone Trevor tracks across the Gulf of Carpentaria and the defence force assists with the largest mass evacuation in 40 years. | | | | Police charge an 18-year-old woman in Melbourne's north with child sex and child exploitation offences and find a baby safe at another home, after a tip-off from UK authorities. | | | | A spokesman says the Turkish President was responding to the alleged Christchurch shooter's "manifesto" and was framing it against historical attacks against the country when he threatened to send Australian and New Zealanders "back like your grandfathers" in "caskets". | | | | A woman has become the first person in Queensland to be jailed for the crime of female genital mutilation, after she took her two young daughters to Africa for the procedure. | | | | When former male AFL players join the pile-on of their female counterparts, you can see there's still a lot of work to do, writes Kate O'Halloran. | | | | Seng Moon was just 16 when she was abducted and sold off to a Chinese man who repeatedly raped her while keeping her locked in a room for two months. She was then told she was his wife. | | | | Police are investigating the death of a woman on the NSW north coast following reports she was using psychoactive tree frog secretions, known as kambo. | | | | The Christchurch tragedy is the outcome of a century of far-right ideology that reshapes its targets every decade. Kristy Campion tracks the history of intolerance and warns the threat is growing. | | | | Centenarian Anne Brokenbrow is handcuffed and driven away in a police car as part of her wish to know what it feels like to live on the wrong side of the law. | | | | The film felt "meaningless" after 9/11, its screenwriter said, revealing the plot would have seen Forrest meet more famous figures, including Princess Diana and OJ Simpson. | | | | Want to keep your sensitive health info private? Think twice before sharing it with an app, research suggests. | | | | A man who gave chase when the semi-trailer he was unloading at a NSW coal terminal started to roll away has suffered a horrific injury. | | | | They're not political animals, but the plight of the state's iconic koalas will figure in Saturday's election. This is what the major parties have in store for the great forests and koala habitats of NSW if they win. | | | | A Dalai Lama reincarnation candidate chosen by communist China is not to be trusted, the Tibetan spiritual leader warns, prompting Beijing to say his rebirth "must comply with Chinese laws and regulations". | | | | Parking in the wrong spot can be costly, but are current parking signs doing enough to help us? Take our quiz and we'll show you there's a better way. | | | | A Queensland family has been left reeling after miniature pig, Delilah, was shot dead by council officers responding to a report of a disturbance at a chicken coop. | | | | Destructive winds and a storm surge are forecast for communities along WA's Pilbara coast as Cyclone Veronica bears down after strengthening into a category four system — and the BOM says it is likely to intensify even further. | | | | Charity muggers, or "chuggers", often attract the ire of local businesses, but prove difficult to police when their tactics are so effective. | | | | International aid begins trickling into Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi to ease the humanitarian crisis created by Cyclone Idai, as the death toll climbs past 300. | |  |
By state political reporter Brigid Glanville | |  |
By Kristy Campion | |  |
By Kate O'Halloran | |  |
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