| | | | Air Marshall Leo Davis says Australia's unique geography means it's ideally placed to play a greater role in space, including more satellite launches, but concedes the country is starting a bit behind in the "space game". | | | | Over 300,000 turn out in a brilliant sea of rainbow colour as the 41st Sydney Mardi Gras parade rolled through Oxford Street on Saturday evening. | | | | On at least one measure, it looks like Australian households may have been hit by a recession late last year as the domestic economy cooled rapidly from its brisk start to 2018. | | | | Bourke, outback NSW, has not seen meaningful rain in seven years and while its 2,500 residents prepare for unprecedented water restrictions, their dire plight has helped propel environmental concerns into NSW's political spotlight. | | | | "Trailblazers" like Kelly O'Dwyer and Kate Ellis demonstrate that you can have a family and serve at the highest levels of government. But their imminent departure from politics signals that there is still a long way to go. | | | | A controversial tender to allow companies to lease land and build eco-accommodation in Queensland national parks has been subject to a perceived conflict of interest involving the chair of Tourism Queensland, Brett Godfrey, after a company partly owned by him applied for the development contracts and was shortlisted for the lucrative deal. | | | | A wave of cloud and rainfall called the Madden-Julian oscillation is one of the reasons WA's north has had drastically lower rainfall and cyclonic behaviour this summer. It's been avoiding Australia, but now it's set to return. | | | | Tensions are heating up again between the US and Russia decades since the Cold War ended, after the US abandoned a historic nuclear treaty. We explain what the treaty is, and how its demise could impact you. | | | | For Abood — who had his hand cut off by Islamic State at age 15 — the damage done by the caliphate's four-year reign of terror can't be repaired. | | | | Australian proponents of the 'right to repair' movement say the environment, consumers and small business are suffering without regulation. | | | | Consecrated virgins date back to the third century, but for more than a millennia they didn't exist. So why are modern women choosing chastity and marrying Jesus? | | | | WA's livestock owners are urged to show restraint after tensions between animal activists and producers reached new levels with two protestors charged with trespass. | | | | Australia targets flights and mail to prevent the spread of African swine fever as high-tech solutions are rolled out in China. | | | | Victorian firefighters battle a number of out-of-control bushfires burning in the Bunyip State Park and in the state's east. | | | | Australian captain Aaron finch says his side was "20 or 30 runs short" in setting India a target of 237, which the hosts reeled in in the 49th over in the first match of the five-match one-day series. | | | | Nicola Gobbo is revealed to be a willing participant in an ALP "dirt" operation that backfired on the eve of the 1996 federal election. | | | | Three fishermen travel 18km off the coast of Broome and get caught in what they thought was a small storm, but turned out to be a terrifying thunderstorm. | | | | She thought she was posing for a quick photograph during a tour of a beach in Iceland but ended up needing to be rescued when the ice on which she was sitting was pulled out into freezing waters by a wave. Luckily her son was there to take photos to share with the family, and the world. | | | | The World Bridge Federation says the world's number one bridge player has been suspended after failing a drug test. | | | | A $500,000 sports car found in a ditch in north London turns out to be owned by a bitcoin investor, who laughed off the incident as his car was towed to safety. | |  |
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