| | | | The Australian gun lobby is as large and spends as much on political donations and campaigns, per capita, as America's powerful NRA, and is mimicking its political strategies to water down gun laws, according to a new report. | | | | Two undercover reporters hired by Al-Jazeera to investigate America's most powerful gun lobby group spent more than two years accumulating hundreds of hours of hidden camera footage, writes executive producer Peter Charley. | | | | Austrian authorities search the home of a prominent far-right activist in Vienna as part of an investigation into his ties to the alleged Christchurch mosque gunman Brenton Tarrant, who is known to have visited the country. | | | | Some Australian schools have started using a new tertiary training model that allows prospective teachers to skip attending a university, instead giving them "hands-on" in-classroom experience as paid employees. But universities warn the program wasn't successful overseas. | | | | With the so-called Islamic State group on the brink of collapse, the head of the secretive Australian Signals Directorate will today reveal how Australian operatives working from the other side of the globe helped to defeat the terrorists. | | | | Health experts warn a weight-loss trial for obese teenagers could trigger eating disorders among participants, who are at times limited to only one quarter of their daily recommended energy intake. | | | | The family of a young man killed in a Newcastle brawl in 2005 is calling for police to reinvestigate the case, and for the man convicted of the murder to be released from detention. | | | | High-profile federal independent candidate Rob Oakeshott says his identity was stolen on Instagram in an act of political interference, with a fake account soliciting political donations. | | | | Us was always going to be compared to Jordan Peele's stunning debut film, and as Jason Di Rosso writes, this newest offering is a more conventional exercise in cat-and-mouse horror. | | | | Attorneys for US actor Jussie Smollett say charges alleging he lied to police about a racist and homophobic attack have been dropped. | | | | The head of Victoria Police's human source unit will be quizzed on the force's use of Nicola Gobbo, also known as Lawyer X, as the royal commission begins its first round of public hearings. | | | | Indonesia's most notorious terror suspect, Hambali, languishes in Guantanamo Bay because facing trial in the US or at home could expose CIA torture tactics, his lawyer says. | | | | As a drone delivery service prepares to begin operation in Canberra, the Civil Aviation Safety Authority commits to enforcing licences for any Australian using a drone. | | | | The Clarence Valley Council puts forward an idea of a memorial to Christchurch victims, winning majority support of councillors and the national imam's council. | | | | Senior One Nation staffers say they had "a few drinks" before falling victim to a "secret agent" from the Middle East, after recordings reveal they wanted millions of dollars in political donations from US gun lobby groups. | | | | Dozens of Australian news organisations and journalists face possible "orders for imprisonment" or fines for alleged contempt of court over their coverage of Cardinal George Pell's conviction for child sexual abuse. | | | | The cricket world is divided over the sensational Mankad dismissal in the Indian Premier League, with Shane Warne and Mitchell Johnson sitting in opposing camps. | | | | While fallen trees may be a fascinating sight, they could be more dangerous than they look. Here's what causes them to spring back upright, and what you should do if you see a fallen tree. | | | | It is a distinctly modern frustration — watching a performer on stage, only to have your view blocked by outstretched arms holding phones in the air. Hannah Gadsby is among those to adopt a simple solution. | | | | The two children of Gregory Johnston — accused of murdering their mother on their WA farm — describe how his accounts of the incident varied over time as an attempt to "protect" them from what happened. | | | | For the first time in history, two women were schedule to conduct a spacewalk together, but NASA was forced to scrap the plans when it discovered only one of the women could have a spacesuit that fit her. | |  |
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