| | | | In a tense interview with Waleed Aly, Scott Morrison categorically denies a plan to exploit concerns about Muslim migration for political gain, insisting instead that he sought to confront them. | | | | Since building its first house in 1957, Zuccala Homes has seen its fair share of highs and lows in Melbourne's residential construction market — and director Greg Zuccala says this housing downturn is one of the worst he has seen. | | | | When John Young claimed in 2013 to have found an elusive bird that had not been seen in more than a century, he became a hero among bird watchers, but his latest fieldwork has been found to be unreliable. | | | | It has been one week since 50 people were killed during Friday prayers in Christchurch. Today, thousands will gather at a park near the Al Noor mosque to honour those killed and protect those left behind. | | | | The claim that public funding includes an expectation that every public hospital will provide every available procedure is little more than a slogan, especially on abortion, writes Bernadette Tobin | | | | Thailand is about to leave military rule for democracy for the first time in five years. Here's what you need to know about the upcoming Thai election and the contenders who could determine the country's future. | | | | As Melbourne Design Week draws to a close this weekend, we look at some of the most exciting solutions to the problems facing the rapidly expanding city. | | | | Vanuatu signals it plans to become the first nation on Earth to ban disposable nappies by the end of this year, and now it's scrambling to find an alternative. | | | | Australians still living with the effects of one of the world's worst pharmaceutical disasters will hear what their future holds in a senate inquiry report today, as Opposition Leader Bill Shorten pledges to give a national apology. | | | | The majority of human genetic research has focused on people of European ancestry, leaving a gaping hole in our understanding of human disease and potential treatments, experts say. | | | | 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. | | | | The star defender's season-ending injury, and the sanguine manner in which he accepted his fate, were the talking points of an AFL season-opener akin to mixing a fine aged Scotch with dishwater, writes Richard Hinds. | | | | Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen touches down in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, kicking off a state visit designed to shore up Taipei's allies in the region. | | | | Precious items are being packed into utes in the Gulf of Carpentaria town of Borroloola as residents flee Cyclone Trevor. If the cyclone tracks on the path that is predicted, it could slam into the town at full force as a category four storm system on Saturday. | | | | 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 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. | | | | Damaging winds, destructive storm tides and major flooding are forecast for WA's Pilbara coast as Cyclone Veronica bears down as a category four severe tropical storm — and it's set to intensify even further. | | | | New Zealand is banning military-style semi-automatic weapons and assault rifles. Here's how its laws will compare to Australia's after the changes. | | | | 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. | | | | 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. | | | | The chairman of the Anti-Defamation Commission has called for the cancellation of a string of upcoming Australian shows by former Pantera frontman Philip Anselmo over his "neo-Nazi and antisemitic sentiments". | | | | Labor's rollback of tax breaks for property investors would force property prices down and see landlords jack up rents to recoup their losses, according to SQM Research. | | | | 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 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. | |  |
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